DR. FRANK ANTHONY WALKE.
One of the leading members of the
medical profession of Norfolk,Virginia, whose
portrait appears here with, comes of a very
prominent Virginia family. He was born in
Princess Anne County, Virginia October 1,
1831and traces his ancestry back to Sir
Thomas Walke, an admiral of the Dutch Navy,
who landed on the shores of Chesapeake Bay
in the immediate vicinity of Norfolk, in 1632.
There were three members of the House of
Burgesses bearing the name of Anthony Walke
in the first half of the eighteenth century.
One of these married Jane Randolph, of Curl's
Neck, Virginia, on the James River. She was
a granddaughter of Thomas Rolfe, a son of
Pocahontas.

Dr. Walke's father, John Newton Walke,
was a farmer in Princess Anne County. He
married Mary Land, also a native of
Princess Anne County, He died at the age
of 31 years and his wife at the age of 18
years. John Randolph, the "Sage of Roanoke,"
was related to the Walke family, being a
nephew of James Randolph, wife of Anthony
Walke.

Dr. Walke was educated in the schools of
Norfolk, Norfolk County, Virginia; in
Jefferson County, Virginia ( now West
Virginia);at the high school at
Alexandria, Virginia; at Concord Academy,
in Caroline County,Virginia; and at the Universities of Virginia and of Pennsylvania.
He took a course in medicine in the
latter institution and graduated in the
class of 1851. He then entered the
United States Navy as assistant surgeon,
his first service being on the old warship,
"Princeton." He was stationed at the
U. S. Naval Hospital at Portsmouth, in
1855, and went through the yellow fever
epidemic of that year. The hospital was
thrown open to the afflicted, and the city
of Portsmouth presented Dr. Walke with a
gold medal as a token of appreciation of
his services. In 1857 he left the navy
and opened a drug store in Norfolk, also
engaging in the practice of medicine.
After the breaking out of the Intersectional
War in 1861, he joined the Confederate Army
as a member of the 13th North Carolina
Regiment, with the rank of surgeon.At the
end of six months he was transferred to
the 46th Regiment, Virginia Infantry and
served in that command until the surrender
at Appomattox. He then returned to Norfolk
and resumed his practice.He subsequently
lived and practiced in Charles City County,
and Appomattox County but returned to
Norfolk in 1878. He opened another drug
store, which he conducted until 1898,
since which time he has devoted his
entire time to the practice of medicine.

Dr. Walke is surgeon of Pickett-Buchanan
Camp, Confederate Veterans, of Norfolk, and
is surgeon general of the United Confederate
Veterans of Virginia. He has been twice mar-
ried, first in 1852, to Anna Maria Baylor.
He was again married in November, 1896,
to Belle W. Tunstall, but has no children
by either union.
From History of Norfolk County