James Walker, Civil War veteran and a well-known collector of minerals, died in a Brooklyn hospital, on Wednesday after a long illness. He was 91 years of age and had resided at 731 Lexington Avenue, Brooklyn.

A native of Ireland. Mr. Walker came to this country when a child and served in the war with the Anderson Zouaves, in the Sixty-second New York Volunteers; He was one of the few surviving members of Grant Post, 321, G. A. R. After the war he became connected with the experimental department of the Seth Thomas Clock Company, remaining with that concern for fifty-two years. He had collected a large and valuable horological library which he later presented to the company.

Mr. Walker was a former treasurer of the New York Microscopical Society and a member of the Brooklyn Mineralogical Club. About three years ago he donated his mineraligal collection to the Mineralogy Division of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum. 

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Anderson Zouaves Newspaper Clippings. 

Contributed by J. Tierney