El Dorado County
Biographies
FRANK X. WALKER
Frank
X. Walker, who, after many years of active and successful effort as a rancher,
is now practically retired, is one of the most highly esteemed citizens of the
Clarksville district of El Dorado County. He was born in Switzerland, on the 3rd
of March, 1860, and was reared and educated there. In 1880, when about twenty
years of age, he immigrated to the United States and stopped first in St.
Louis, Missouri. A year later he
came on to the coast and located in Sacramento, where he spent eight
months. He then entered the employ of
Anton Russi, on whose ranch near Clarksville he worked until the death of his
employer, seven years later.
Subsequently he married Mrs. Russi and took over the active management
of the ranch, the operations of which he directed until advancing years
admonished to take things easier, and he is now practically retired, his son
Charles T. taking over the management of the property, which consists of two
thousand eight hundred acres in the home place and three thousand five hundred
acres at Lake Tahoe. He formerly owned a
large dairy herd, but for some years prior to retiring had confined his
attention mainly to raising cattle and sheep, in which business he has been
very successful.
To Mr. and Mrs. Walker have been born three children: Charles Thomas, Eugene and Agnes. The mother of these children passed away on
January 14, 1926. There are seven
grandchildren. Mr. Walker gives his
support to the Republican Party and is a member of the Knights of Pythias at
Folsom. A man of strict integrity in
word and action, he commands the confidence of his flowers and throughout this
community is held in very high regard.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Wooldridge, J.W.Major History of Sacramento Valley
California, Vol. 2 Pages 312-315. Pioneer Historical
Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010 Gerald Iaquinta.
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