San Bernardino County CA Archives Biographies.....Warmer, Benjamin Franklin November 2, 1880 - 
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Author: The Lewis Publishing Company

California and Californians, Pages 29-30

	BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WARMER, judge of the Superior Court of San 
Bernardino County, has been a resident of California since 1911, and prior to 
his assumption of his present judicial office he had gained marked success in 
the practice of law in San Bernardino County, he having here established his 
home in the City of Ontario, where he still resides, though his administrative 
headquarters, as a matter of course, are maintained in the county courthouse, 
in the City of San Bernardino.
	Judge Warmer was born in the Province of Ontario, Canada, November 2, 
1880, and is a son of the late Benjamin and Ann (Parnell) Warmer, the former 
of whom was born in England and the latter in Canada, her mother having been a 
representative of one of the sterling German families early established in the 
old Keystone State and more commonly designated as Pennsylvania Dutch.  
Benjamin Warmer’s mother died in England and as a boy he accompanied his 
father from England to Canada, where he was reared to manhood.  His marriage 
occurred in Canada, where he continued his residence until he removed, in the 
decade of the ‘80s, to Dakota Territory and became a pioneer farmer in what is 
now the State of North Dakota, where both he and his wife lived until they 
came to California in the year 1909.
	Judge Benjamin F. Warmer is indebted to the North Dakota public 
schools for his early education, and after completing his course in the high 
school at Drayton he finally entered the law department of the University of 
North Dakota, at Grand Forks, he having been graduated as a member of the 
class of 1907, his reception of the degree of Bachelor of Laws having been 
forthwith followed by his admission to the North Dakota bar.  Within the 
period intervening between his leaving high school and being graduated in the 
law school the future jurist added to his required financial resources by 
finding employment at intervals, the fund thus acquired having enabled him to 
continue his education.
	After his admission to the bar Judge Warmer was engaged in the 
practice of his profession in North Dakota until impaired health made it 
virtually essential for him to seek at least temporary change of climate, and 
it was with such means of recuperation in view that he came to California in 
February, 1911, with no thought of establishing permanent residence.  His 
health improvement was so marked and so impressed did he become with the 
attractions and advantages of Southern California that he finally decided to 
remain at Ontario, where he had established his home.  At Ontario he resumed 
the practice of his profession, to which he gave his close attention until 
March, 1922, when Governor Stevens appointed him judge of the Superior Court 
of San Bernardino County, to fill an unexpired term.  In the fall of that year 
he was regularly elected, for the short term, and in 1924 he was reelected for 
the full term of six years and again in 1930 was reelected for another term.  
He was made an admirable record in handling the important affairs assigned to 
this court, which has jurisdiction in probate and civil cases and the law and 
motion calendar.  Prior to taking this judicial office he had served as deputy 
district attorney, 1915-18; was city attorney of Ontario three years, 1919-21; 
and in 1912-13 had been a member of the Ontario Board of Education.  He had 
given intervals of service as a member of the Republican county committee of 
San Bernardino County since 1912, and is influential in the local councils of 
the “Grand Old Party.”
	Judge Warmer has his basic Masonic affiliations with Ontario Lodge No. 
301, A.F. and A.M., both he and his wife being members of the local chapter, 
No. 179, of the Order of the Eastern Star, of which Mrs. Warmer is a past 
matron, and he has membership also in Ontario Lodge No. 1419, B.P.O.E., 
besides being identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the 
Fraternal Brotherhood.
	In California, June 22, 1911, Judge Warmer married Mary Isabel 
Edwards, who was born and reared in the State of North Dakota and who is a 
daughter of Thomas and Catherine (Campbell) Edwards, the father Welsh-Irish 
and the mother of Scotch descent and both now deceased.  Judge and Mrs. Warmer 
have two children:  Benjamin Franklin, Jr., is a student in the Chaffey Union 
High School of Ontario, as is also Miriam Isabel, in 1930.  Mrs. Warmer is a 
gracious and popular figure in social, cultural and club circles in San 
Bernardino County, and is a past president of the county organization of the 
Federated Women’s Clubs of California.


Additional Comments:
California and Californians, Volume IV, Edited by Rockwell D. Hunt, A.M., 
Ph.D., Assisted By An Advisory Board, The Spanish Period, By Nellie Van de 
Grift Sanchez, The American Period, By Rockwell D. Hunt, California Biography, 
By a Special Staff of Writers, Issued in Four Volumes, The Lewis Publishing 
Company, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, 1932.

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