HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes, Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol. III, p. 1277. [Full page photograph of Mr. Walker included with bio.] [Kenton County] LYMAN WALKER--Judging by past achievement and prestige already attained, few of the young professional men of Covington has a more brilliant future before them than Lyman Walker, one of the city's leading architects. He is by birth an Ohioan, Zanesville, that state, having been the scene of his nativity and the date, April 22, 1880. He is the son of Richard B. and Lucretia (Morgan) Walker, the former a native of Maryland and the latter of Zanesville, Ohio. Richard B. Walker is one of Covington's prominent business men, being engaged in the real estate and brokerage business. He and his wife are the parents of four children, of whom three survive, Lyman Walker being the eldest. Having attained only to his tenth year at the time of the family's removal from Zanesville Mr. Walker received the greater part of his common school education in Covington. He left his desk in the school room at an unusually early age, being only fourteen when he entered the office of an architect. His very evident cleverness in this line secured his promotion and two years later he entered the employ of Samuel Hannaford & Sons of Cincinnati, with whom he remained for three years, his services being of an eminently satisfactory character. In 1900, although scarcely having reached his majority, he entered the employ of the government as assistant supervising architect of the military occupation of Cuba and he remained upon the island for two years, or until military occupation ceased in 1902, in which year he returned to the United States. Being now well grounded and widely experienced in his profession he felt justified in going farther afield than Covington and for the ensuing two years was engaged in architectural work in Omaha, Nebraska. The charms of the Blue Grass state, nevertheless, remained undimmed in his memory and he returned to Covington and entered into business for himself. He has been eminently successful, and has made plans for many of the principal buildings in Kentucky and Ohio. Politically Mr. Walker constitutes in himself a member of that large Democratic following which is sometimes termed the "Solid South." His fraternal relations extend to the Knights of Pythias at Covington, in which he is active and prominent, it having upon occasion been his distinction to represent the order at the Grand Lodge. Mr. Walker was married July 14, 1904, to Miss Helen Bondesson, a native of Omaha and daughter of John Bondesson, a native of Sweden, a retired lumber merchant and one of the old and well known citizens of that Nebraska city. Mr. and Mrs. Walker are members of the Episcopal church. Walker Morgan Bondesson = Zanesville-Muskingum-OH MD Omaha-Douglas-NE Cincinnati-Hamilton-OH Cuba Sweden http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/kenton/walker.l.txt