Person:Robert Walker (83)

The following is for a different Robert Walker who lived in Johnson County Iowa. The James, Joseph, and Henry who came to Johnson County Iowa, are mentioned several times as early settlers of the County, and identified as brothers, in this same work, but no mention is made of a brother Robert. Most likely the inclusion of Robert as a brother is based on a mistaken identification of Justice Robert Walker who was born in New York.

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Google Books, History of Johnson County, Iowa

ROBERT WALKER, born in Schenectady county, N. Y., Oct. 4, 1802; died Oct. 28, 1879, in Johnson county, Iowa. Mr. Walker came to Johnson county in 1838, and was the first justice of the peace of Johnson county, Iowa. In that official capacity he administered the oath of office to the Capital Commissioners who located the territorial capital on what is now Iowa City. In 1853, he married a sister of Hon. Le Grand Byington, who survives him. In 1860, he moved upon his farm near Tiffin, where he died. During all his long life and his residence of forty-one years he worthily filled an influential position, and earned and deserved the respect which was accorded him.'