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Walker Anderson

(Born: July 18, 1801 - Died: January 18, 1857)

American lawyer, educator, jurist and orator. He was born in Petersburg, VA. His parents were Mary Reid Cameron and Daniel Anderson. He married Phoebe Hawks of New Bern, NC in 1822. He taught History and English a the University of North Carolina in 1831 and 1832. He moved to Pensacola, FL in 1835. He served as the 6th justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, 1851-1853. He died in 1857, and is buried in St. John's Cemetary, in Pensacola, FL.


	Criticism *(Texts and Variant Texts)* Review of Oration on the Life and Character of the Rev. Joseph Caldwell, D. D. (December 1835, text "A" — Southern Literary Messenger)

Bibliography:

Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.

Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)

Manley, Walter W., II, E. Canter Brown, Jr., and Eric. W. Rise, etc., The Supreme Court of Florida and Its Predecessor Courts, 1821-1917, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997, pp. 140-145 ??

Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.

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