President Bush's Roots Extend to Beloit
It's the whole truth and nothing but: U.S. President George W. Bush can trace his roots to Beloit. His great-great-grandfather, David Davis Walker of Bloomington, Ill., attended the Beloit Preparatory Department and Academy. He was in the "Normal and English" section when he attended in 1854 and 1855; he started his career in 1857 in dry goods, then began his own brokerage house in St. Louis. A modern-day relative, Christopher T. walker from Hamden, Conn., was tracing his family history in 1983 when he contacted the College about the lineage.
If Beloit College, where the President's ancestor attended, is called the "Yale of the Midwest," then Yale, his descendants' alma mater, surely must be known in their family as the "Beloit of the East."
Click on the following for more details: Beloit College Magazine: News, page 12
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