WALKER, Francis Amass, American economist and soldier: b. Boston, 2 July 1840; d. there, 5 Jan. 1897. He was the son of Amasa Walker (q.v.), was graduated at Amherst in 1860, began the study of law, which he gave up to enlist in the 'Union army, and served through nearly the whole of the Civil War. His ranlc during the greater part of the war was that of lieutenant-colonel, and in 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. He taught Greek and Latin at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass., from 1865 to 1868, and in the latter year was con nected with the staff of the Springfield Re publican. After serving as head of the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department, in 1870 he was made superintendent of the ninth census and in 1872 became commissioner of Indian affairs. From 18'73 to 1881 he was pro fessor of political economy and history in the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale and in 1877 79 was lecturer at Johns Hopldns University. He was the representative of the United States at the International Monetary Conference, Paris, in 1878. In 1880 he was appointed super-.
intendent of the 10th census. Accepting the presidency of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech=loo, in 1881, he continued in that posi tion till his death. He was president of the American Statistical Association from 1882 to 1897 and of the American Economic Associa tion in 1885-92. He was an earnest advocate of international bimetallism, was deeply inter ested in all economic questions, particularly those conceruing wages and profits, upon which he. wrote with effective clearness and force. His work has exerted a marked influence upon economic study. His writings include 'The Indian Question' (11374); (The Wages Ques bon) (18'76); (Money' (1878); (Money in Its Relation to Trade and Industry' (1879); (Political Economy' (1883); (Land and Its Rent' (1883); (History of the Second Army C,orps) (1886) • 'Life of General Hancock) (1894); (The kaking of the Nation' (1895); and (International Bimetallism' (1896). Con sult (Publications of the American Statistical Association,' Vol. V (1896-97), for bibliog raphy and biographical notices.