Walter King Sharpe and Helen McKeehan Cook

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Husband Walter King Sharpe ^{1 2}

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           Born: 24 Dec 1863 1 3
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         Father: Hon. John McDowell Sharpe (1830-1883) 4 5 6
         Mother: Emma L. King (      -Aft 1887) 7 8

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       Marriage: 6 May 1897 3

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Wife Helen McKeehan Cook ³

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         Father: Jeremiah Cook (Abt 1838-1884) 3 9
         Mother: Jennie McKeehan (      -      ) 10

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Children

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1 M John McDowell Sharpe ³

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2 F Winifred Sharpe ³

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General Notes: Husband - Walter King Sharpe

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He was prepared for college at the Chambersburg Academy under Dr. J. H. Shumaker. He then entered Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, from which he was graduated in 1882. He subsequently entered Princeton College, but the death of his father in 1883 necessitated his return to Chambersburg to assist in the settlement of the estate. In the autumn of 1884 he went to Europe, where he remained for nearly a year. Upon his return in 1885, he entered the office of the Hon. John Stewart, as a student-at-law, and was admitted to the Franklin County Bar at the February term, 1889. He thereafter practiced his profession in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. When he first began the practice, he associated himself with his cousin, J. W. Sharpe, Esq., under the firm name of Sharpe & Sharpe. This partnership lasted ten years. In 1899, Irvin C. Elder, Esq., entered the partnership, the firm name being changed to Sharpe, Sharpe & Elder. In 1901, the partnership was dissolved, Joshua W. Sharpe retiring, and a new partnership was formed under the firm name of Sharpe & Elder. At the Bar Mr. Sharpe showed many of the qualities of his distinguished father, and he enjoyed a large and lucrative practice. In politics he was nominally a Democrat, but personally and intellectually he was a man of independent views, and manifested no political ambition. Like his father he was a close student, and he devoted all his time to his profession.

1 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 826.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 70.

3 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 71.

4 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 687.

5 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 66.

6 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 67.

7 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 657, 688, 826.

8 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 70, 154.

9 Wm. H. Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Lane S. Hart, Publisher, 1884), Pg 67.

10 Wm. H. Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Lane S. Hart, Publisher, 1884), Pg 68.