Warner, Amos Griswold – Warnock, William R
Warner, Amos Griswold
educator, author, was born in 1861 in Iowa. He is a professor of applied economics in Leland Stanford Junior university, who, beside reports as superintendent of charities for the District of Columbia, has published American Charities: a Study in Philanthropy and Economics; and Three Phases of Coöperation in the West.
WARNER, ANNA BARTLETT-Amy Lothrop-author, was born in 1820 in New York. She is the author of Wych Hazel; Books of Blessing; and Ellen Montgomery's Bookshelf. Among her separate novels and religious and other works are, Dollars and Cents; My Brother's Keeper; Stories of Vinegar Hill; The Fourth Watch; The Other Shore; Three Little Spades, a Child's Book of Gardening; Gardening by Myself; and Up and Down the House.
Warner, Beverley E
clergyman, author, was born in 1855 in New Jersey.
He is an episcopal clergyman of New Orleans; and the author of English History in Shakespeare's Plays.
Warner, Charles Dudley
journalist, author, was born Sept. 12, 1829, in Plainfield, Mass. He is a popular novelist and essayist of Hartford, editor of The Hartford Courant from 1867, and one of the editors of Harper's Magazine from 1884. He is the author of My Summer in a Garden; Backlog Studies; Saunterings; Being a Boy; Baddeck and That Sort of Thing; Mummies and Moslems; In the Wilderness: Adirondack Essays; Life of Washington Irving; Life of Captain John Smith; In the Levant; My Winter on the Nile; A Roundabout Journey; On Horseback, a Tour in Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, with Notes of Travel in Mexico and California; The Work of Washington Irving; Studies in the South and West; Southern California; A Little Journey in the World; Their Pilgrimage; The Golden House; As We Go; As We Were Saying; The Relation of Life to Literature; and Our Italy.
Warner, Eliza A
author, was born in 18-. She is a writer of Northampton, Mass., among whose works are, Tom Tracy; The Red House; and Our Two Lives.
Warner, Hiram
educator, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 29, 1802, in Hampshire county, a Mass. From 1828 to 1831 he was a representative to the general assembly, and declined a re-election. In 1833 he was elected one of the judges of the superior courts of Georgia, and was re-elected in 1836, holding the office until 1840. In 1845 he was appointed one of the judges of the state supreme court, serving for eight years, and then resigned. In 1855 he was elected a representative in the thirtyfourth congress. He died in 1881 in Atlanta, Ga.
Warner, John De Witt
educator, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 30, 1851, in Schuyler county, N. Y. For four years he filled the chairs of Latin, German, and elocution in the Ithaca and Albany academies. He was elected from New York city to the fifty-second and fiftythird congresses as a democrat, and took an active part on several important committees on tariff, finance and commercial matters. He was one of the founders of the Shakespeare club of New York city; and the author of Sound Sequence in Shakespeare and other papers on Shakespearian subjects. In 1892 he was the tariff reform editor of the New York Weekly World, and is the author of numerous pamphlets and tariff reform articles. During 1895-96 he was chairman of the reform club's sound currency committee, and its president in 1897.
Warner, Levi
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 10, 1831, in Wethersfield, Conn. He was elected from Connecticut to the forty-fourth congress to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected to the fortyfifth congress as a democrat.
Warner, Lucien Calvin
manufacturer, philanthropist, was born Oct. 26, 1841, in Cuyler, N. Y. Warner Bros. employ about 2,000 operatives in their large factory in Bridgeport and enjoy an enormous sale of their productions. He is an interested member of the chamber of commerce of New York. He gave a $100,000 building to his alma mater at Oberlin for a conservatory of music; was active and liberal in the erection of a $150,000 building for the Harlem branch of the Young Men's Christian association; and in partnership with his brother, has built an admirable club house in Bridgeport, Conn., at a cost of $100,000, for the use of the girls in the employment of the firm.
