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William Thompson Walters (May 23, 1820 – November 22, 1894) was an American businessman and art collector, whose collection formed the basis of the Walters Art Museum. ==Biography== He was born in Liverpool, Pennsylvania in 1820. He was educated as a civil engineer, but became interested in the coal and iron industry. While directing a smelting establishment in Pennsylvania, Walters produced the first iron manufactured from mineral coal in the United States. He moved to Baltimore in 1841, where he worked as a grain merchant and in 1847 became established as a liquor wholesaler.〔 He spent much of the American Civil War in Europe, where he studied and purchased art. After the end of the war, he returned to the United States, where he invested in banking and railroads, founding the Atlantic Coast Line.〔 He was appointed as the United States commissioner at the Paris expositions of 1867 and 1878, and also to that at Vienna in 1873.〔 In the late 1880s he took in business in the horse trade, importing Percheron hoses with his partner Samuel Hopkins. File:William_Thompson_Walters_Gravestone_Three_Quarter.jpg|Gravestone three quarter view File:William Thompson Walters Gravestone Detail.jpg|Gravestone detail 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Thompson Walters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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