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Pioneer - WALKER, John Sible
Biographical Sketches of
Early Settlers of Wellington County
Information from: Historical Atlas of the County of Wellington, Ontario.
Toronto: Historical Atlas Publishing Co., 1906
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WALKER, John Sible
, was b. Durham, Eng., and came to Hamilton in 1827 with his
father, Thomas Walker, and the rest of the family.
Thomas Walker later returned to Eng., and secured a situation as Supt. of the bridge building department of the Great Western Railway and died in Eng. John S., after learning the blacksmithing trade in Hamilton, went to Slabtown (now Stoney Creek). He had m. Jane Thompson who resided with Sir Allan McNabb. After about two years, in 1842, he moved to Erin Tp., settling in Erin Village, where he started the first blacksmith shop, and his brother George started a waggon shop opposite. He soon started a foundry ran by horse power for years. Later he sold out and moved to the present Walker foundry site, where he followed his business and made the celebrated Walker plow, the first iron beam, and iron handle plow in Canada. He also made buggies and cultivators and used to shoe the oxen in the district. He never sought municipal or political honours; was a Conservative in politics and a member of the English church. Issue: Edward (d. Guelph), William (d.) Flesherton; Arthur, Toronto Junction; George, (d. Erin); John C. , Mrs. G. L. Briggs, Tara; and Robert H. , Calgary. Of these John C., b. in Erin Village, went to school to Arthur Lindon and Mr. Leitch. He was in the 47th Lancashire Foot Regiment when stationed in Hamilton and served in the Fenian Raid at Ridgeway, for which he has a medal. He went to Halifax and West Indies with his regiment, in which he was a bugler. His family bought his discharge for him to come home and he became a bugler major of the 30th Wellington Rifles then being organized. Mr. Walker finished learning the moulding trade and worked with the Crowe Iron Works, Guelph, for 19 years. After travelling two years for the Diamond Compound Company of Newark, New Jersey he, in 1895, started the Electric Boiler Compound Company of Guelph. In Jan., 1905, he bought the Guelph Soap Works and runs both. Mr. Walker is a member of the Board of Trade, an Odd Fellow, and a member of the Ancient Order of the United Workmen. His three sons, Charles H., Sherwood F., and E. J. Clifford and a grandson are in the Electric Boiler Compound Company Ltd. And one son E. J. Clifford in the Guelph Soap Co. Charles H., is cashier in the G.T.R. in Guelph; Sherwood T. is with the Westinghouse Co. in Hamilton; E. J. Clifford is Secy of both the Compound Company and Soap Company. From: Historical Atlas of the County of Wellington, Ontario. Toronto: Historical Atlas Publishing Co., 1906 |
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