Edwin C. Walker

Edwin C. Walker was an American individualist-anarchist and free-thought writer, an associate editor of Lucifer, the Light-Bearer. In September 1886 he and Lillian Harman, the sixteen-year-old daughter of editor Moses Harman, celebrated an "autonomistic marriage" — a free union entered without the authority of church or state, as a protest against the marriage laws. The couple were arrested the next morning and prosecuted under Kansas law in State v. Walker. Walker was sentenced to two and a half months in the county jail and, because neither he nor Harman would pay the court costs, was not released until Moses Harman paid them the following April.