Duncan S. Walker
Duncan S. Walker | |
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| Born | 1794 Pennsylvania, United States |
| Died | December 31, 1835 (aged 41) Off St. Jago de Cuba |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Duncan S. Walker (1794 – December 31, 1835) was an American lawyer and a Mississippi state legislator.
Biography
[edit]Walker was a son of Jonathan Hoge Walker and Lucy Duncan who were married in 1790.[1] Duncan S. Walker was their second of eight children and the oldest who survived to adulthood.[2] Walker was originally from the Carlisle, Pennsylvania area and moved to Mississippi with his brother Robert J. Walker in the 1820s.[3] Their prosperous cousin Stephen Duncan already lived in the lower Mississippi River valley.[3] He, like his brother, was a Jacksonian Democrat.[3]
In 1824 he was selected as a second lieutenant of the Natchez Fencibles militia company.[4]
In 1828, Walker ran for a seat in the Mississippi House of Representatives from Adams County.[5][6][7] He served in the 12th Mississippi legislature.[8] He later moved to Louisiana where he owned a plantation.[8]
He died of a pulmonary illness off Cuba in winter 1835 at age 42.[8][9]
References
[edit]- ↑ Rothstein (1979), p. 71.
- ↑ Smith, Katherine Duncan (1928). The story of Thomas Duncan and his six sons. New York: T.A. Wright, Inc. p. 44.
- 1 2 3 Rothstein (1979), p. 76.
- ↑ Power (1897), p. 88.
- ↑ "We are authorized to announce". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2026-01-24.
- ↑ "Natchez". The Weekly Natchez Courier. August 2, 1828. p. 5. Retrieved 2026-01-24.
- ↑ "To the electors of Adams County". The Weekly Natchez Courier. August 2, 1828. p. 3. Retrieved 2026-01-24.
- 1 2 3 "DIED". Mississippi Free Trader. February 12, 1836. p. 3. Retrieved 2026-01-24.
- ↑ "Obituary". Daily National Intelligencer and Washington Express. February 27, 1836. p. 3. Retrieved 2026-01-24.
Sources
[edit]- Power, Steve (1897). The memento, old and new Natchez, 1700 to 1897. Old and new Natchez, 1700 to 1897. Natchez, Miss.: Myrtle Bank Publishers. LCCN 84061565. OCLC 2920774.
- Rothstein, Morton (1979). "The Changing Social Networks and Investment Behavior of a Slaveholding Elite in the Ante Bellum South: Some Natchez Nabobs, 1800–1860". In Greenfield, Sidney M.; Strickon, Arnold; Aubey, Robert T. (eds.). Entrepreneurs in Cultural Context. School of American Research, Advanced Seminar Series. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. pp. 65–88. ISBN 978-0-8263-0504-6. LCCN 78021433. OCLC 4859059.
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