Lois D Walker

Brief Life History of Lois D

When Lois D Walker was born on 22 July 1883, in Toulon, Stark, Illinois, United States, her father, David John Walker, was 42 and her mother, Estella Delphine Rhodes, was 36. She married ?. She lived in Washington, District of Columbia, United States in 1920. She died on 1 January 1972, in Oak Park, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Toulon, Stark, Illinois, United States.

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Lois D Walker
1883–1972

Sources (9)

  • Louis Walker in household of Stella D Walker, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Lois Walker, "Illinois Births and Christenings, 1824-1940"
  • Lois Walker, "United States Social Security Death Index"

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World Events (8)

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1887 · Monotype Type-Casting Machine

June 7, 1887, Tolbert Lanston patented his Monotype machine. It typed individual characters instead of lines like the Linotype machine.

1907 · Not for profit elections

The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.

Name Meaning

English (mainly North and Midlands) and Scottish: occupational name for a fuller, from Middle English walker, Old English wealcere (an agent derivative of wealcan ‘to walk, tread’), ‘one who trampled cloth in a bath of lye or kneaded it, in order to strengthen it’. This was the regular term for the occupation during the Middle Ages in western and northern England. Compare Fuller and Tucker . As a Scottish surname it has also been used as a translation of Gaelic Mac an Fhucadair ‘son of the fuller’. This surname is also very common among African Americans.

History: The name was brought to North America from northern England and Scotland independently by many different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Samuel Walker came to Lynn, MA, c. 1630; Philip Walker was in Rehoboth, MA, in or before 1643. The surname was also established in VA before 1650; a Thomas Walker, born in 1715 in King and Queen County, VA, was a physician, soldier, and explorer.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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