Born in Toledo, Iowa, September 20, 1867, the son of William C. and Mary Reynolds Walters. He received his early education in the Toledo public schools, was graduated from Cornell College, Mount Vernon, in 1891 and from the University of Michigan law school in 1893. He practiced law in Toledo continuously from that year, with the exception of the years he was special assistant attorney general and judge. Mr. Walters was married June 30, 1898, to Miss Pearl Reedy. Mrs. Walters died in 1911. On May 25, 1917, Mr. Walters married Clara Burkhart Watson. Membership by Mr. Walters was held in the Toledo Masonic and Odd Fellow lodges, Scottish Rite Masonic and Shrine orders and the Methodist church. Many earned and well deserved honors came to him in life. He was appointed judge of the district court in 1936. He was special assistant attorney general in the highway department from 1932 to 1936. He was Tama county representative in the Twenty-ninth General Assembly, had served as county attorney of Tama county, was a member of the Toledo school board for six years, chairman of the Tama county defense council during the World war, and had been active in the promotion of good roads. An important part was taken by Mr. Walters in drawing up the bill which created the State Juvenile Home, and he had a prominent part in the location of this institution in Toledo, an institution which has done much in the conservation of Iowa's dependent and neglected children.