Lyman Fessenden Walker (1836–1920)Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine 1636-1936: A History, William Hutchinson Rowe (1937) was an American shipwright during a prolific period at Yarmouth Harbor in Maine.Images of America: Yarmouth, Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.16Yarmouth Revisited, Amy Aldredge His shipyard was one of the four major ones during the town's peak years of 1850–1875."Yarmouth Historic Context Statement – Town of Yarmouth His shipyard launched forty vessels of all sizes.
Early life Walker was born in 1836, to Lyman Walker and Louisa Merchant.
Career After beginning as a shipwright, in 1841 he was recognized as a master builder.Merchant Sail, Volume 5, William Armstrong Fairburn (1945), p. 3159Shipbuilding Days in Casco Bay, 1727–1890, William Hutchinson Rowe (1966), p. 94
Death Walker died in 1920, aged 83 or 84.
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