William Devereux Walker died at the Hotel Rexford, Boston, Nov. 2, 1907. He was born in the village of Hanover, Aug. 5, 1844, being the son of Cyrus B. and Harriet A. Walker. After leaving college he went to California, and taught for some years at Petaluma. Watsonville, and Monterey. About 1870 he went to Kansas City, Mo., where he was connected with a weekly newspaper. From 1874 to 1878 he was in New Hampshire, at first doing newspaper work in Concord, and then living at his old home in Hanover, where he was agent of the Associated Press. In 1878 he returned to California, and was connected successively with the Alta California and the Eveniny Post, San Francisco dailies, and was then from 1887 engaged in real estate business in that city. In 1898 he returned to Hanover, and lived at the old homestead until its sale, a year since. Since last June he had been living in Boston. He was married Dec. 23, 1879, to Margaret J. Hall of San Francisco, who survives him, and lives in that city. They have two sons, Shirley and Harold T., both living in San Francisco, the elder of whom is a graduate of the University of California in the class of 1902.
Secretary, Rev. Henry I. Cushman, 26 Pitman St., Providence, R. I.