Charles Rumford Walker (physician)

Charles Rumford Walker, Sr. (February 13, 1852 - April 22, 1922) was a prominent New Hampshire physician and politician.

Biography

He was born on February 13, 1852 in New Hampshire. His grandfather was Nathaniel Gookin Upham, a justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

Walker was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Yale University and Harvard Medical School. He was the president of the New Hampshire Medical Society in 1899. He was among the founding physicians of Margaret Pillsbury Hospital in Concord, New Hampshire. A Republican, he was a member of the New Hampshire State Legislature in 1904.

He died on April 22, 1922.

See also

Sources

  • Henry Harrison Metcalf, One Thousand New Hampshire Notables (Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Printing Company, 1919), p. 6.
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