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Edward G. Walker

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stated that Walker was born in 1835. If he was born in 1835, then David Walker would not have been his father, and this was two years after his mother's marriage to Alexander Dewson. Hinks says this is not likely, because Edwin would have been unlikely to have used the last name Walker if he was the
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Only the election of two colored men as representatives in the state legislature made some noise here and gave sufficient matter for conversation, as this is the first election of its kind. Messrs. Mitchell and Walker are the first of the 'despised race' who are called to post such as this one. And
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The senior Alexander was posthumously bequeathed $ 1000 for the construction of a house from William H. Bordman, who died on June 15, 1872. Since Alexander had died by this time, there was a question about whether Eliza, son Edward and stepson Alexander were entitled to the inheritance. The second
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The couple had a son named Edwin Eugene Walker born about 1859 died 1891, California; two daughters Georgiana Grace born about 1861 and Eliza Ann born about 1863 and died 1866, Lowell. The family lived with Walker's mother, Eliza Dewson, also recorded as Susan, in Charlestown. Hannah is not living
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office of Charles A. Tweed and John Q. A. Griffin. He also continued to run his leatherwork business. He became the first (or third) black lawyer in the state of Massachusetts when he was admitted to the bar in May 1861 in Suffolk County. He was described as one of Boston's "prominent" attorneys.
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Eliza Butler Walker met Alexander Dewson, whom she married on September 19, 1833. He also had a son, Alexander, born about 1830, whom he brought to the family with her and her son Edward. They had a daughter, Margareta, who died at five months of age on April 11, 1837, of lung fever. Dewson was
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in 1868, and granting suffrage to African-American men to vote and hold public office in 1870. At the same time, states were drafting laws to recognize the new status of freedmen. In the Massachusetts House, Walker opposed the
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question was whether Alexander was entitled to the entire portion, or if it should be split three ways. The case – John D. Bates & another, administrator, vs. Alexander Dewson, and others – was presented to the
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Walker married Hannah Jane Van Vronker on November 15, 1858, in Boston. He was 28 and his bride was 23. Hannah was born in Lowell on October 10, 1835, one of Henry and Lucinda Webster Van Vronker's three daughters.
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and other black leaders, formed the Negro Political Independence Movement. Walker was elected Colored National League president in 1890. He was nominated for United States president in 1896 by the Negro Party.
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Walker also worked for equal rights. Blacks in Boston gained integration in city schools for their children in 1855, by a state legislative act after years of lobbying in the city and at the legislature.
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1860 Charlestown, 1870 Charlestown and 1880 Boston, U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
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By 1848 and at least through 1852, the Dewsons lived on 13 Southac Street in Charlestown. Southac Street is not Phillips Street, located in Beacon Hill. Alexander Dewson died at the age of 46 of
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Walker's opposition to the language of the 14th Amendment was part of a larger breach with his fellow Massachusetts Republicans. They did not nominate him for a second term. He joined the
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Rise of the Colonial Power; the Birth of Independence; the Formation of the Commonwealth; and the Gradual Progress of the State from Its Earliest Infancy to Its Present High Position
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Most sources say his mother was Eliza, believed to be a runaway slave. Another theory (not a consensus position) is that she was Eliza Butler, from a notable black family in Boston.
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in Boston took the lives of Lydia Ann on July 30 and her father David on August 6. David had collapsed and died at the entrance to his store. He was a free black man from
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The Boston Directory: ...including All Localities Within the City Limits, as Allston, Brighton, Charlestown, Dorchester, Hyde Park, Roslindale, Roxbury, West Roxbury
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in 1883, but the nomination was rejected by the Republican majority in the state legislature. They voted to give the position to
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Walker received training in working with leather as a young man. He established a business that eventually employed 15 people.
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Davis and Valle said that he was the first black to be admitted to the bar in the state; Black Past said he was the third.
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In fact it was Mitchell who represented Boston's wealthy Beacon Street district, while Walker represented a district in
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When Walker died, his widow Eliza was unable to keep up the annual payments of $ 266 ("a huge sum for Walker") made to
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On Tuesday, November 6, 1866, Claude August Crommelin remarked in his diary about the otherwise quiet election day:
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which he consulted while trying to free Minkins in 1851, Walker "read the law", serving as an apprentice at the
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Edward G. Walker (1830–1901), son of David Walker (abolitionist), one of the first two black men elected to the
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was underway. Passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the US Constitution had resulted in the
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Seating chart for Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1867, showing seat #233 assigned to Walker
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Edward Garrison Walker was born in Edgefield, South Carolina in 1830 to Eliza Walker, the widow of
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BlackPast.org. Retrieved April 22, 2013. University of North Carolina suggests her name was Emily.
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Black America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia
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Contee, Clarence G. "Edwin G. Walker, Black Leader: Generally Acknowledged Son of David Walker,"
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Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
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To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance
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To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David Walker And the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance
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Walker became an abolitionist as his father had been. In 1851 he collaborated with attorney
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Construction in Back Bay (1870) with Commonwealth Avenue flanking the tree-lined Mall.
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A Young Dutchman Views Post--Civil War America: Diary of Claude August Crommelin
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Massachusetts Troublemakers: Rebels, Reformers, and Radicals from the Bay State
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that a combination of circumstances has caused that Mr. Walker is representing
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of slavery in 1865, granting full citizenship and protection of the law to
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Hinks says that Dewson (or Duson) was not in the city records after 1839.
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Neal, Anthony W. "Edwin Garrison Walker: An able lawyer and legislator"
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The transcribed marriage record gives her last name as Van Kronker.
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who had settled in Boston about 1825, where he became a prominent
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for the purchase of their home, and she lost it. In his pamphlet
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African-American officeholders in the United States, 1789–1866
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Walker was nominated as a state judge by Democratic Governor
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African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era
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As Walker and Mitchell began their one-year terms in the
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Davis said that he studied at Tweed's office in Boston.
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Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
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were the first two African Americans elected to the
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The Boston History Company. p.  347:Massachusetts House of Representatives 54:Massachusetts House of Representatives 1873:19th-century African-American lawyers 1229:Slavery in the colonial United States 1173:, page 9. Tuesday, January 22, 1901. 1113:Carey, Charles W. (January 1, 2004). 990:Alton Hornsby Jr. (August 31, 2011). 781:Paul Della Valle (January 13, 2009). 588:Court, Massachusetts General (1867). 7: 1119:. Infobase Publishing. p. vii. 1341:(abolitionist, author, businessman) 724:. Penn State Press. pp. 270–. 1918:African-American history in Boston 1608:Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society 1596:Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society 1590:Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society 1116:African-American Political Leaders 892:Black Heritage Trail: Lewis Hayden 827:. Penn State Press. pp. 77–. 385:with a heavily Irish voting base. 341:'s Ward 3, and Union Army veteran 14: 1281:(slave memoirists, abolitionists) 1087:Neal, Anthony W. 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Index


Massachusetts State Legislature
Massachusetts House of Representatives
Middlesex
Edgefield, South Carolina
Quincy, Massachusetts
Republican
Democratic
David Walker
Charles Lewis Mitchell
Massachusetts
David Walker
abolitionist
David Walker
tuberculosis
epidemic
Wilmington, North Carolina
abolitionist
George Parkman
consumption
tuberculosis
Charlestown, Massachusetts

Shadrach Minkins
Robert Morris
Lewis Hayden
Boston Vigilance Committee
Shadrach Minkins
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Underground Railroad

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