Name Timothy Walker | ||
Timothy Walker (December 1, 1802 – January 15, 1856) was an American lawyer who founded the Cincinnati Law School and was its first Dean.
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Biography
Timothy Walker was born in Wilmington, Massachusetts, US, and graduated from Harvard in 1826. From 1826 to 1829 he taught mathematics, and he studied law at Harvard Law School 1829 and 1830. In 1831 he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was admitted to the bar and started a practice.
In 1833, Walker, along with Edward King and John C. Wright, founded the Cincinnati Law School, the first law school in the West. Walker served as Dean, and continued in that position when the school merged with Cincinnati College in 1835. He was Dean 1833 to 1844.
Walker was President Judge of the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas, founded the Western Law Journal in 1843, and was its editor. His Introduction to American Law (1837, revised several times) was for many years "the most generally used text-book in the country". This book earned him the title "The American Blackstone". Walker wrote a number of other historical and legal books. He was given the degree LL.D. by Harvard in 1854, and was the Phi Beta Kappa orator at that institution in 1850.
Timothy Walker died in Cincinnati in 1856.
Family
Judge Walker was first married at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 9, 1832. His first wife died in Cincinnati in 1834. He married Eleanor Page Wood in Cincinnati on March 11, 1840. Their daughter, Susan, married Nicholas Longworth II, a wealthy Cincinnati judge and member of the Longworth family. Susan's son, Nicholas Longworth would become Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
Sears Cook Walker was Timothy's brother.