Walker, retired from that business and.again began the manufacture of reapers, which he continued till 1860 and than suspended, and since that time has. not been engaged in active business ; he held the position of route agent from 1861 till 1865, and then resigned his position and retired from business altogether and has done nothing since ; he owns four lots in the city with tenement houses, and has an annual income from them sufficient to live on. He was married in York State, in 1830, to Nancy Smith, and they had one child, now dead ; his wife died in Beloit, December 25, 1870 ; he was married again, in Erie Co., N. Y., in 1871, to Mrs.