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Biographical Record of Houghton, Baraga and Marquette Counties
Biographical Publishing Co., Chicago; 1903

Page 18-21

                         WILLIAM WALLS

     WILLIAM WALLS, register of deeds of Houghton County, Michigan,
  is an efficient officer and a highly respected citizen, making his
  home in the town of Houghton.  He was born in Cornwall, England,
  in 1846, and was brought by his parents to this country in 1850.
  Both of his parents are now dead, and he has one brother and four
  sisters living, the brother being located in the West.
  
     WILLIAM WALLS located in New York with his parents in 1850, then
  went with them to Chester County, Pennsylvania, being reared and
  educated near Westchester.  He began to work in the iron mines of
  Pennsylvania when 12 years of age, and upon removing to the Northern
  Peninsula of Michigan and locating in what is now Keweenaw County,
  in 1862, followed mining.  A few years later he located in Houghton
  County, and for a number of years engaged in merchandising at Red
  Jacket, continuing there until about 1896.  He was then for two years
  treasurer of Calumet township, the richest in the county.  In the 
  fall of 1898 he was elected register of deeds of Houghton County,
  and assumed the duties of office January 1, 1899.  He served faith-
  fully and efficiently in that capacity, and was rewarded by re-
  election to that office.  He has always been a stanch Republican
  in politics, never swerving in his allegiance to that party.
  
     Mr. WALLS was joined in the bonds of matrimony with Miss GARDNER,
  of Keweenaw County, Michigan, and they have four children, - three
  daughters and one son.  The eldest daughter acts as her father's 
  deputy, and the others are in school.  Fraternally Mr. WALLS is a
  member of Houghton Lodge, A. F. & A. M.; and Hancock Chapter, 
  R. A. M.  Religiously that family favors the Methodist Episcopal
  Church.
   
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