An Embarrassment of Riches
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Alexander Hamilton was killed in a duel by his arch-rival, Vice President Aaron Burr, in July 1804, the same year as our return from the wilderness.
SAMUEL WALKER: A CHRONOLOGY
1783 Born October 19 to John and Sophia (Lyon) Walker, at Owl’s Crossing, Pennsylvania.
1787 Family moved to Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York.
1791 Entered Lupino’s Academy, Oyster Bay.
1801 Entered Columbia College, New York City.
1802 Expelled.
1803 Commissioned by President Jefferson to search southern territories and procure specimen of giant sloth (megatherium).
1804 Began studies under Charles Willson Peale at Philadelphia.
1808 Completed studies under Peale. Portrait of Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin.
1809 First journey to Adirondack Mountains, New York. “Lake George, Maelstrom,” painted.
1815 Second journey to Adirondacks. “The Keene Valley,” “Lake Champlain,” “Tahawus.”
1818 Married Jane Woodruff. First child, Martha.
1820 First western expedition: Missouri River, portraits of Sioux, Minnetaree, Crows.
1821 Second daughter, Margaret.
1822 Third Adirondack summer. “Whiteface.”
1830 Second western tour. Rocky Mountains. Cloud portraits. Pawnees and Shoshonees.
1832 Third daughter, Lucy. Elected American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
1835 South American expedition. The Andes. “El Dorado.”
1840 European tour. “Mont Blanc.” “The Po Valley.” “View of the Campagna.”
1843 Northern Canada, the subarctic. Hudson’s Bay. “The Aurora Borealis.”
1847 Fourth Adirondack summer. Ausable River. “Speckled Trout.”
1848 Portraits of Daniel Webster, President Polk.
1859 Died, December 26, at Oyster Bay, New York.
1 William Bartram, Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, and East and West Florida. Philadelphia: James and Johnson, 1790.