Francis Amasa Walker was an American economist, statistician, journalist, educator, academic administrator, and an officer in the Union Army.
Francis Amasa Walker
Walker as a young adult
Walker as an assistant assistant adjutant general in the II Army Corps
Walker as a professor of Political Economy at the Sheffield Scientific School
Sheffield Scientific School
Sheffield Scientific School was founded in 1847 as a school of Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut, for instruction in science and engineering. Originally named the Yale Scientific School, it was renamed in 1861 in honor of Joseph E. Sheffield, a railroad executive. The school was incorporated in 1871. The Sheffield Scientific School helped establish the model for the transition of U.S. higher education from a classical model to one which incorporated both the sciences and the liberal arts. Following World War I, however, its curriculum gradually became completely integrated with Yale College. "The Sheff" ceased to function as a separate entity in 1956.
Chemistry Class in 1898
Second President's House, home to the Department of Philosophy and the Arts, 1847–1860
Joseph Earl Sheffield, the school's namesake
Plaque commemorating Sheffield Hall