Source: "Historical Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal
Memoirs of Chester and Delaware Counties, Pennsylvania", Vol. 2, edited by
Gilbert Cope and Henry Graham Ashmead, published by The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1904, page 390.

"CHARLES T. WALTER, an enterprising and energetic agriculturist and public-
spirited citizen of London Grove township, Chester county, Pennsylvania, who
has been prominently identified with the material progress and prosperity of
that section of the state, is a son of Townsend Walter, who is now retired
from active business pursuits and resides at West Chester, Chester county.

"Charles T. Walter was born in New Garden township, Chester county, Pennsyl-
vania, in 1852, and, during his boyhood he attended the common schools of the
neighborhood.  In 1871, the year of the opening of the West Chester State
Normal School, with Ezekial H. Cook, a graduate of Bowdoin College, as prin-
cipal, and a strong faculty of teachers, Charles T. became a student, and in
this noted institution he completed his education.  His tastes and inclina-
tions induced him to adopt agricultural pursuits as his vocation in life, and
this line of industry he pursued in the following named places - Pocopson,
the Johnson farm in Birmingham township, and the old homestead in Westtown
township.  The following two years he was engaged in the nursery business at
Willowdale, but his former occupation being preferable to this, in 1900 he
located in London Grove township on a sixty-four acre tract of the Swayne
estate.  This piece of property, known as Hope Glen Farm, is well improved
and under a high state of cultivation, and in addition to the production of a
general line of farm products he operated a dairy of twenty head of well
selected stock.  In politics Mr. Walter is an independent Republican, and he
served as a member of the school board of Westtown township.  He is a member
of the Brandywine Grange and of the Order of Heptasophs.

"In 1872, Mr. Walter married Margaret Barnard, daughter of Charles and Eliza-
beth (Swayne) Barnard, of Newlin township, Chester county, Pennsylvania.
Three children have been born of this union, all of whom reside at home with
their parents - Elizabeth, Mabel, and Townsend Walter.  Mr. Walter and his
family attend the meetings of the Society of Friends, in which they take an
active and prominent part."