Early Life
Walker was born November 28, 1889 in Waterbury, Connecticut. He attended Classical High School in Providence, Rhode Island, and attended the architecture school at M.I.T. as a member of the class of 1911; he left during his final semester before graduating. He was a Rotch Traveling Scholar in 1916. He married Stella Forbes, of Providence, in 1913.
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