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Genealogical History Of Hudson And Bergen Counties New Jersey
HERMAN WALKER

Originally published in 1900
Cornelius Burnham Harvey, Editor


Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2003

HERMAN WALKER, Mayor of the Town of Guttenberg, is one of the most prominent citizens of Hudson County, N. J. This is true alike of his business career and influence, and of his activity in political and public life. Since 1878 he has been extensively engaged in the real estate business, acquiring property throughout Northern Hudson and Southern Bergen Counties. He became chief owner of such well known tracts of land as Highwood Park, Eldorado, Grand View, Hudson Heights, Bergenwood Park, Cliffside Park, and others, having just taken title to the Van Worst tract in West New York, containing 345 lots. He was chiefly active in the creation of what now constitutes the choicest section of Union Township. He was President of Eldorado, the famous amusement resort, and was one of its originators and second largest stockholder. He is President of the North Hudson Land Company, of the New York and Rochester Steel Mat Company, and of the Hudson View Land Company. He is an officer and stockholder in many more corporations. In 1890-91 he was Vice-President of the New Jersey State Firemen's Association. He is a member of the Union League Club and other organizations.

Mr. Walker is one of the most influential leaders of the Republican party in Hudson County. He has been a delegate to nearly every New Jersey Republican State Convention since 1871, and for twenty years he has been a member of the Hudson County Republican General Committee. As the candidate of the Republican party and Jeffersonian Democrats for County Clerk of Hudson County in 1889 he was rightfully elected, but was one of those who were defrauded by the notable election frauds of that year. In Democratic Guttenberg, however, his popularity is such that he has never failed of election to any of the many offices for which he has been a candidate. In 1878 he was Assessor and Clerk of the Joint Committee to set off the Town of Guttenberg from the Township of Union. From 1878 to April, 1886, he was Town Clerk of Guttenberg. From 1881 to 1886 he was Town Recorder, and again, from 1888 to 1895, held the same office. He was a member of the Board of Councilmen in 1856, 188'7, 1897, and 1898, and held the position of Chairman of the board in 1886 and again in 1897 and 1898. He was Justice of the Peace from 1879 to 1899, and as Chairman of the Board of Councilmen is by courtesy called Mayor.

The son of Frederick and Barbara Walker, natives of Germany, Mr. Walker was himself born in New York City, April 21, 1850. He attended the schools of New York City and Guttenberg – his parents having removed to the latter place in 1860 – until he was fourteen years of age, when he entered the office of his father, who conducted in New York a successful business as a manufacturer. At seventeen years of age Mr. Walker assumed the management of this business, in which he showed marked ability. He began investing in real estate in Hudson and Bergen Counties, however, and since 1878 has devoted himself exclusively to this business. On August 26, 1875, he married, at Guttenberg, Diana H., daughter of John and Diana Behrens, and has four sons and two daughters.

Throughout his business career Mr. Walker has exhibited a remarkably progressive and enterprising spirit, and has been active in securing and sugesting the execution of projects of great public interest. He conceived the plan of preserving the Palisades by the construction of a grand boulevard along the entire edge of the bluff, making the most magnificent driveway in the world. He also conceived the plan of the consolidation into one large municipality of the various towns and villages in Northern Hudson and Southern Bergen Counties. He was one of the large donators of land for the building of the present loop of the County Road, under the act requiring a donation of two-thirds of the right of way before the work could be undertaken. At his suggestion the route was changed so as to pass through Highwood Park, instead of through West Hoboken, as originally contemplated. Some time ago he acquired a brewery in Guttenberg, with thirteen lots and buildings, which had been inactive for several years, but through his efforts a New York syndicate was formed and the plant sold to a stock company and is now successfully operated

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