- LEMUEL H. WARREN, one of the founders of the town of Albany,
Green county, is a
- representative of one of the early Colonial families.
- Lovewell WARREN, his grandfather, was a native of Marlboro,
Mass., where his father followed
- his trade, that of blacksmith, and whence he had gone to
participate in the French war near Quebec. Being deprived of
his father by death at the opening of the Revolutionary war,
Lovewell WARREN early left his native home at Marlboro, the home
also of the HOWE family, to whom he was related on his mother's
side, and located near the village of Montpelier, where he cleared
up a farm, and passed the rest of his life, his death occurring
in 1834, when he was nearly seventy years of age. He was twice
married, his first marriage, to Emma HOLDEN, taking place Dec.
23, 1790; her death occurred Jan. 20, 1813. On her mother's side
she was related to the ADAMS family of Leominster, Mass. On Jan.
2, 1814, Mr. WARREN married Olive BOHONON. To the first union
five sons and two daughters were born, and to the second came
one son.
- Lemuel WARREN, son of Lovewell, was born in Washington county,
Vt., and in early manhood
- engaged in teaching school, later becoming a mechanic. He
was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was present at the battle
of Plattsburg. In 1838, ten years before Wisconsin became a State,
he left his New York home and located on a 160-acre farm in Rock
township, Rock county, two and one-half miles form Janesville.
This was his place of residence for three years, when he sold
out and moved to Center township, purchasing 320 acres of land,
on which he lived until his death in 1846, at the age of fifty-five
years. He was well educated for the times, and held many important
positions in the town, being justice of the peace for many years,
doing much clerical work for his neighbors, and marrying many
of the pioneer couples. He was also supervisor, and numbering
among his accomplishments a knowledge of surveying, his services
in that line were much in demand. He married Betsey RICHARDSON,
who was born in New York state, daughter of William RICHARDSON,
a blacksmith, who died at Granville, N.Y., aged eight-five. Three
of the eight children born to Lemuel and Betsey (RICHARDSON)
WARREN are yet living; John H., of Cincinnati, Ohio; Lemuel H.;
and Eugene, of Albany. After the death of the father the mother
removed to Albany, and made her home in a comfortable cottage
built for her by her sons Lemuel and Eugene. She died in 1870.
In early life she was a Presbyterian, but after her marriage
united with the Universalist Church, of which her husband was
a member.
- Lemuel H. WARREN was born in Franklin county, N.Y., Sept.
30, 1830, and was but eight
- years of age when brought by his parents to Wisconsin. He
was reared to manhood on the farm in Center township, Rock county,
and received such education as the district schools of the day
afforded. In 1854 he gave up farming, and joined his brothers
John H. and Eugene in the mercantile and milling business in
Albany. They were always spoken of as the "WARREN"
Boys." For many years they continued together with great
success, but on account of failing health Lemuel was obliged
to sell his interest, which his brothers took, and engage in
other work. He moved to Juda, Wis., and there engaged in the
lumber business for five years, and then, in partnership with
his brothers, took mail contracts for several thousand miles
of routes, some of which they sub-let. This kept Mr. WARREN out
a great deal, and the traveling proved very beneficial. His next
work was on a farm which he bought, near Madison, but in 1883
he returned to Albany to make his permanent home there, where
he has since lived retired, in his charming home. Besides his
other property in Wisconsin, he owns 160 acres of good farm land
in Jackson county, Minn. In his political affiliations he has
always been a stanch Republican, and while in no sense of the
word an office seeker, he has served in several official positions,
being appointed postmaster under President Harrison, and continuing
in office through half of the term of Grover Cleveland. For three
terms he proved a most acceptable president of the village board.
- On March 26, 1854, Mr. WARREN was united in marriage with
Miss Martha STANLEY,
- daughter of Archy and Arlutia (COX) STANLEY, and to this
marriage came four children: Frank S., of Escanaba, Mich., married
Clara TROUSDALE, and has four children, Bessie and Jessie (twins),
Lona and Harriet; Carrie married Charles MORGAN, of Mt. Pleasant,
and has one daughter, Flossie; Fred L., of Albany, married Ella
LEMMEL, and has two children, Tessie and Catharine; and Eva L.
passed away Feb. 18, 1900, aged twenty-nine years. In their religious
faith, the family find hope and comfort in the doctrine of the
Spiritualists.
- Archy STANLEY, father of Mrs. WARREN, was an early resident
of Susquehanna county,
- Penn., and came to Wisconsin in 1850, locating in Sylvester
township, Green county. Two years later he lost his life while
at work in the timber, when he was aged fifty-four years, four
months. He was twice married, and his first wife, Arlutia COX,
died in 1837, the mother of seven children, all now deceased
except Mrs. WARREN. Two of the sons, Edward and James, were soldiers
in the Civil war, the latter dying in a hospital in Memphis,
Tenn. In 1839 Mr. STANLEY married, for his second wife, Miss
Olive GLIDDEN, of Friendsville, Penn., and to their union came
eight children, of whom six are living: Benjamin, of Rossville,
Iowa; Susan, of the Odd Fellows Home, Green Bay, the widow of
J. B. PERRY; Jefferson, of Lyon county, Minn.; Archy of Chamberlain,
S. Dak.; Major, of Juda, Wis.; and Ellen,wife of Thomas SUMMERIL,
of Monroe.
- Matthew STANLEY, grandfather of Mrs. WARREN, was a native
of England, and on emigrating
- to this country located in Orange county, vt., thence to
Friendsville, Penn., where he died at a good old age. He was
a typical gentleman of the old school, always very particular
about his dress, and wore his hair braided in a queue.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin,"
(c)1901 Union Publishing; p. 653.
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- Courtesy of Carol.
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