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Excerpt from Quarterly Publication of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio, Vol. 7: Journal of Miss. Susan Walker, March 3d to June 6th, 1862
Miss Walker was, for years, employed by the coast survey office, then under charge of her brother, Sears Cook Walker, as a mathematical ex pert, making computations of an elaborate and difficult character.
During the war Miss Walker was well known as a leader in the care of soldiers and the education of the freedmen. Several of the measures providing for the latter owe their success directly to her. Sumner, Seward, Chase, Wade, Stanton, Hale, Lovejoy and Colfax were among her chief advisers and with whom she held frequent consultations. Another brother was Judge Timothy Walker of Cincinnati, an eminent lawyer and author of Walker's Introduction to American Law. She was a woman of somewhat masculine appearance, with a large frame, dominated by a powerful intellect, and unusually quick sympathies.
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