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-