Reuben E. Walker (1851-1922) was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, and died in Concord, New Hampshire. In 1875 he graduated from Brown University and married Mary E. Walker (b. Brown) in Providence, Rhode Island. He was admitted to the bar in 1878 and practiced law in Concord. Walker served as county solicitor from 1889 to 1891, was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1895 and of the Constitutional Convention in 1902, and in 1901 he became associate justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1916, and his alma mater also awarded him the same in 1921. His long and distinguished service on the bench ended in 1921 by statute limitation on his seventieth birthday.
At the time of his death, Walker was president of the New Hampshire Bar Association and vice-president of the New Hampshire branch of the American Bar Association. Along with his law partner Frank S. Streeter, Walker was one of Mary Baker Eddy's lawyers and was also considered her friend. He obtained the charter for the Church of Christ (Scientist) in 1879, handled the transfer of land for The Mother Church in 1889 and established a Board of Trustees for managing the property, facilitated conveying it to another board of trustees thereby establishing The Christian Science Board of Directors, helped reorganize and recharter the church as The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1892, incorporated The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Concord, New Hampshire, in 1899, and also dealt with deeds concerning Eddy's estates.
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Reuben E. Walker (1851-1922) was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, and died in Concord, New Hampshire. In 1875 he graduated from Brown University and married Mary E. Walker (b. Brown) in Providence, Rhode Island. He was admitted to the bar in 1878 and practiced law in Concord. Walker served as county solicitor from 1889 to 1891, was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1895 and of the Constitutional Convention in 1902, and in 1901 he became associate justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1916, and his alma mater also awarded him the same in 1921. His long and distinguished service on the bench ended in 1921 by statute limitation on his seventieth birthday.
At the time of his death, Walker was president of the New Hampshire Bar Association and vice-president of the New Hampshire branch of the American Bar Association. Along with his law partner Frank S. Streeter, Walker was one of Mary Baker Eddy's lawyers and was also considered her friend. He obtained the charter for the Church of Christ (Scientist) in 1879, handled the transfer of land for The Mother Church in 1889 and established a Board of Trustees for managing the property, facilitated conveying it to another board of trustees thereby establishing The Christian Science Board of Directors, helped reorganize and recharter the church as The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1892, incorporated The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Concord, New Hampshire, in 1899, and also dealt with deeds concerning Eddy's estates.
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