Walker, FRANCIS AMASA (1840-1897), an American economist and statistician, born at Boston, Mass., the son of Amasa Walker. he graduated at Amherst College and afterward studied law. He served in the Union army in the Civil War and was made brigadier general for gallantry at Chancellorsville, where he was wounded. From 1865 to 1867 he taught Latin and Greek at Williston Seminary, and in 1869 he was appointed chief of the bureau of statistics at Washington. Mr. Walker supervised the census of 1870, was appointed United States Indian commissioner in 1872 and from 1873 to 1881 was professor of political economy in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College. In the latter year he became president of the Masschusetts Institute of Technology. He published many works, including volumes on the Indian Question, Political Economy, The Wages Question, Money, International Bimetallism and The Making of the Nation.