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About Jennie Walters Delano
372 — William Thompson Walters, born May 23, 1819, at Harrisburg, Pa.; died Nov. 22, 1894, at Baltimore, Md. Attended the University of Pennsylvania. At the age of 19, he was given charge of an iron furnace at Farrandsville, Clinton County, Pa., where he produced, for the first time in America, iron by the use of coked bituminous coal. He was a merchant, railway director, patron and connoisseur of art. He did much to develop transportation facilities in the South and was the president of first steamship line between Baltimore and Savannah; was Vice-President, Northern Central Railway when it was extended to Baltimore. With his life-long friend, Thos. K. Scott, President Pennsylvania Railroad, formed the Southern Security Co., which in the years 1866 and 1873 borrowed the money to rebuild the railroads between Richmond and Charleston, Richmond and Danville and Bristol to Chattanooga, Tenn., and built the Charlotte and Atlanta Air Line. After the panic of 1873 all these roads were sold except what now forms the Atlantic Coast Line, of which he was the Chairman of the Executive Committee until his death. For ten years he was Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Texas and Pacific Railroad, which he and his friend Thos. K. Scott had projected from the Mississippi River to San Diego, Cal., but which they sold to Jay Gould, who completed it to a connection at the Rio Grande with the Southern Pacific. He was one of the early art collectors in the United States and Chairman for many years of the Purchasing Committee of the Corcoran Art Gallery in Washington, D. C. He was also President of the Peabody Institute of Baltimore. He translated from the French, Charles Du Hay's authoritative treatise on the Percheron horse and for 20 years was an importer and breeder of this draught horse to introduce it into this country. From 1867 to 1869 he was Finance Commissioner of Baltimore City and in 1873 Commissioner to the Vienna Exposition. See Appleton's Encyclopedia of American Biography. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Md., is considered one of the finest in existence.
W. T. Walters married in 1845, Ellen Harper (born; died 1862), daughter of Charles A. and Anna D. (____ ) Harper.
Issue
(1) Henry,
(2) Jennie,
(3) William Thompson.
Bibliographic Information:
- The descendants of John Thomson, pioneer Scotch covenanter; genealogical notes on all known descendants of John Thomson, covenanter, of Scotland, Ireland and Pennsylvania, with such biographical sketches as could be obtained from availble published records, or were supplied by the friends of those individuals who were too modest to tell of their own accomplishments
- by McAllister, Addams Stratton, 1875-
- Published 1917
- Topics Thompson family (John Thompson, d. 1779)
- Publisher Easton, Pa., The Chemical Publishing Company, printers
- Pages 422
- Possible copyright status NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
- Language English
- Call number b5254825
- Digitizing sponsor MSN
- Book contributor New York Public Library
- Collection newyorkpubliclibrary; americana
- Full catalog record MARCXML
- Page 141
- https://archive.org/stream/descendantsofjoh00mcal#page/n169/mode/2up
- Residence: 1880 - Mount Savage, Allegany, Maryland, United States
- Residence: 1900 - East Orange city Ward 3, Essex, New Jersey, United States
- Residence: 1910 - Manhattan Ward 21, , New York
- Residence: 1920 - Manhattan Assembly District 10, New York, New York, United States
- Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: Jan 8 2019, 19:47:44 UTC
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Jennie Walters Delano's Timeline
| 1853 |
April 17, 1853
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Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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| 1877 |
July 29, 1877
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Mount Savage, Allegany County, Maryland, United States
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| 1883 |
July 16, 1883
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Newburgh, Orange County, New York, United States
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| 1884 |
July 10, 1884
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East Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, United States
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| 1885 |
August 23, 1885
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City of Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, United States
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| 1889 |
December 12, 1889
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Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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| 1892 |
January 8, 1892
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| 1894 |
December 16, 1894
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| 1922 |
December 2, 1922
Age 69
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Manhattan, New York, New York County, New York, United States
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