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Inventory of the Walker, Spinning, and Durrell Families Papers
D-226
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Creator:
Walker family
Spinning family
Durrell family
Title: Walker, Spinning, and Durrell Families Papers
Date (inclusive): 1862-1955
Extent:
1.2 linear feet
Abstract: A family history collection which contains correspondence, photographs, and
scrapbooks pertaining to the Walker, Spinning, and Durrell families, who are related by marriage. The
correspondence includes three letters from and one letter to Hiram Walker, while he was a Union soldier
in the U.S. Civil War and five letters from Hiram's daughter, Emma (Walker) Heron, while she was a
missionary in India.
Physical location: Researchers should contact Special Collections to request collections, as
many are stored offsite.
Repository:
University of California, Davis. General Library. Department of
Special Collections.
Davis, California 95616-5292
Collection number: D-226
Language of Material: Collection materials in English.
Hiram Walker (1843-1921) served as a soldier in the United States Civil War. On December 31, 1865 he
married Sarah Charity Willis (1847-1920) in Ohio.
Their daughter, Emma (1866?-April 2, 1897), served as a missionary in India with the International
Missionary Alliance from 1891-1897. Circa 1894-1895, Emma married Donald Heron (d. January 30, 1896),
also a missionary with the Alliance in India.
Another daughter, Anna, married William Simpson Spinning on December 31, 1902 in Duluth, Minnesota. Anna
and William had two children: Marian Frances Spinning (1912- ) and Helen Margaret Spinning (1914-1983).
On May 22, 1938 Helen married Cordell Durrell (1908-1986). Cordell served as Professor of Geology at the
University of California, Davis from 1963 to 1976.
Sources consulted:
Christian Missionary Alliance. Nyack, NY: Christian Alliance, June 18, 1897, v. 28 no. 25.
The papers contain correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, and memorabilia of the Walker, Spinning, and
Durrell families, who are related by marriage.
The correspondence series includes three letters from and one letter to Hiram Walker, while he was a
Union soldier in the U.S. Civil War and five letters from Hiram's daughter, Emma (Walker) Heron, while
she was a missionary in India during the 1890s.
Series 2, Scrapbooks, contains five scrapbooks compiled by Anna Walker Spinning and her daughter, Helen
Spinning which document three generations of the families.
The Papers are arranged into five series: Correspondence, Scrapbooks, Photographs, Artwork, and Memorabilia.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online
public access catalog.
Walker family--Archives.
Spinning family--Archives.
Durrell family--Archives.
Walker, Hiram, 1843-1921
Heron, Emma Walker, d. 1897
Durrell, Cordell, 1908-
United States-History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
Women missionaries--India
University of California, Berkeley--Pictorial works
Collection is open for research.
Sara Gunasekara processed these papers and created and encoded this finding aid.
[Identification of item], Walker, Spinning, and Durrell Families Papers, D-226, Department of Special
Collections, General Library, University of California, Davis.
Copyright is protected by the copyright law, chapter 17, of the U.S. Code. All requests for permission to
publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections.
Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections, General Library,
University of California, Davis as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or
imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.