Stanislaus
County
Biographies
ADMIRAL ERWIN WARREN
The business interests which
contribute to the prosperity and activity of Oakdale include the industry which
is managed by Mr. Warren, who is successfully engaged in carriage-marking and
blacksmithing in that town, and his diligence and enterprise are characteristics
that are well worthy of emulation. A
native of New York, he was born in Medina, Orleans County, in the Empire state,
June 15, 1842, and is descended from one of the old New England families, his
parents being William T. and Celesta (Foote) Warren, the latter a native of
Orleans County. In the year 1853 the
father came to California going directly to Sonoma City, Sonoma County, where
he engaged in wagon and carriage making.
He removed to Hangtown and there he was
honored with the position of mayor of the city, now the town of
Placerville. While in Virginia City,
Nevada, he served as alderman, and at Watsonville he was a justice of the
peace. Thus it will be seen that he was
not only an active factor in industrial circles but also had marked influence
upon the public life in the execution of the duties of his various official
positions. He was industrious and
intelligent and a thoroughly reliable citizen and was a faithful member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He
departed this life in 1896, at the age of seventy-six years. The mother of our subject had died in the
east, and the father afterward contracted a second marriage, by which he had
one child, who was born ere his emigration to California. On coming to the Pacific coast he brought
with him his second wife, his son Admiral and a daughter of the second
marriage.
Mr. Warren, of this review, was in
his eleventh year when he came to California.
He pursued his education in the schools of Placerville and Sacramento
and was afterward sent east to complete his course at Three Rivers,
Michigan. He also took a course in a
commercial college and was thus well equipped for the duties and
responsibilities of business life. He
opened a carriage and blacksmith shop in Virginia City, Nevada, where he
remained for thirteen years, making considerable money; but through investment
he lost all of this. In 1883 he went to
the Territory of Washington and was taken ill there and returned to California,
arriving in June of that year. The four
years following, however, he carried on business at the Twenty-six Mile House,
after which he opened his present shop in Oakdale, and here he has carried on
business with excellent success for the past twelve years, numbering among his
patrons many of the best residents of the town and surrounding country. In addition to his shop he has a good home
and has acquired considerable other town property.
In 1886 was celebrated the marriage
of Mr. Warren and Mrs. Mary Markley, of Chinese Camp, Tuolumne County, a daughter
of George Carter. By her former marriage
she has one child, named Anna Belle Markley.
Mr. Warren has a son named William Admiral. After seven years of happy married life the
mother was called to her final rest. In
1895 Mr. Warren was again married, his second union being with Miss Etta
Dickson. Their pleasant home in Oakdale
is the center of a cultured social circle and their friends are many. Mr. Warren has always been ready to aid every
enterprise intended to benefit and improve his town. As the architect of his own fortunes he has builded wisely and well, for all he has has
been made through his own efforts and he is today counted one of the
substantial citizens of the community in which he resides.
Transcribed by
Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
“A Volume of Memoirs and Genealogy of Representative Citizens of Northern
California”, Pages 665-666. Chicago Standard Genealogical Publishing Co. 1901.
© 2011
Gerald Iaquinta.