Gaston, Joseph.  "The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912."  Vol. 2. 
Chicago, Clarke Publishing Co., 1912. p. 21.
 
HORACE WALKER

     is numbered among the officials of Umatilla county, serving at the present
time as a member of the board of county commissioners. He makes his home in
Pendleton, to which city he removed in 1904. Previous to that time he had
resided upon a ranch and is still the owner of four hundred and fifty-eight
acres of valuable land in this part of the state.
     Mr. Walker is a Canadian by birth, having been born in Gray county,
Ontario, May 16, 1864. His parents, John and Jane (Stevenson) Walker, were both
natives of Scotland and in their early youth came with their respective parents
to the new world. They were married in Canada and began their domestic life upon
a farm there, but in 1877 crossed the border into the United States, arriving in
Wallulu, Washington, on the 26th of March and thence proceeded to Weston,
Oregon. The previous year the father had made a trip to the Pacific northwest
and had selected a location. Subsequently the family home was established at
Weston, in Umatilla county, Oregon, the father purchasing a farm on Dry creek,
there carrying on general agricultural pursuits until he removed to a farm on
Butter creek now in Morrow county, where he was extensively engaged in the stock
business. At that time, however, Morrow still formed a part of Umatilla county,
within the borders of which he continued to reside until his death, on the 12th
of April, 1893, when he was sixty-five years of age. For about six years he had
survived his wife, who passed away in 1887, aged sixty-five years. They were
both consistent members of the Presbyterian church and enjoyed the high regard
of all with whom they came in contact.
     Horace Walker spent his youthful days in the home of his parents and was a
lad of thirteen years at the time of the removal to the United States. He
started out independently on attaining his majority and took up the occupation
of farming and stockraising with which he had become familiar through the period
of his boyhood and youth. During the past twenty-seven years he has been quite
extensively engaged in raising wheat and is now the owner of three hundred and
twenty acres of wheat land in Gilliam county, and also owns an alfalfa and stock
ranch of one hundred and twenty-eight acres in the meadows of Umatilla county.
Both of these places he still continues to operate and his agricultural and
stock-raising interests are bringing to him a gratifying measure of prosperity.
     In 1892 Mr. Walker was united in marriage to Miss Agnes Still, a native of
Orangeville, Canada, who came to Umatilla county, Oregon, with her parents. The
four children of this marriage are: Raymond and Bern ice, who are students in
the high school of Pendleton; Grant and Thelma, who are pupils in the eighth
grade. It was the desire to give his children good educational opportunities
that led Mr. Walker to remove to Pendleton in 1904. He is numbered among the
worthy and progressive citizens here and enjoys the high regard of his fellow
townsmen. In politics lie has long been an earnest republican and is recognized
as one of the local leaders of the party. He has served repeatedly as delegate
to the county and state conventions and is now serving for the twelfth
consecutive year as a member of the board of county commissioners, his
reelection being incontrovertible proof of his fidelity and capability in office
and of the confidence reposed in him by his constituents. He belongs to Nasbury
Lodge, No. 93, F. & A. M., at Helix, and to Pendleton Chapter, No. 52, R. A. M.
His life has been well spent and the record which he has made in business shows
that he has wisely used his time and opportunities. As a public official he has
been most earnest in performing the duties that have devolved upon him and in
promoting the welfare and progress of his county through the exercise of his
official prerogatives. In every relation of life he measures up to a high
standard of manhood and citizenship and is highly esteemed wherever known.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in September 2010 by Diana Smith.
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.