Bio: Walker, William W. (1862 - 19??)

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Surnames: Walker, Morrow

----Source: History of Marathon County Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, by Louis Marchetti, 1913.

Walker, William W. (1862 - 19??)

William W. Walker, proprietor of the Wausau Monumental Works at No. 1204 Grand avenue, Wausau, is a thoroughly experienced man in his line, in which he has been a continuous worker since he was sixteen years of age. He was born in 1862, at Belfast, Maine, but was reared at Brookville. His father, R. P. Walker, was a granite cutter and did contracting for many years all along the Atlantic coast and did much of the granite work on the great East River Bridge.

Under his father William W. Walker learned his trade and before coming westward, worked all over New England and in other section's. In 1887 he reached St. Cloud, Minn., where he worked for some time at his trade and then visited other points and was employed in the construction of the Auditorium hotel and theater, one of the notable buildings of Chicago, and was so engaged from its beginning until its completion. The Wausau Monumental Works were started here by Edward Smith, from whom Mr. Walker bought first a half interest and afterward the other half and has been proprietor for six years. He employs two men as granite cutters and his plant is equipped with the proper machinery to do all kinds of monumental and granite work.

Mr. Walker married Miss Annette Morrow and they have two children: Isabelle and J. Gordon. Mr. Walker is not active in politics, being more interested in business, and he is fraternally identified with the Masons, Odd Fellows and the Beavers.