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Walker, James (1819-1889)

Name:
Walker, James (1819-1889)
Title:
Instructor, Military College, Tampico, Mexico
Born:
06/03/1819
Birthplace:
Northamptonshire, England
Died:
08/29/1889
Death Location:
Watsonville, CA
Residence:
East Greenbush, NY 1824-
Tampico, Mexico 1841-1846
Mexico City, Mexico 1846-1848
New York, NY 1848, 1850, 1870, 1875
New Orleans, LA
South America
Washington, DC 1857-1858, 1862, 1883
Elizabeth, NJ 1880
San Francisco, CA 1876, 1884-1889
Nationality:
English
Occupation:
Artist
Historical painter
Teacher
Father:
Walker, James
Mother:
, Ann
Spouse:
Mary Elizabeth Beatty (1828-1909), December 25, 1857
Children:
Thomas
Notes:
Larry Curry, The American West: Painters from Catlin to Russell. (Los Angeles, California: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1972), 29-30, 45, 198.

Marian R. McNaughton, "James Walker-Combat Artist of Two American Wars," Military Collector & Historian, 9(Summer 1957), 31-35.

Rolin C. Watkins, Editor. History of Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties, California: Cradle of California's History and Romance... Volume II. (Chicago, Illinois: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1925),

"Obituary," New York Herald, New York, NY, September 7, 1889.
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