"Portrait & Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley Oregon." Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company, 1903. p. 1509. GEORGE O. WALKER More than any other class of people in the country, the young and intelligent farmer, keen of wit, resourceful, and with a proper appreciation of the possibilities of his occupation, is depended on to maintain the financial prestige of this great country. His success or failure is the pulse upon which all departments of activity keep an anxious finger. The reports from his granaries control the making or marring of fortunes, and his every transaction carries significance to the remotest corners of the earth. How necessary, therefore, that the man who manages tracts of land and turns them to account, should be well educated, systematic, thrifty, and above all else find in his work that enjoyment and satisfaction without which labor were nearly always in vain. A fitting representative of this latter-day class of agriculturists is George O. Walker, who, profiting by the success of his sire, has turned his energies to such good account that he is one of the foremost of the stock-raisers in Lane county. On the farm where he is still living Mr. Walker was born January 17, 1874, and he was educated in the public schools and at the Drain Normal school. Subsequently he engaged in teaching for several years, but still regarded the old claim as his home, to which he returned during the summer. After his marriage with Dollie Morningstar, a native of Illinois, Mr. Walker moved from the farm into the village which had sprung up on a portion of it, and in 1899 started a general merchandise business, continuing the same up to the present time. Although taking no particular interest in politics, Mr. Walker has held a number of local positions, and in 1900 was appointed postmaster of Walker. By no means devoted to one idea or place, Mr. Walker has branched out in business in Anlauf, Douglas county, where he has a small store, and also conducts a sawmill. These two occupations would seem to be sufficient for the average young man, however ambitious or capable, yet Mr. Walker keeps in touch, with the labor of his youth, and, on his farm of five hundred acres adjoining the town, conducts a general farming and stock-raising industry. The same thoroughness which characterizes the merchant is noticeable also in the work of the farmer, for a better conducted or more modern farm it would be difficult to find in this county noted for its splendid farming properties. Mr. and Mrs. Walker have five children : Icie, Valta, Echo, Gale, and Ansel. The family are members of the Primitive Baptist church, and are socially well known and popular. Thus it will be seen that though young in years, Mr. Walker has already established himself among the substantial and permanent upbuilding agencies of Lane county, and as such he enjoys a prestige independent from that which is his by virtue of the foundation laid for him by his father. ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in June 2010 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.