Platt D. Walker

[1][4] He obtained his license to practice law at the June 1870 term of the state supreme court, gaining admission to the bar in North Carolina and settling at Rockingham in 1870.

[4] He moved to Charlotte in 1876, and formed a law practice with Clement Dowd, also afterwards member of Congress, joined in November 1880 by Armistead Burwell, afterwards a justice of the state supreme court, and in 1892 be E. T.

[4] In January 1903, Walker became an associate justice of a substantially reconfigured Supreme Court of North Carolina.

[1] On June 5, 1878, Walker married Henrietta Settle Covington in Reidsville, North Carolina.

[3] Walker died at his home in Raleigh, North Carolina, following an illness of one week and complications arising from his kidneys.