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THOMAS BARLOW WALKER, one
of the greatest lumbermen the country has ever produced, was
born in Xenia, Ohio, Feb. 1, 1840, a son of Platt B. and
Anstic Keziah (Barlow) Walker. He taught school
for time as a young man, later becoming a traveling salesman
before he located in Minnesota in 1862 at the age of
twenty-two. He was first engaged in that state on
government surveys and later as surveyor for the St. Paul &
Duluth Railroad. During this time he began
investigating in timber lands and eventually became the
largest lumberman in Minnesota. He is also heavily
interested in California white and sugar pine land. He
was a projector and builder of the St. Louis Park and the
electric line to it; built the central city market and the
wholesale commission district. He was the originator
and builders of the Minneapolis public library and was
president of the library board for thirty years. He is
responsible for the building up of the State Academy of
Science and its museum of science and art. He has a
splendid collection of paintings that fills the large art
gallery of the public library and also an extensive
collection of ancient arts in the museum room of the
library. Attached to his home is the only free art
gallery that is to be found in either America or Europe.
His home in Minneapolis is at 807 Hennepin avenue.
(Source: History of Greene County, Ohio, its
people, industries & institutions by Hon. M. A. Broadstone,
Editor in Chief - Vol. I.- Publ. 1918 by B. F. Bowen &
Company, Inc., Indianapolis, Ind.) |
BENJAMIN
WHITEMAN was a native of Philadelphia, born on March
12, 1769. When he was only a boy, he removed with his
parents to Kentucky where he received some very valuable
frontiersman experience. He was a member of General
Harmar's expedition against the Shawnees and this trip
up here undoubtedly influenced him to before a resident of
this region later. He was married to Catherine
Davis, a daughter of Owen Davis, in 1793. In
the spring of 1799 he with his father-in-law came
northward from Cincinnati and settled on Bever creek.
After Greene county was organized, the General Assembly in
the same year appointed Whiteman one of the three
associate judges along with William Maxwell and
James Barrett. He remained a resident of
Beavercreek township until 1805 when he, with his
father-in-law, Owen Davis, removed to the vicinity of
Clifton after disposing of their possessions on Beaver
Creek. There Whitman built a large house which
is standing to this day. His death occurred on July 1,
1852.
(Source: History of Greene County, Ohio, its
people, industries & institutions by Hon. M. A. Broadstone,
Editor in Chief - Vol. I.- Publ. 1918 by B. F. Bowen &
Company, Inc., Indianapolis, Ind.) |
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