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Hon. Charles Whiting Walker, a prominent legal practitioner, and son of Chief Justice Walker, was born in Fayetteville, Ark., December, 24, 1835, and was reared in that city. He received a thorough scientific and literary course in the College of New Jersey, at Princeton, and afterward read law with his father for about eighteen months, when he entered the Law School of Tennessee, at Lebanon. He here completed the middle course of study, but the war breaking out at this juncture caused him to fling his books aside, shoulder his musket and take his part in the great struggle. He enlisted in the Thirty-fourth Arkansas (Brooks regiment), Capt. J. W. Walker’s company (his brother), and was in active and honorable service until the close or the war. He was tendered the colonelcy of the Third Arkansas Regiment upon the organization of the Arkansas troops, but declined it on the grounds of field service and also being with his brother. After the war he returned to Fayetteville and resumed the practice of law. He was married in this city to Miss Serena Jernigan, September 26, 1867, daughter of C. L. Jernigan, and the fruits of this union were three daughters: Nannie, Louisa and Jennie. Mr. Walker has always taken an active interest in the political spirit of his locality, and represented Washington County, Ark., as a delegate to the constitutional convention of 1868. He also represented that county in the Lower House of the General Assembly in 1877. He was mayor of Fayetteville in 1884, and had previously been on the board of aldermen of that city. He is at present the candidate for election to the circuit clerkship; is a member of the I. O. O. F., and he and family are members of the Missionary Baptist Church.