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Jesse Walker

(1810-1850)
Vermont & New York

Jesse Walker "was born in Whiting, in 1810, and was graduated at Middlebury College in 1833. He studied law, and in 1835 moved to Buffalo, N.Y., where he opened an office and became prominent as a lawyer and popular as a poet. He held various political offices, being, at the time of his death a judge of Erie County Court. He died in 1850, and four years later his gathered verse was published under the title, 'Poems, written during his early professionals, years, by Hon. Jesse Walker, with a brief notice by Rev. Montgomery Schuyler." [Walter John Coates & Frederick Tupper (eds.), Vermont Verse: An Anthology 253 (Brattleboro: Stephen Daye Press, 1931)]

Poetry

Jesse Walker, Poems Written During His Early Professional Years (Buffalo [New York]: Phinney & Co., 1854) [online text]

Writings

Jesse Walker, Fort Niagara, a Tale of the Niagara Frontier (Buffalo [New York]: Steele's Press, 1845)(2nd ed., 1851)

__________, Queenston a Tale of the Niagara Frontier (Buffalo [New York]: Steele's Press, 1845)

__________, Tales of the Niagara Frontier (Buffalo [New York]: Steele's Press, 1845) [In two parts, bound together, probably as issued. With no general t.p., but each part with a special t.p. Spine-title: Niagara frontier. Special t.p. to pt. 2 with Buffalo in imprint, but copyright notice on verso is for New York]