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Source:
Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio

embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Trumbull and Mahoning
Containing Portraits of all the Presidents of the United States, with a Biography of
each, together with Portraits and Biographies of Joshua R. Giddings, Benjamin F. Wale,
and a large number of the Early Settlers and Representative
Families of to-day.
Published: Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
1893

  JONATHAN WARNER, the popular superintendent of the Russia Rolling Mills, Niles, Ohio, is one of the most progressive young business men of Trumbull county.  He is a native of Ohio, born in Trumbull county, August, 2, 1865.  His paternal grandfather, Jonathan Warner, was born in New York State in 1818, and emigrated in an early day to Ohio, locating at Mineral Ridge; there he became interested in coal-mining, owning and operating the larger mines and controlling the bulk of the product in this section.  With the exhaustion of the mineral resources Mr. Warner's activity diminished; his career had been one of uninterrupted prosperity and he had accumulated a competence for his declining years.  HE is now living in retirement surrounded by the substantial comforts of life.  He married Eliza Field, and to them were born five children:  Emeline, wife of Myron Arms; Edwin J., of Denver, Colorado; Jacob B., the father of our subject; Charles M., and William H.  J. B. Warner was born in the State of New York in 1841, and received a limited education in the pioneer schoosl of Ohio, whither he was brought in infancy.  Arriving at mature years he became his father's partner in operating the coal mines of "the Ridge."  This industry was abandoned by him during the period of the great Civil war of this country; his command did very important service in Virginia, and when hostilities ceased he returned to Ohio to locate in Now Lisbon, where he embarked in the coal trade.  He married Maria Lewis a daughter of John Lewis, a native of Wales, and a pioneer settler in Ohio; there were three children in this family, Mrs. Maria Warner, John and Mrs. Leavitt of Brazil, Indiana.  Mr. and Mrs. Warner are the parents of two children, Jonathan and Josephine.
     At the age of seventeen years Jonathan Warner went to Denver, Colorado, and attended the public schools of that city for a time; he returned to Ohio, and was graduated from Rayen College in 1885, standing second in his class.  He then entered Williams College, Massachusetts, and completed the course in this time-honored institution in 1889.  His literary education finished he returned to Niles and entered upon the duties of assistant superintendent of the Arms Rolling Mills.  He has been very successful, and has won an enviable reputation in manufacturing circles for his sound judgment and mechanical ability.
     Mr. Warner was married Sept. 23, 1891, at New Castle, Pennsylvania, to Miss Mary Brown Ward, a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Brown) Ward; Elizabeth Brown Warner is the child of this marriage.  Mrs. Warneris a thirty-second degree Mason, the degree having been conferred upon him in the Lake Erie Consistory.  In politics he is a Republican.  He and his wife belong to the Presbyterian Church.
Source: Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Trumbull and Mahoning - Publ. Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1893 - Page 409
   

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