Walker, Joseph (1)

an English Congregational minister, was born in 1802. Mr. Walker was for many years a teacher in the public schools. He graduated with high honors at Airedale College, and became pastor of Northallerton Independent Church. After years of patient labor, he removed to Hexham, and in 1855 set-led at Derby. Mr. Walker was well versed in the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures, and possessed special facilities of imparting his knowledge to others. He died Dec. 2, 1867. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1869, p. 293.