Duncan S. Walker

Walker was a son of Jonathan Hoge Walker and Lucy Duncan who were married in 1790.^[1] Duncan S. Walker was their second of eight children and the oldest who survived to adulthood.^[2] Walker was originally from the Carlisle, Pennsylvania area and moved to Mississippi with his brother Robert J. Walker in the 1820s.^[3] Their prosperous cousin Stephen Duncan already lived in the lower Mississippi River valley.^[3] He, like his brother, was a Jacksonian Democrat.^[3]

In 1824 he was selected as a second lieutenant of the Natchez Fencibles militia company.^[4]

In 1828, Walker ran for a seat in the Mississippi House of Representatives from Adams County.^[5][6][7] He served in the 12th Mississippi legislature.^[8] He later moved to Louisiana where he owned a plantation.^[8]

He died of a pulmonary illness off Cuba in winter 1835 at age 42.^[8][9]

• Power, Steve (1897). The memento, old and new Natchez, 1700 to 1897. Old and new Natchez, 1700 to 1897. Natchez, Miss.: Myrtle Bank Publishers. LCCN 84061565. OCLC 2920774.
• Rothstein, Morton (1979). "The Changing Social Networks and Investment Behavior of a Slaveholding Elite in the Ante Bellum South: Some Natchez Nabobs, 1800–1860". In Greenfield, Sidney M.; Strickon, Arnold; Aubey, Robert T. (eds.). Entrepreneurs in Cultural Context. School of American Research, Advanced Seminar Series. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. pp. 65–88. ISBN 978-0-8263-0504-6. LCCN 78021433. OCLC 4859059.

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