Hiram Walker (4 July 1816 - 12 January 1899) was an American grocer and distiller, and the eponym of the famous distillery in Windsor, Ontario, Canada directly across from Detroit, Michigan. Walker founded the distillery in 1858 in what was then Walkerville, Ontario. Walker was born July 4, 1816 in East Douglas, Massachusetts, and moved to Detroit in the mid-1830s. He purchased land across the river, just east of what was Windsor, Ontario, … Wikipedia
WALKER , HIRAM , businessman and philanthropist; b. 4July1816 in Douglas, Mass., son of Willis Walker and Ruth Buffum; m. 5Oct.1846 Mary Abigail Williams, and they had five sons and two daughters; d.12Jan.1899 in Detroit. www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=40606
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