Biography
He was born in 1848 to William Thompson Walters. He graduated from Georgetown University in 1869 and went on to enroll in the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard University from 1869-1872. In 1889 he moved to Wilmington, North Carolina, to serve as general manager of his father's railroad. Following William's death in 1894, he was elected president of the Atlantic Coast Line Company and transferred the line's headquarters to New York. Under his leadership the railroad experienced rapid growth until World War I. In 1902 he took control of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
In New York, Henry lived with Pembroke and Sarah Jones, a couple he had met in Wilmington, North Carolina. Seldom did Walters return to Baltimore other than to attend board meetings of the Safe Deposit and Trust Company. Three years after Pembroke Jones' death in 1919, Henry married Sarah and they continued living in the Manhattan house surrounded by their art collections.
He died in 1931.
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