Johnson-Linn County KS Archives Biographies.....Warner, E. D. 1834 - 
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Author: Ed Blair (1915)

  E. D. Warner, a veteran of the Civil war and Kansas pioneer, now living
retired at Olathe, is a native of the Empire State. He was born at Schoharie,
Schoharie county, New York, September 16, 1834, a son of Peter and Amanda
(Smith) Warner, natives of New York, the former a descendant of German ancestors
and the latter of New England stock. The family removed to Delaware county in
the thirties, when E. D. was a child. In 1847 they removed to Bradford county,
Pennsylvania, settling near Rome, where they both died. The father was
ninety-two years old, and the mother eighty-four, and their remains are buried
in a private cemetery at Litchfield, Pa. They were the parents of five children,
as follows: Mathias, served in the United States navy during the Civil war. He
was a machinist and spent his life at Susquehanna, Pa.; Betsey, married John
Hubbell, of Waverly, N. Y., and they are both deceased; John spent his life in
Windham township, Bradford county, Pennsylvania. He served in a Pennsylvania
regiment in the Civil war; Oscar served in the Fourth regiment, New York
infantry, in the Civil war, and was a member of the Seventh United States
cavalry and was killed in the Custer massacre at Little Big Horn, Mont., and E.
D., the subject of this sketch. E. D. Warner received a common school
education,, attending school in Delaware county, New York, and Bradford county,
Pennsylvania, and later attended the Nichols Academy, Nichols, N. Y., and was
working at the carpenter's trade when the Civil war broke out. He responded to
the first call for volunteers and on April 1, 1861, enlisted at Montrose, Pa.,
to serve three months and was mustered into the United States service at
Harrisburg, Pa., April 23, 1861. He was assigned to Company K, Sixth
Pennsylvania Reserves, and that organization later became the Thirty-fifth
regiment, Pennsylvania infantry, and was commanded by Col. Wallace Ricketts. The
organization was completed at Camp Curtain, near Harrisburg, June. 22, 1861,
however, they remained there for drill purposes, guard duty, etc., until July
12, 1861, when they were fully equipped and marched to Greencastle, Pa., and
resumed drill at Camp Biddle. On the twenty-second day of July they marched to
Washington, D. C., and were engaged for a time in performing guard duty in the
vicinity of the capitol. Mr. "Warner was discharged on account of disability at
Washington, August 2, 1861. He was very sick and the surgeon did not expect him
to live. He returned to his Pennsylvania home and in the next few months
recovered his health, and on November 1, 1861, enlisted at Elmira, N. Y., in
Company H, Tenth regiment, New York cavalry. He left Elmira, December 24, 1861,
and was sent to Gettysburg, Pa., and was in that vicinity until March, 1862, and
was later transferred to the Twenty-second army corps on the defense of
Washington. His regiment was attached to Kilpatrick's brigade. They were at the
battle of Leesburg, Germantown, Rappahannock Station, Stoneman's raid, Louisa
Court House, Beverly Ford, Brandy Station, Aldie, Middleburg, Upperville,
Gettysburg, Shepherdstown, Sulphur Springs, Auburn, Breatal Station, Mine Run,
Ely's Ford, Morrisonville, Tod's Tavern, Wilderuess, Spottsylvania, Sheridan's
Raid near Richmond; Howe's Shop, Trevillion Station, King and Queen Court House,
Siege of Petersburg, Deep Bottom, Lee's Mills, Ream's Station, Weldon railroad,
Stony Creek. Hatch's Run, Dinwiddie Court House, Sailor's Creek, Farmville and
Appomattox Court House, and a number of minor engagements, skirmishes, raids and
expeditions. During its service Mr. Warner's regiment lost 595 officers and men,
killed, wounded and missing. Mr. Warner was captured at Second Bull Run, August
30, 1862, and paroled on the field and sent to the parole camp at Annapolis,
Md., where he was later exchanged and returned to his regiment. He had many
narrow escapes but was never seriously wounded. A bullet grazed his hand in the
engagement at Louisa Court House. When he was taken prisoner he was on detail
scout duty, and ambushed in the night near Sulphur Springs. The curb chain broke
on his bridle and he was unable to control his horse, which went straight
through between the two lines of battle but Mr. Warner succeeded in making his
escape and took a prisoner back to the Union lines. The Confederate prisoner
whom he captured was a major in a Virginia regiment. After the prisoner was
disarmed a Union sergeant made an attempt to kill him, his bullet just grazing
the prisoner's neck. Mr. Warner protected his prisoner and came within an ace of
killing the sergeant. Mr. Warner reported the affair to General Kilpatrick later
and the General told him he should have killed the sergeant, but the sergeant
was drowned later. Mr. Warner was discharged November 28, 1864, by reason of the
expiration of his term of enlistment. He returned to Bradford county and joined
his wife who had resided there while he was in the army. He then went to
Rochester, Minn., and that fall bought a farm in Steel county and engaged in
farming and remained there about seven years, when he removed to Nevada, Mo.,
and later to Lacygne, Linn county, Kansas, where he remained five years, when he
went to Bates county, Missouri, and operated a coal mine. After operating there
for twelve years he sold his mines and 183 acres of coal land to the railroad
company, and in December, 1889, came to Olathe and conducted a coal and feed
business until 1900 when he sold out, and since that time has not been actively
engaged in any business. He is a stockholder in the Grange store and the Patrons
Bank and owns considerable property in Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Warner was married
February 6, 1856, to Miss Nancy M. Kenyon,. at Owego, N. Y. She is a native of
Bradford county, Pennsylvania, and was born at Kenyon Hill, her parents being
very early settlers in that locality. To Mr. and Mrs. Warner have been born two
children, Elnora, married James Oldfield, of Lacygne, Kan., and she is now
deceased, and Eugene, an employe of the Union Pacific railroad, at Argentine,
Kan. Mr. Warner is a Republican, and for years was active in the councils of his
party. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, Franklin Post No. 68,
and his wife is a member of the Women's Relief Corps. Mr. Warner is a member of
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Mr. and Mrs. Warner are members of the
Presbyterian church. They reside in a cosy home at No. 317 North Cherry Street,
where they are highly respected and have many friends. Mrs. Warner has been a
true helpmate and partner in every particular, and did her part nobly and well
in times of war as well as peace. During the Civil war, when Mr. Warner was in
the army, she was serving her country by maintaining the home. She conducted the
home farm in Bradford county, Pennsylvania, and cared for their two children.
Women of that type are no less patriotic than their husbands, fathers or sons,
who were in the line of action during the days when the clouds of war hung low
over the land.

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HISTORY OF Johnson County Kansas
BY
ED BLAIR

AUTHOR OF
Kansas Zephyrs, Sunflower Sittings and Other Poems and Sketches

IN ONE VOLUME

ILLUSTRATED
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
1915


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