Warren, William G, 1905 Bio, Rio Blanco County, Colorado http://files.usgwarchives.net/co/rioblanco/bios/warrenwg.txt --------------------------------------- Donated March 2001 Transcribed by Judy Crook from the book: Progressive Men of Western Colorado Published 1905, A.W. Bowen & Co., Chicago, Ill. --------------------------------------- William G. Warren Beginning a life of labor in the mines of Colorado at the age of fourteen and ever since then actively engaged in productive pursuits of various kinds, William G. Warren, of the White river valley, living on a good ranch of three hundred and twenty acres twelve and a half miles southeast of Meeker, has found no time for idling in his busy life, but has ever been present with pressing duty, and the results of his ready and capable response to its calls are seen in the productive activities flourishing around him and the advanced state of improvement of the country in which he has lived and labored. His life began on April 8, 1862, in Otonogan county, Michigan, where his parents George B. and Elizabeth (Shepherd) Warren, settled some time after their emigration to this country from their native England, the father having been born in Devonshire in that country and the mother at Newcastle-on-Tyne. On arriving in the United States they first located in New Jersey, then some time afterward to Michigan, and finally to Colorado. The father engaged successfully in mining and followed that pursuit to the end of his life. He was also engaged in works of construction of magnitude, being, in addition to other things in this line, overseer of the work on the Hoosac tunnel. In political faith he was an earnest Republican and fraternally belonged to the order of Odd Fellows. The family comprised eight children, five of whom are living, Thomas H., James W., Elizabeth (Mrs. Thomas Parsons), Emma (Mrs. James Cox) and William G. The mother died in July, 1868, and the father in January, 1897. The facilities for education afforded to William were meager, as in his youth he was obliged to go to work in the mines at Georgetown, this state, being employed there from the age of fourteen until 1878. He then moved to Leadville and mined for wages there until 1882. During the next seven years he was following the same pursuit, most of the time on his own account at the Holy Cross, Red Cliff and Iron Mask mines. On selling his property at Gillman in 1889 he settled in the vicinity of Meeker, taking up half of his present ranch on White river and afterward adding the other half. Of this three hundred and twenty acres one hundred and eighty can be cultivated, the water supply being abundant for this purpose, as Mr. Warren owns an individual ditch. He also has a one-half interest in the Warren-Dreyfuss and Warren-Smith ditches. For many years he was a member of the United Workmen. On September 29, 1886, he was united in marriage with Miss Emma W. Terrell, a native of Nebraska reared in Missouri. They have had six children, one, Ralph, being dead, and Jessie E., Daisy C., George William, Clara A. and Edna living. Mr. Warren is one of the prominent and influential men in this county, forceful in every phase of its public life and business enterprise, and has the regard and confidence of all its people. =================================================== Contributed for use by the USGenWeb Archive Project (http://www.usgenweb.org) and by the COGenWeb Archive Project USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access.