Frank W. Walker
Frank W. Walker, former director of public safety for the city of Xenia, former township treasurer and formerly and for years connected with the passenger department of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Company and now and for nearly twenty years past engaged in the coal business at Xenia, was born on a farm in Caesarscreek township, this county, on August 21, 1867, son of Mordecai and Deborah (Painter) Walker, both now deceased.
Mordecai Walker was born in the neighboring county of Clinton and was but ten or twelve years of age when his parents moved up into Greene county, where he spent the rest of his life. Here he married Deborah Painter, who was born in Caesarscreek township, and after his marriage established his home on a farm in that township and continued to reside there until his death in June, 1888. He and his wife were the parents of three children, the subject of this sketch having a brother, Alpheus D. Walker, born in 1872, now living at Jamestown, a traveling salesman, who married Belle Ireland and has three children, Clarence, Mabel and Hazel, and a sister, Grace, who married Clyde Lemmons, a Clinton county farmer, and has three children.
Frank W. Walker was reared on the home farm in Caesarscreek township, receiving his schooling in the neighborhood schools, and remained at home until he was twenty years of age, when he became employed as a traveling passenger agent for tlie Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Company. He married when twenty-one years of age and continued his connection with the railroad company for ten or twelve years, or until 1900, when he became engaged in the coal business at Xenia. In connection with this business Mr. Walker two years ago established a local motor transfer line. He is a Republican and for six years or more prior to the recent change in city government occupied the position of director of public safety for the city of Xenia. He also was for six years a member of the local board of control, for six years served as treasurer of Xenia township, his term of office in this latter department of public activity expiring on January 1, 1918, and also rendered service as a member of the workhouse board and of the local board of health.
On September 2, 1888, Frank W. Walker was united in marriage to Ella St. John, who also was born in Caesarscreek township, and to this union have been born four children, namely: Reva, Lora and Karl at home, the latter being engaged in business with his father, and Paul, who is now a resident of Daytona, Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Walker are members of the First Reformed church and Mr. Walker for the past seven years or more has been a member of the board of trustees of the church. He is a Scottish Rite Mason and a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, affiliated with the blue lodge at Xenia and with the consistory and the temple at Dayton. He also is affiliated with the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Xenia.
From History of Greene County Ohio, Its People, Industries and Institutions, vol. 2. M.A.Broadstone, editor. B.F.Bowen & Co., Indianapolis. 1918