This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Walker Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/1441 Message Board Post: Walker, Eddie Webster – Experience has taught some of the most progressive of the Grundy County agriculturalists that the best results are attained through specializing along certain lines. One of the men who has devoted himself to raising fine cattle and horses is Eddie Webster Walker, owner of 280 acres of good land in Mazon Township. His family history is given at length elsewhere in this volume. Mr. Walker has three stallions, one a Percheron and the other two Belgian, and their product is famed all over the country. He exhibits not only at the Grundy County fairs, but at the International Stock Shows. In addition to his noted horses, he breeds and raises Shorthorn cattle, and has a fine bull. His property is known as the Recherché Stock Farm. In addition to the land he owns, Mr. Walker rents additional land, operating in all 800 acres. In 1885 Mr. Walker married Miss Myrtle H. Keepers, born in Ohio, who, at one year of age came with her parents to make their home in Grundy County, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. Walker have had five children, of whom three sons have grown to young manhood. They are: Floyde Eddie Walker, who married Miss Myrtle E. Symons, daughter of S. B. Symons of Mazon, Ill.; Myr J. Walker; and Ollie L. Walker. The married son, Floyde E., has his own home on the farm, and Myr J. and Ollie L. are with their father and all together they comprise the firm of E. W. Walker & Sons, proprietors of Recherche Stock Farm, Mazon, Ill. Mr. Walker belongs to the Methodist Church and gives it a liberal support. Fraternally he belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America. He has served on the Board of Education, and has been instrumental in securing good schools for his district. Recent public events have made him a Progressive in politics, and he is an ardent supporter of the principles involved in that movement. A man of advanced ideas, Mr. Walker has taken advantage of every opportunity to aid him in his operations, and has the best equipped farm in Mazon Township. As is but natural, his authority upon stock breeding matters is unquestioned, and his example is followed by many less enterprising than he. Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois, 1914, page 915-916