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Susan Hunter Walker
Mrs. Walker was born in Banff, Scotland,
and received her early education in private schools of Scotland
and England. She is the daughter of the late James Hunter, M.A.,
for quarter of a century rector of the Banff Academy, a school
which prepared youths for the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
Mr. Hunter came to this country in the early eighties and
engaged in literary work. Among other valuable work he
accomplished was the editing of the Supplement to Worcester's
Dictionary, and was chief translator and collaborator in the
preparation of the ''History of All Nations," of Flaathe, of
which the late Professor John Henry Wright, of Harvard
University, was editor-in-chief.
Miss Hunter remained in school in England for some years after
the establishment of her family in Virginia, near the United
States Capital. She continued her education under private
teachers in this country until she became assistant editor of
Book News, Philadelphia.
This position she held for three years,
resigning it to come to Washington to assist Mrs. John A. Logan
in the conduct of The Home Magazine, of Washington. She was
associated with Mrs. Logan in this capacity for several years,
and when Mrs. Logan resigned her position as editor of the Home
Magazine she took up the work, holding it until 1906.
In 1904 Miss Hunter married Rev. Albert
Rhett Walker, of South Carolina, rector of the Episcopal Church
at Fairfax Court House, Virginia. Mr. Walker died in 1910 and
Mrs. Walker has returned to Washington to resume the work
relinquished in a great measure upon her marriage.
She has for many years been a regular
contributor to the general press, writing for The Christian
Herald, The Christian Endeavor World, The Congregationalist, The
Epworth Herald, The Churchman, Human Life, and for many of the
best metropolitan newspapers.
Women of
America
Source: The Part Taken by Women in
American History, By Mrs. John A. Logan, Published by The Perry-Nalle
Publishing Company, Wilmington, Delaware, 1912.
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