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Edgar Allen Warner
Linn County
Born in Livingston County, N. Y., October 5, 1829, and started out for himself when he was fourteen years old. He served a thorough apprenticeship at the millwright business and has followed it more or less all his life. He remained in his native county until the spring of 1854, and then his adventurous mind led him to desire something beyond what the limits of his native county could afford. He accordingly set his face westward, traveled through the States of Indiana and Illinois, crossed the Father of Waters, and came to a halt in the Hawkeye State. His first business was to obtain employment, in which he succeeded, and he followed his trade of in millwrighting for about one year in Jackson County. Then he went into Wisconsin, roamed over the Territories of Minnesota and what now is Dakota, to his satisfaction, and completed the circle of his travels by returning to his native county in New York State. There was no place like home, and he concluded to remain for a time amid old scenes and associations. . He had accumulated some means, notwithstanding his wanderings, and while tarrying in Livingston County, erected two gristmills, after which he again went to Iowa, and remained there until the fall of 1857, in Jackson County, when he proceeded to Linn County. When rumors of war began to be heard in the land, and the Rebellion had assumed alarming proportions, Edgar A. Warner, laying aside his personal interests and the demands of business, determined to go to the rescue of the Union. Leaders must be had and he was selected as one well calculated to fill the post of an officer. He accordingly organized Company II, which was attached to the 14th Iowa Infantry, and Mr. Warner was commissioned as Captain of the company. After he was mustered out of the service, Mr. Warner returned home and engaged in contracting and building. The marriage of Mr. Warner and Miss Laura A. Bennett was celebrated in November, 1862, at Waubeek, Iowa. Mrs. Warner is a daughter of William and Joanna (Wiggins) Bennett natives of New Hampshire. Mr. Warner was elected to the Iowa Legislature in the fall of 1843, and served one term. He has been a member of the. County board of Supervisors for two terms, and has held other minor offices. He is a member of the Royal Arch Chapter, also a member of Marvin Mills Post No. 212, G. A. R. As a citizen he has performed his part well, and as a soldier, most nobly. He is Republican in politics, endorsing the principles of that party with all the conscientiousness and energy which has characterized his conviction upon all other questions of the day.
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