HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes, Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol. III, pp. 1233-34. [Kenton County] GEORGE W. WALTERS, M.D.--Dr. Walters has been engaged in the practice of his profession in Covington for nearly forty years and thus is one of the oldest practitioners, in point of consecutive service, to be found in Kenton county at the present time, the while his high professional ability and marked success have long given him precedence as one of the representative physicians and surgeons of this section of the state, where he is known as a loyal, liberal and public-spirited citizen of sterling character. Dr. Walters was born in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 24th of September, 1849, and is a son of Ferdinand and Mary (Dowling) Walters, the former of whom was born in Maryland and the latter in England. The mother came to the United State when twenty years of age, and her marriage to Ferdinand Walters was solemnized in the City of Philadelphia. The father of the Doctor was a millwright and built up a large and important business as a contractor in this line. He erected many distilleries in Kentucky and numerous flour mills in this state and other sections of the Union. He took up his residence in Cincinnati in 1833, and he moved thence to Covington about 1850, when the subject of this review was an infant. Here he passed the residue of his life and here his death occurred in the year 1876. In politics he was a Democrat of the old school but at the time of the Civil war he transferred his allegiance to the Republican party. His widow was summoned to the life eternal in 1881, and of their seven children four are living, Dr. George W. being the youngest of the number, Charles F., one of the older sons, was a valiant soldier of the Union in the Civil war, in which he served four years as a member of the Seventh Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry. He held the office of ordnance sergeant and he was breveted lieutenant at the time of receiving his honorable discharge. He was captured, together with about three hundred other Federal soldiers, by General Morgan in the early period of his service, but after a short time his exchange was effected at Camp Chase, Ohio. In after years he often met with Morgan's men in annual reunion and found much pleasure in recalling the more gracious associations of the great conflict, whose animosities has been softened by time. Dr. George W. Walters was reared to maturity in Covington, to whose public schools he is indebted for his educational discipline, which included a course in the high school. As a youth he served an apprenticeship at the trade of pattern making and for a time he was associated with his father's business. In 1868 he began the study of medicine, under the preceptorship of Dr. Cooke, of Cincinnati, and in the autumn of that year he was matriculated in the Physio-Medical Institute, in Cincinnati, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1870, and from which he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine. In 1881, after an intervening period of successful practice, he completed an effective post-graduate course in the Medical College of Ohio, in the same city. In 1870 Dr. Walters initiated the practice of his profession at Mason, Warren county, Ohio, where he remained two years. He then returned to Covington, where he has been actively and successfully devoting his attention to general practice as a physician and surgeon during the long intervening years, which have given him a secure place in popular confidence and esteem both as a physician and as a citizen. The Doctor is a valued member of the Kenton-Campbell County Medical Society, of which he served as president in 1896. He is also actively identified with the Kentucky State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. Though loyal to the civic duties and manifesting at all times a deep interest in all that touches the welfare of his home city Dr. Walters has never had aught of ambition for public office. He gives his allegiance to the Republican party and his wife holds membership in the Christian church, which he himself attends and supports. In the year 1881 was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Walters to Miss Emma Oder, who was born at Williamstown, Grant county, Kentucky, and who is a daughter of Reuben and Margaret (Masterson) Oder, both of whom were likewise born in Kentucky, where the respective families were founded many years ago. Reuben Oder, a carpenter by trade and vocation, served in the Union army during the Civil war as a member of a regiment of Kentucky cavalry. Dr. and Mrs. Walters have one child, Edith, who remains at the parental home. Walters Dowling Cooke Masterson Oder = Williamstown-Grant-KY Cincinnati-Hamilton-OH Mason-Warren-OH MD PA England http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/kenton/walters.gw.txt