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BIOGRAPHIES
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
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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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