El
Dorado County
Biographies
CHARLES T. WALKER
One
of the largest and important ranches of the Clarksville district
of El Dorado County is that of which Charles T. Walker is the active manager
and which is devoted largely to the raising of cattle. Mr. Walker was born on this place on the 12th
of May, 1893, and has always lived here.
He received his educational training in the public schools of
Clarksville and a business college in Sacramento, after which he went to work
on the home ranch. In the course of
time, when increasing years compelled his father to relinquish much of the farm
work, Charles T. took over the active management of the ranch and is now
practically directing its operations.
They have two thousand eight hundred acres of land in the home place,
and also have another ranch of three thousand five hundred acres at Lake
Tahoe. On these ranches they run about
six hundred head of cattle, in the handling of which they have been very
successful, being numbered among the leading ranchers of this section of the
county.
Mr.
Walker was united in marriage to Miss Eva Miser, who also was descended from
one of the old pioneer families of El Dorado County, her father being
extensively engaged in cattle raising. Mr. and Mrs. Walker were the parents of two
children, Marcella and John Franklin.
Mrs. Walker died December 27, 1930.
Mr. Walker takes a keen interest in public affairs, but in politics
maintains an independent attitude, voting for the best men, regardless of party
lines. He is a member of the Free and
Accepted Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Fraternal Order of
Eagles, the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Native Sons of the
Golden West. His maternal grandmother
was one of the first school teachers in El Dorado County. The Walkers have always been number among the
best families of El Dorado County, commanding respect for their sterling
personal qualities, as well as for the material wealth.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Wooldridge, J.W.Major History of Sacramento Valley
California, Vol. 3, Pages 31-32. Pioneer Historical
Publishing Co. Chicago 1931.
© 2010
Gerald Iaquinta.
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