Harry Howard Walker

Harry Howard Walker & Grace Louise Barron, whose house stood where the present-day post office is located.  She & husband  Frank built the ir house at 18 E. Mechanic Street circa 1928.

RECORD:

1. United States Census, 1920, Census Place: Shelbyville Ward 1, Shelby, Indiana; Roll: T625_465; Page: 1B; Enumeration Di.

• "Name: Harry H Walker [Harm W Walter]
• Age: 59
• Birth Year: abt 1861
• Birthplace: Indiana
• Home in 1920: Shelbyville Ward 1, Shelby, Indiana
• Race: White
• Gender: Male
• Relation to Head of House: Head
• Marital Status: Married
• Spouse's Name: Grace Walker
• Father's Birthplace: Indiana
• Mother's Birthplace: Indiana
• Home Owned: Own
• Able to Read: Yes
• Able to Write: Yes
• Neighbors: View others on page
• Household Members: Name Age
• Harry H Walker 59
• Grace Walker 48
• George Walker 26
• Elizabeth Barron."

2. United States Census, 1910, Census Place: Shelbyville Ward 1, Shelby, Indiana; Roll: T624_379; Page: 15A; Enumeration D.

* "Name: Herry Walker

• [Henry Walker]
• Age in 1910: 48
• Birth Year: 1862
• Birthplace: Indiana
• Home in 1910: Shelbyville Ward 1, Shelby, Indiana
• Race: White
• Gender: Male
• Relation to Head of House: Head
• Marital Status: Widowed
• [Married]
• Spouse's Name: Gracie J Walker
• Father's Birthplace: Indiana
• Mother's Birthplace: Wisconsin
• Neighbors: View others on page
• Household Members: Name Age
• Herry Walker 48
• Gracie J Walker 39
• [34]
• Ruith E Walker 13
• George M Walker 9."

3. United States Census, 1900, Census Place: Addison, Shelby, Indiana; Roll: T623_402; Page: 13B; Enumeration District: 10.

"* Name: Harry H Walker 

• Age: 39
• Birth Date: Jul 1860
• Birthplace: Indiana
• Home in 1900: Addison, Shelby, Indiana
• [Shelbyville, Shelby, Indiana]
• Race: White
• Gender: Male
• Relation to Head of House: Head
• Marital Status: Married
• Spouse's Name: Grace D Walker
• Marriage Year: 1892
• Years Married: 8
• Father's Birthplace: Indiana
• Mother's Birthplace: Indiana
• Occupation: View on Image
• Neighbors: View others on page
• Household Members: Name Age
• Harry H Walker 39
• Grace D Walker 29
• George M Walker 6
• Ruth E Walker 3."

4. United States Census, 1930, Census Place: Shelbyville, Shelby, Indiana; Roll: 628; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 1;.

• "Name: Harry H Walker
• Birth Year: abt 1861
• Birthplace: Indiana
• Home in 1930: Shelbyville, Shelby, Indiana
• View Map
• Relation to Head of House: Head
• Spouse's Name: Grace Walker
• Occupation:
• Education:
• Military Service:
• Rent/home value:
• Age at first marriage:
• Parents' birthplace: View image
• Neighbors: View others on page
• Household Members: Name Age
• Harry H Walker 69
• Grace Walker 58."

5. Charles Roll, A.M, INDIANA ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1931, Vol. 3, . "

  Harry H. Walker, whose ancestors came to Shelby County and took up Government land more than a century ago, has spent most of his life in commercial affairs and is president and founder of the Walker Wholesale Grocery Company of Shelbyville.

This very progressive and prosperous institution was organized in 1912. Closely associated with Mr. Walker at that time was his son. The firm was incorporated in 1917. The business organization has a fine reputation among the larger houses over the country and has built up a splendid business in its normal territory, comprising about six counties around Shelbyville. The company had a modern new building, with fireproof warehouse, affording over 27,000 square feet of floor space. Twelve persons are employed in the business, on the inside and outside, and a fleet of motor trucks are used for deliveries to the retail stores in Shelbyville.
Mr. Walker was born in Shelby County, July 24, 1860. His grandfather, Francis C. Walker, was born in New York State, of Scotch ancestry, a son of Francis Walker, Sr., who came to America with his brother shortly after the close of the Revolutionary war. His brother settled in Pennsylvania. Francis C. Walker came to Indiana in 1820 and settled on a tract of Government land in section 13 of Addison Township, Shelby County, and the records of this agricultural community have been impressed by members of the Walker family ever since. Francis Walker became one of the large land owners of the county. Henry R. Walker, father of the Shelbyville merchant, was also born in Shelby County, and married Elizabeth Woodard, of that county, whose family came here in the early 1820s.
Harry H. Walker was the oldest in a family of six children. He attended the public schools of Shelby County, and his first business after leaving school was farming and dairying. He was in the dairy business until he was twenty-nine. In 1888 he moved his home to Shelbyville and was a retail grocery merchant in that city until 1911. In addition to his wholesale grocery business he is a director and vice president of the Union Building Association and a director of the First National Bank. He is a member of the Wholesale Grocers Association.
During the World war he was active in all the drives for the sale of bonds and raising of funds for the Red Cross and other purposes. He is a Republican, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is a past grand of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, member of the B. P. O. Elks and Improved Order of Red Men. He served a term or two as a member of the City Council.
Mr. Walker first married Vanie Pollick, who died in 1880. Afterwards he married Grace Barron, of Cass County, Indiana, whose people were in Indiana before the close of the territorial period. Her grandfather acted as an interpreter between the famous Chief Tecumseh and Gen. William H. Harrison after the battle of Tippecanoe.
Mr. Walker by his second marriage has two children: George M., a graduate of DePauw University, now general manager of the Harry H. Walker Wholesale Grocery Company, married Mary F. Messick, of Shelby County; and Ruth E. is the wife of J. Frank Deitzer, a Shelbyville business man, and has a daughter, Patricia. George M. Walker was secretary of the Rotary Club in 1926, is a Phi Beta Kappa of DePauw University, member of the Masonic fraternity, and is a past exalted ruler of the B. P. O. Elks."

DEATH:

6. Logansport Pharos-Tribune, 20 Feb 1933.

"Harry Walker. 72 yrs old. husband of the former" Miss Grace Barron of Royal Center, died suddenly last Friday at his home in Shelbyville, Ind. Mrs. Walker Is a sister of Mrs. Grace Walter of Florida, formerly of logansport."

MARRIAGE EVENT:

1. WPA Marriage Index Cass County Indiana. " BARRON,GRACE B,,-,0,HARRY H,WALKER,OCT,5,1892,,,,---,,0,CASS,14,56,3851,."