Forest Grove Indian School

Levi and Belle Walker and Family

A portrait of Levi and Belle Walker and their daughters Leva and Elda, probably taken around 1901. The Walkers were a prominent family in Forest Grove, Oregon, that had helped to found Pacific University. Levi's parents, Elkanah and Mary Richardson Walker, were two of the earliest missionaries in the Oregon Territory, having arrived in 1838 and founding a mission among the Spokane. Many members of their extended family were involved in missionary and educational work. Levi and Belle, who were both graduates of Pacific University, worked at the Forest Grove Indian Training School in the 1880s. This portrait was probably made around the time when the two daughters, Elda and Leva, graduated from Pacific. They would go on to earn Ph.D.'s. The sisters became professors of botany at the University of Nebraska.
From the left counterclockwise: Sarah 'Belle' Putman Walker, Leva Walker, Levi C. Walker, and Elda Walker.

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