California Biographies 

Source:
History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California
by: C M Gidney - Santa Barbara. Benjamin Brooks - San Luis Obispo. 
Edwin M Sheridan - Ventura
Volumes II - Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, ILL., 1917

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JOHN WARNER. Ventura County has proved the door of opportunity to many enterprising and 
hard working men, and one of them, who has long since realized the fruits of real success, is 
Mr. John Warner of Nordhoff.
He came to the Ojai Valley of Ventura County in 1888. He had little capital, and he had to 
commend himself to the favor of the community principally by his ability to perform well and 
faithfully any work committed to his charge. The first six weeks he worked on the county roads, 
and a similar period he was in the employ of E. S. Thacher on a ranch. He then became actively 
associated with his brother, David Warner, and the two together have developed a large 
amount of property in this locality. Their first purchase was thirty acres near Nordhoff. Later 
they bought sixteen acres and planted it to prunes and almonds, but subsequently changed the 
crop to apricots. In 1915 John Warner sold his interests in this place to his brother. In 1897 the 
two brothers bought 160 acres at the east end of the Ojai 'Valley, and in 1904 they purchased 
another tract of 160 acres in Santa Barbara County. This latter tract is used as a stock ranch 
and is now owned by John Warner.
John Warner was born in Buckinghamshire, England, April 13, 1867, a son of David and Ann 
Warner, and attended the public schools of England up to the age of fourteen. For several years 
after leaving school he worked on farms, and at the age of seventeen he came to America and 
put in three years as a farm laborer in Champaign County, Illinois. It was from there that he 
came west to Ventura County in 1888.
Mr. Warner is a republican and a member of the Episcopal Church. In San Bernardino, 
California, in May, 1896, he married Miss Elizabeth Olver, who was born in Liskeard, Cornwall, 
England, the daughter of William and Jane Olver. Mr. and Mrs. Warner have one child, 
William, now seventeen years of age and attending the Nordhoff High School.