Joseph Edison Walker
Businessperson, Deceased Person
1879 – 1958
Who was Joseph Edison Walker?
Joseph Edison Walker was a leading African American physician, businessman and religious leader. After graduating from college and medical school, he practiced as a doctor in Mississippi, where he was born and reared. He also became president of a bank and an insurance company serving blacks. In 1920 he moved with his family to Memphis, Tennessee for more opportunities.
With associates he founded the Universal Life Insurance Company in 1923, which became one of the largest black-owned insurance companies in the nation under his leadership through 1952. With his son, in 1946 he founded Tri-State Bank, also of Memphis. He also founded the Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church, a non-denominational church in Memphis.
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- Born
- Mar 31, 1879
Copiah County - Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Alcorn State University
- Meharry Medical College
- Lived in
- Mississippi
- Died
- Jul 28, 1958
Memphis
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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