Warner, Millard Fillmore
educator, college president, clergyman, was born Oct. 15, 1848, in Tuscarawas, Ohio.
In 1887 he became a professor in the Baldwin university of Berea, Ohio; and in 1894 was made president of that institution.
Warner, N. M
journalist, author, poet, was born Aug. 20, 1855, in Richland, Iowa. He is a publisher of Lyons, Neb.; and the author of Warner's History of Dakota County; and a volume of poems.
Warner, Olin Levi
sculptor, was born April 9, 1844, in Suffield, Conn. His works include a colossal medallion of Edwin Forrest, which was exhibited at Philadelphia in 1876; Dancing Nymph; a fountain for Portland, Ore., completed in 1888; Diana; portrait-statues of Gov. William A. Buckingham, which was placed in the capitol in Hartford in 1883, and William Lloyd Garrison in Boston.
Warner, Richard
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1835 in Tennessee. He served in the confederate army throughout the war of the rebellion. He was a representative in the Tennessee state legislature in 1878; and was elected a representative from Tennessee to the forty-seventh and fortyeighth congresses as a democrat.
Warner, Samuel L
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1829 in Wetherfield, Conn. In 1853 he was appointed executive secretary of state; and in 1857 was a member of the Connecticut legislature. In 1861 he was elected mayor of Middletown, and was re-elected until 1865, when he was elected a representative from Connecticut to the thirtyninth congress. WARNER, SUSAN-Elizabeth Wetherell-author, was born July 11, 1819, in New York city. She was a once famous novelist of Highland Falls, N. Y., whose Wide, Wide World, appearing in 1849, attained an extraordinary popularity in America and England. Among her other works are, Queechy; The Old Helmet; Stephen, M. D.; The Hills of the Shatemuc; Melbourne House; Daisy; Diana; and The Law and the Testimony, a theological work. She died March 17, 1885, in Highland Falls, N. Y. re-
Warner, Vespasian
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born April 23, 1842, in Mt. Pleasant (now Farmer City), Ill. In 1861 he enlisted as a private soldier in company E, twentieth Illinois volunteer infantry. In 1862 he was commissioned a second lieutenant; mained in the service until 1866, when he was mustered out, then being a captain and brevet major. He was colonel and judge advocate-general of Illinois; and elected a republican presidential elector in 1888. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican. was
Warner, Willard
soldier, United States senator, was born Sept. 4, 1826, in Granville, Ohio. He entered the volunteer army in 1861 as a major; and in 1864 was appointed colonel of the one hundred and eightieth Ohio volunteers. He was promoted to the rank of major-general by brevet, for gallant and meritorious services. He served two years in the Ohio senate; and was chosen a senator in congress from Alabama for the term ending in 1871.
Warner, William
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born in 1840 in Wisconsin. He served three and a half years in the union army, in the thirty-third and forty-fourth Wisconsin infantry, during the civil war. In 1867 he was elected city attorney of Kansas city; and in 1868 was elected circuit attorney; and was mayor of Kansas City in 1871. He was a presidential elector in 1872; was appointed United States attorney for the western district of Missouri in 1882; and in 1885 received the votes of the republican members of the Missouri legislature for United States senator. He was elected a representative from Missouri to the forty-ninth congress; and was re-elected to the fiftieth congress as a republican.
Warner, William Richard
chemist, was born Dec. 25, 1836, in Caroline county, Md. He is a pioneer in the manufacture of sugar-coated pills and many other pharmaceutical preparations now used all over the world.
Warner, Zebedee
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 28, 1833, in Pendleton county, Va. He is a minister of the sect of united brethren; and the author of Christian Baptism; Rise and Progress of the United Brethren Church; Life of Jacob Buchtel; and The Roman Catholic Not a True Christian Church.
Warnock, William R
soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 29, 1838, in Urbana, Ohio. For four years he was prosecuting attorney of his county; in 1876-77 was a state senator in the Ohio legislature; and for ten years was judge of court of common pleas.