Sedgwick County KS Archives Biographies.....Copner, Warner F. 1850 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Warner F. Copner, retired farmer, of Salem township, Sedgwick county, Kansas,
was born in Warren county, Ohio, on February 27, 1850. His parents were John and
Nancy J. (Andrews) Copner. The father of Warner F. was born in Warren county,
Ohio, on February 3, 1824. The mother was born in Indiana on May 16, 1824. They
were married at Waynesville, Ohio, in 1858. John Copner moved from Ohio to
Illinois and remained there until 1871, when he moved to Sedgwick county,
Kansas, and preempted 160 acres of land in Section 19, Salem township. There
were six children in his family, three of whom died in infancy. The three living
are Warner F., of Salem township; Henry C., of Oklahoma, and Cassius L., of
Salem township. The mother of this family died April 17, 1907, and the father is
living in Salem township. Warner F. Copner remained at home until he was
twenty-one. In the spring of 1871 he moved to Sedgwick county, and May 9 of the
same year preempted 160 acres of land in Section 21, Salem township. In 1874
Warner traded his quarter-section for the one his father had preempted, and
remained on his claim and worked at various things. The second winter he worked
in a sawmill and for a time operated the ferry at Derby. In 1874 he went to work
for Albert Minnick, in the latter's store at Derby, and remained with Mr.
Minnick for three years and seven months. On February 18, 1880, Mr. Copner was
married to Miss Hulda Parker, who was born in Butler county, Ohio, on March 26,
1858. Her parents were William and Eliza (Myers) Parker. The father was born in
Erie county, New York, on April 4, 1833, and her mother was born in Butler
county, Ohio, on January 15, 1835. Their marriage took place February 14, 1856.
Mr. Parker came to Sedgwick county, Kansas, in 1877. Mr. Copner has devoted his
life to farm work. He is now practically retired and living on his home place.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from 

History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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