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Walker, Francis Amasa 1840-1897
Military officer; born in Boston, Mass., July 2, 1840; graduated at Amherst College in 1860, and began the study of law, but engaged in the military service in the spring of 1861, in the 15th Massachusetts Volunteers.
In September he was assistant adjutant-general of Couch's brigade and adjutant-general of his division in August, 1862.
In December he became colonel on the staff of the 2d Army Corps, serving in the Army of the Potomac.
He was wounded at Chancellorsville; was made prisoner at Ream's Station, Va., and confined in Libby prison; and when exchanged in 1865 was compelled to resign on account of shattered health.
He was in charge of the bureau of statistics in Washington, D. C.; superintendent of the census of 1870 and 1880; chief of the bureau of awards at the Centennial Exposition; Professor of Political Economy and History in the Sheffield Scientific School in 1873-81; and then became president of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech