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Warden, Robert Bruce

lawyer, author, was born Jan. 18, 1824, in Bardstown, Ky. He is a lawyer formerly of Cincinnati, but since 1873 of Washington. He is the author of A Familiar Forensic View of Man and Law; A Voter's Version of the Life and Character of Stephen Douglas; and Private Life of Salmon Chase.

WARDER, GEORGE WOODWARD, lawyer, author, poet, was born May 20, 1848, in Richmond, Mo. He is the author of an historical novel, but is best known as a poet, having issued three volumes of verse which have attracted considerable attention, and established for the authora national reputation; in 1873 appeared Poetic Writings or College Poems; in 1874 Eden Dell, or Love's Wanderings; and the third volume, a collection of his finest poems, entitled the Utopian Dreams and Lotus Leaves, was issued from London press in 1885. Col. Warder organized the stock exchange of Kansas City, Mo., of which city he has been one of the foremost in its improvements, and was elected its mayor in 1886. He is president of the mining exchange, a director in the Exposition association, the Warder Grand opera house, the Newsboys' home, and is connected with various enterprises and charitable institutions.