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Edwin Robert Walker
1862–1932
Best remembered for writing The Lenni Lenape, or Delaware Indians, he brought a judge’s eye for detail to New Jersey history. His work connects law, local history, and an early 20th-century effort to record the past of the Lenape people.
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The Lenni Lenape, or Delaware Indians
by Edwin Robert Walker
About the author
Born in 1862 and died in 1932, Edwin Robert Walker was a New Jersey lawyer, judge, and historical writer. Sources on his published work identify him as the author of The Lenni Lenape, first published in 1917, and bibliographic records also connect him with other civic and historical writing, including work related to Trenton.
Walker served prominently in New Jersey’s Court of Chancery. Reliable public-reference sources describe him as a vice-chancellor from 1907 to 1912 and chancellor from 1912 to 1927. That legal background helps explain the careful, documentary tone of his historical writing.
For readers today, he is most closely associated with The Lenni Lenape, or Delaware Indians, based on an address delivered before the New Jersey Historical Society in Newark on October 31, 1917. The book reflects an early 20th-century attempt to gather together historical material on the Lenape and their place in New Jersey’s past.