Walker, Francis Amasa

Education

LL.D. 11.2.1888.

Birth/childhood

Born 2.7.1840 son of Amasa Walker, shoe manufacturer and economist, Boston and Hannah Ambrose.

Career

Studied at Amherst College.

Brigadier General in American Civil War. President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1881-1897. [Soldier]

Publications

Death

Died 5.1.1897.

Sources

  • Dictionary of Australian biography
  • American national biography