Biographical Sketch of Reverend Thomas H.B. Walker in The Florida Negro Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Florida Transcription, encoding and edition Lucia Mylius Edition Laura Heffernan Edition Tru Leverette Edition Clayton McCarl

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https://violamuse.unfdhi.org/items/show/104 USA Florida Jacksonville Biographical sketch of the Reverend Thomas H.B. Walker found on p. 151-152 of the manuscript copy of The Florida Negro housed in the State Archives of Florida (S1585) and available through the Florida Memory website of the State Library and Archives of Florida

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Thomas H. B. Walker

Thomas Walker is the author of several books of prose and verse. Among these are <hi style="underline">Crowther of Sierra Leone</hi>, See Crowther of Sierra Leone. which is used as a text in the schools of Liberia; <hi style="underline">Presidents of Liberia</hi>, for students, containing sketches of the presidents and some of the leaders of Liberia; andWe have added and.two novels, <hi style="underline">Man without Blemish</hi>, See Man Without Blemish. and <hi style="underline">J. Johnson, or <title level="a">the Unknown Man. He has re–writtenrewritten <choice><orig>the book</orig><reg>The Book</reg></choice> of Revelations in metrical form, and has also composed a poem, <hi style="underline">To my Sweet Little Girl.</hi> Some of his books have had a wide circulation:; over 15,000 copies of <hi style="underline">Man Without<lb/> Blemish</hi> and about the same number of <hi style="underline">Presidents of Liberia</hi> have been sold.

Dr. Walker was born in Tallahassee, received his early education there, and began preaching before he was 16sixteen years old. He attended school in Jack—sonville, Clark University, and Gammon Thelogical Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia. He has traveled extensively and lectured in cities as far away as Paris, France. He has pastored several prominent Methodist Episcopal churches in Florida. The title K.C.Knight Commander was conferred upon him by the republicRepublic of Liberia. He is the only Florida Negro minister mentioned in <hi style="underline">Who's Who in Methodism</hi>.