John Walker (industrialist), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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industrialist
Date of Birth: 23-Nov-1843
Date of Death: 23-Jun-1932
Profession: businessperson
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About John Walker (industrialist)
- John Walker (1843–1932) was a prominent iron and steel industrialist in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the early 20th century.
- He was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, now known as Pittsburgh's North Side.
- His father was a Scottish immigrant.
- He was a boyhood friend of Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick; all three of them grew up to be steel industrialists.Walker founded Wilson, Walker & Co.
- in 1872, a company producing bar iron, railroad car forgings, and rail plates.
- In 1886, the company was bought by Carnegie, Phipps & Company and Walker became chairman of the board.
- As a director of Frick Coke Co., he sided with Frick over Carnegie in their clash to control American steel production.
- Carnegie offered Walker a $3,000,000 share of Carnegie Steel to change sides; Walker refused to double-cross his friend Frick.
- Walker retired in 1888.Walker lived in a mansion on Western Avenue in Pittsburgh's North Side neighborhood.At Walker's death in 1932, he was one of the last surviving steel masters in Pittsburgh.
- When Walker died, his family donated his private library to Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania.
- The entire library was installed in the Thompson Library exactly as it had been—including an extensive collection of books, bookcases, pictures, furniture, chandeliers, and stained-glass lamps.
- When the U.
- Grant Miller Library replaced Thompson Library as the college library in 1965, the room was moved to the new facility, again exactly as it had been during Walker's life.
- The room is generally used for study and reading.
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