Benjamin Card Walker, son of Orlando Walker and Rachel Lucretia Ladd Walker. Husband of Jane Marion (Jennie) Roberts. Father of 12 children: Everett Allen, Loren Watson, Anna Laura [Saunders], Merrill Merton, William Edward, Jessie Dameris, Walter Sherman, Orlando Griffith, Nina (Ginerva), Mabel [Farr], Mary L.[Rodibaugh] and Julia Christine [James}. Prominent farmer in Wabash County, Indiana
Alternate birthdate from family genealogy as stated.

Benjamin Walker, of Noble Township, Wabash County, Indiana, is of English lineage and a direct descendant of Capt. Richard Walker, who was born in 1593, located at Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1630, and became a man of great prominence in the colony. [This in incorrect. Benjamin is descended from Samuel Walker, b. about 1615 in England and no relationship has been established to Richard Walker.] Jonathan Bardwell, a descendant of the pioneer Walker family, was a captain in the hardy little band of patriots who responded to the call to arms to defend Lexington, Massachusetts, April 19, 1775, and his name frequently occurs in the official reports of the war of the Revolution. Josiah Walker, grandfather of Benjamin Walker, of this sketch, was a corporal at the battle of Lexington, and served in the patriot army five months and twenty-six days, when he was honorably discharged. This spirit of warlike patriotism, as manifested by his forefathers, is a quality in the present generation and evidenced by Mr. and Mrs. Walker being members of the order known as the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution. Benjamin Walker had his nativity in Smyrna, Shenango County, New York, January 31, 1838, and is the seventh of the ten children born to Orlando and Rachel (Ladd) Walker, but of these there are only three living, namely: flora [Ilona] , wife of E. G. Roberts, an agriculturist and seedsman of Wolcott, Indiana; Henry, a marble sculptor, residing at Remington, Indiana; and Benjamin. Orlando Walker was born in Belchertown, Massachusetts, December 21, 1799, and died December 18, 1889. He was reared to farming, and at maturity removed from the home farm to Chenango County, New York, where he resided until 1843, and then came west to Chicago, which city was then Ft. Dearbo n. He then moved to Oswego, Kendall County, Illinois, and thence moved to Kane County, Illinois, and a few years later, 1870, came to Indiana. Mrs. Rachel (Ladd) Walker was born in Chenango County, New York, May 6, 1803, and died February 12, 1879. Benjamin Walker, of this sketch, was but a child of five years when brought west, coming by way of the Erie Canal and the great lakes from New York to Illinois, and in the latter state was educated in the common schools. He was reared to agriculture and began life's work in Sullivan County, Missouri, with a cash capital of $150. His brother Charles had preceded him to Missouri and purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, and Benjamin worked for him two years. He then enlisted in Company A, Linn County Reserve Corps, which was attached to the Third Iowa Regiment and placed on duty in Missouri; served three months, and as his youngest brother had enlisted for three years, Benjamin returned to his home to take care of his father. February 13, 1866, Benjamin Walker married Miss Jennie M. Roberts, and to this union have been born six sons and six daughters, all of whom, save one, are still living, namely: Everett H., editor and proprietor of the Wolcott Enterprise, an eight-page newspaper; Loren W., a merchant in West Pullman, Illinois; Anna, still under the parental roof; Merton, who graduated from the Indiana State Dental College in 1899; William, who graduated from the same college in 1898, and now resides in Wolcott, Indiana; Walter, a pupil in the common school; Orlando, Ginerva, Mabel, Mary and Julia . Mrs. Jennie M. (Roberts) Walker was born in Lewis County, New York, June 12, 1844, of Welsh parentage. In 1842 these parents came from Liverpool, England, in a sailing vessel, and were six weeks on the passage to New York City. They were the parents of five children, of whom four still survive, and are named as follows: Griffith, now in California; Evan, of White County, Indiana; Hugh, of Wabash County, Indiana; and Mrs. Walker, who was reared in Wayne County, Michigan, and educated in the high school at Detroit. Mr. and Mrs. Walker began their married life in Kane County, Illinois, resided there five years, then disposed of their farm and purchased another in White County, Indiana, on which they resided twenty-five years. This farm contained eighty acres of raw prairie land, covered with "nigger-heads," there Mr. Walker erected an elegant country residence, a 64x80-foot barn, a double corn crib, and set out a grove of trees four acres in extent, including the usual fruit products of that latitude. He increased this estate to two hundred and forty acres and had it thoroughly tiled, adapting it to pasture. He bred, besides Shorthorn meat cattle, a large number of Poland-China hogs. In 1897 Mr. Walker sold his farming property in White County, and traded his residence in Remington, Jasper County, for a farm of one hundred and forty acres in Lagro Township, Wabash County, where he resided two years, and then purchased two hundred and forty acres of the McGowan estate, in section 23, Noble Township. In 1900 he erected a modern, two-story and attic residence, finished in Georgia pine, which is one of the handsomest dwellings in the township. In politics Mr. Walker is a Republican and cast his first presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln. He is a stanch supporter of McKinley and his policy, and while a resident of White County was several times selected to represent his people in the Republican county and state conventions. Mr. and Mrs. Walker are both ardent friends of the public school system, and favor the employment of the highest grade teachers. He was elected trustee of West Point Township, White County, in 1883, and during his incumbency of that office was largely instrumental in securing the construction of several substancial bridges. In 1886 he was elected township ascessor, and was noted for his conscientious and scrupulous performance of the duties of the office. Mr. Walker is a member of Post No. 6, G. A. R., at Wabash, named in honor of J. H. Emmett. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church of the same city, and while a resident of White County was a member of the building committee of the Meadow Lake Presbyterian Church edifice. It is needless to add that Mr. and Mrs. Walker are among the leading and most highly respected residents of Noble Township, and that their accession as such is a matter of local pride and gratification to the entire community.

Taken from the 1901 Biographical Memoirs of Wabash County, Indiana.