Guthrie County IA Archives Biographies.....Warrington, William 1819 - 1905
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Author: Elbert Wright Weeks (1932)

[photo] FIRST FRAME HOUSE IN GUTHRIE CENTER Built by William Warrington

WILLIAM WARRINGTON.

   William (Billy) Warrington, the blacksmith, came into the county to shoe the
stage line horses. "Billy," the useful man, the hard-working man, the necessary
man, whose anvil rang early and late. His nails, horseshoes and bolts were all
made by his own hands. He cheerfully served the poor and rich alike, was always
at his post with the implement of his work in his hand. It could be said of him
as one of David's mighty men whose "hand clave to his sword" his "hand clave to
the handle of his hammer."

   Because of his faithfulness in small things, he became influential and useful
in the larger things, bigger than he knew. So "Billy," humble and modest, should
be placed with the primary quintet that did so much in the beginning to start
and give impetus to Guthrie Center.

   William Warrington, born in England, April 15, 1819, died at Guthrie Center,
Iowa, July 31, 1905.


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A RECORD
History
Biography
Memory

Pioneer Times and Peoples

GUTHRIE CENTER I0WA

By ELBERT WRIGHT WEEKS
1932


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