From History of Walworth County Wisconsin by Albert Clayton Beckwith, Vol. II, 
Publ. 1912 - Page 921-923
 
EUGENE ADELBERT WALTERS.  One of Walworth county's widely known and 
progressive business men is Eugene Adelbert WALTERS, whose daily life has been 
such as to inspire the confidence of his fellow men.  He was born in Linn 
township, this county, on April 28, 1848, and he has been content to spend his 
life in his native community.  He is the son of Thomas and Alzina (MAXSON) 
WALTERS, both of whom came here from Allegany county, New York, where they 
grew up and were married, and from there they moved to Walworth county, 
Wisconsin, in 1844.  There Thomas WALTERS entered forty acres of land in the 
southwestern part of Linn township, a mile and a quarter from the line of 
Walworth township.  About twelve years later he moved over into Walworth 
township and bought a farm of sixty-eight acres, a short distance east of the 
village of Walworth.  There he made his home the rest of his life, devoting 
his attention to agricultural pursuits.  He was born in Worcestershire, 
England in 1807.  He was the son of William WALTERS, also a native of 
England.  He came to America in 1839 and spent five years in the state of New 
York, engaged in mechanical work in an implement factory.  He had followed 
gardening in England.  He was married in Allegany county, New York, to Alzina 
MAXSON, the daughter of Alfred and Mary (CLARK) MAXSON, her family having come 
to New York from Rhode Island, and in the former state she was reared, the 
MAXSON home having been in Allegany county many years.
 
The family of Thomas WALTERS  and wife consisted of six children, namely: 
Susan married Dwight GREENE and they live in Chicago; William Herbert lives at 
Covert, Michigan; George Frederick lives in Albion, Dane County, Wisconsin; 
Eugene A., of this review; DeEtte married Warren J. RANDOLPH and lives in the 
village of Walworth; Adeline Adelia died in young womanhood.
 
The mother of these children died in 1859, aged forty-nine years, and their 
father subsequently married Levina DOWSE, of Allegany county, New York, and 
two sons were born to them, Clarence and Charlie.  They both live in the 
village of Walworth.
 
Thomas WALTERS died in 1889, his widow surviving until 1905.  He was a worthy 
member of the Seventh-Day Baptist church.
 
Eugene A. WALTERS, of this sketch, grew up on the home farm near Walworth.  He 
attended the common schools and Milton College. He began his business career 
by farming, which he followed some time.  In 1876 he invented a patent hay 
carrier and spent four or five years in manufacturing and selling it, then 
took up farming again, and also followed threshing, having continued in this 
line for a period of forty years, threshing every year, except one.  In 1882 
he moved into the village of Walworth, where he was in the hay carrier 
business and here he has since resided.  He has a pleasant home and is also 
the owner of eighty acres of land in Minnesota.  His wife owns a valuable farm 
of one hundred and twenty acres in Walworth township.
 
Mr. WALTERS was married in 1871 to Elizabeth Emma SWINNEY, daughter of Ephraim 
and Mary Ann (AYARS) SWINNEY.  She was born at Shiloh, Cumberland county, New 
Jersey, and in 1852 she came with her parents to Walworth county, Wisconsin.  
However, they first located near Henry, Illinois, coming to Walworth six 
months later, and bought a farm one and one-fourth miles west of the village 
and there established the family home.  Mrs. WALTERS had two sisters who died 
in infancy, and a brother, Edwin, who lived at Walworth until his death in 
1891.  She has one brother living, Joseph, of Yoncalla, Oregon.  Mr. SWINNEY 
was township chairman several years.  His death occurred on May 12, 1882, and 
his widow died in 1901.
 
Five children were born to Eugene A. WALTERS and wife, of whom, Wilbur died 
when eighteen months old; Harold Eugene, who married Stella MAXSON, was a 
promoter of the local telephone company, continuing the telephone business 
until he was killed by an electric light wire in September 1909.  He left two 
children, Eleanore and Harold.
 
Mr. and Mrs. WALTERS also have three children living, Wilfred, who lives in 
California, and Mabel and Maude, who live with their parents.  The subject and 
wife are faithful members of the Seventh-Day Baptist church, of which he has 
been clerk for the past twenty-two years.
 
Submitted by Carol