On January 10, 1890, Walker became ill and for the next five days was being treated for pneumonia. Doctors had no reason to believe that he would not make a full recovery. On the evening of the 15th, President Harrison came to the home of James Blaine to inquire on Walker's condition and was told that doctors felt his condition was improving. An hour and half later the President was notified by phone that Walker had died suddenly. According to an account in the New York Times, "the news of the death spread like wildfire and very soon callers began to reach the house to offer condolences. Nearly every member of the President's Cabinet, members of the Congressional Delegation from Maine and scores of others...many of them in full evening dress, having hastened there from receptions and dinner parties." Walker never married or had children. He was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington D.C. The burial site having been chosen by his father was near the little red sandstone chapel overlooking Rock Creek. His sister Alice Blaine Coppinger died just three weeks after him and was buried next to her brother at Oak Hill Cemetery.
Bio: By Paula Lucy Delosh: A lawyer, son of James Gillespie Blaine,(journalist and United States Senator) and wife Harriet S. Brother of Alice S., Margaret J. and Harriet S. Blaine.
On January 10, 1890, Walker became ill and for the next five days was being treated for pneumonia. Doctors had no reason to believe that he would not make a full recovery. On the evening of the 15th, President Harrison came to the home of James Blaine to inquire on Walker's condition and was told that doctors felt his condition was improving. An hour and half later the President was notified by phone that Walker had died suddenly. According to an account in the New York Times, "the news of the death spread like wildfire and very soon callers began to reach the house to offer condolences. Nearly every member of the President's Cabinet, members of the Congressional Delegation from Maine and scores of others...many of them in full evening dress, having hastened there from receptions and dinner parties." Walker never married or had children. He was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington D.C. The burial site having been chosen by his father was near the little red sandstone chapel overlooking Rock Creek. His sister Alice Blaine Coppinger died just three weeks after him and was buried next to her brother at Oak Hill Cemetery.
Bio: By Paula Lucy Delosh: A lawyer, son of James Gillespie Blaine,(journalist and United States Senator) and wife Harriet S. Brother of Alice S., Margaret J. and Harriet S. Blaine.
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WALKER BLAINE / born / at Augusta, Maine / May 8, 1855 / died / at Washington / January 15, 1890. [Foot: W.B.]
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