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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HUGH WARRING. One of the families that has been identified continuously with Ventura County since 
the decade of the ‘60s is the Warrings, represented by Mr. Hugh Warring of Piru, one of the leading 
horticulturists, farmers and business men in that vicinity.
 
His father, Benjamin F. Warring, was a pioneer in this section of California.  Benjamin was born in Tioga 
County, New York, December 12, 1829, and was reared and educated there.  He had just about 
reached his majority when the great gold discoveries were made on the Pacific Coast, and in 1850 he 
came to California by way of the Isthmus of Panama.  His first experience was in running a restaurant in 
San Francisco for three months.  From there he removed to Santa Clara County, and was employed in 
the great redwood timber district until 1860.  He bought a farm near San Jose, operated it until 1869, 
and then sold out and drove overland into Ventura County.  Soon after his arrival he settled in the 
Santa Clara Valley in that section now known as Buckhorn.  A government claim of 160 acres gave him 
the land which he devoted to farming for so many years, and it was his home until his death on July 1, 
1903.  He was a very prosperous citizen, stood high in the community and was much respected for his 
many excellent qualities of character.  As to politics he was a republican.  He was a member of the San 
Jose Cavalry Company in the early days of its formation.  In 1853 Benjamin Warring was married at San 
Jose to Missouri D. Easley.  Six children were born to them and the two now living are Walter S. of 
Ventura County and Hugh.
 
Mr. Hugh Warring was born in San Jose, California, September 23, 1857, and was about twelve years of 
age when the family removed to Ventura County.  His education in the public schools was concluded a 
year later and from that time forward he made a hand on his father farm.  Arriving at the age of 
twenty-one he bought fifty acres adjoining the old homestead, and was successfully identified with its 
cultivation and management until 1913, when he sold that fifty acres.  In 1912 he had bought thirty 
acres near Piru with twenty acres in lemons and the rest in pasture land.   On the death of his father he 
inherited 120 acres, and of that property he has sixty acres in oranges and walnuts and the rest in 
pasture.  His ownership extends to fourteen acres of bean land in Ventura, but he rents this.  Thus his 
possessions indicate that he one of the most prosperous citizens of Ventura County and he is a man 
who wisely uses his prosperity.  He is a stockholder in the Fillmore State Bank, is a member of the 
Fillmore Union High School Board, is a director in the Ventura Co-operative Association, and is a 
republican and a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Masonic Order.
 
On September 4, 1881, Mr. Warring married Alice Conaway, a native of Stockton, California.  They had 
a happy married life of fifteen years until her death on June 18, 1896.  Four children were born to 
them: Edwin Cecil who is thirty-four years of age and is now postmaster at Piru; Alfred A., aged 
twenty-nine, also engaged in ranching near Piru; and Lester J., who is twenty-five years of age and is 
connected with the Union Oil Company.  On January 15, 1903, at Piru, Mr. Warring married Orie J. 
Eaton.  Mrs. Warring is a native of Kansas and a daughter of H. B. Comfort, a retired rancher and now 
living in Sawtelle.  Two children have been born to this marriage, Benjamin F., aged seven and Chester 
Arnold, two years old.