The subject of our sketch was born in Brooksville, Bracken County, Kentucky, and lived there for thirty years. He attended the public schools, and at an early age learned the carpenter's trade with his father. He enlisted in the Confederate army during the Civil War, and at its close returned to Brooksville and again took up carpentering, but shortly afterwards engaged in a manufacturing enterprise that proved profitable for a time. In 1870 he bought out the drug store of Dr. J. D. Wallins, and conducted that business for several years, when he attended the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, from which institution he was graduated and returned to his drug business, practicing medicine in connection with the same. At that time Bracken County produced large quantities of tobacco, and he became interested in buying tobacco together with his other duties, becoming so much interested in this latter enterprise that he devoted his whole energies to this industry. Becoming interested in politics, he was elected chief of police for a term of two years, at the end of which time he was elected sheriff, and served as such for two years, continuing all the time to handle leaf tobacco. Being successful, he sought a larger field and went to Cincinnati, where he conducted a leaf tobacco brokerage business, and while meeting with success, he was induced to take the road for a large plug and twist tobacco manufacturer. While on the road he was induced to move to Lexington, where he organized the Blue Grass Tobacco Company in 1886, and for about eighteen years he superintended that business, until recently he established the White Plume Tobacco Company at Lexington, of which he is now the manager. Brother Walker was a charter member of Winona Tribe, No. 4, of Lexington, and received the honors of a Past Sachem by virtue of being its first Keeper of Wampum, which position he held during the existence of the Tribe. He was admitted to the Great Council in 1895, and was elected Great Keeper of Wampum in 1897, serving as such for five consecutive great suns, and in 1892 was granted the honors of a Past Great Sachem and elected Great Representative to the Great Council of the United States for two great suns. He is now a member of Miantonomo Tribe, No. 1, is a regular attendant at the sessions of the Great Council, and has the good will and confidence of every member of that Great Body. [Illustration: WILLIAM CREERE PELHAM] =PAST GREAT SACHEM WILLIAM CREERE PELHAM= 1902-3