Biographical Sketch of George S. Warner, Laclede County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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George S. Warner, of Union Township, Laclede county, was born in
Shelby, Orleans County, N. Y., December 11, 1853, and is the son of
Joseph B. and Lodema (Rusk) Warner, natives of Connecticut, now living
in Orleans county, N. Y., at the advanced ages of eighty-nine and
eighty-eight years, respectively.  The parents removed to Orleans 
county after their marriage, where they have since lived and devoted
their attention to the pursuit of agriculture.  Both have been members
of the Methodist Epsicopal church for many years.  They have had eight
children, four sons and four daughters, viz.: William J., a farmer of
Laclede county, Mo.; Mary D., widow of William F. Parker, of Kalamazoo,
Mich.; Octavo, at home; Sarah, wife of Ogden Bailey, of Orleans county,
N. Y.; James, a farmer of Orleans county; George S.; Francis, a farmer
near Cleveland, Ohio; Antoinette, wife of Ira Howland, a farmer near 
Centerville, N. Y.  When in his twentieth year George S. Warner was
employed by the United States Express Company as a messenger between
Davenport and Keokuk; he was afterward in the employ of the American
Express Company from Burlington to Council Bluffs, and later worked for
the Union Pacific Express Company from Cheyenne to Ogden.  In 1878 he 
located in Laclede county, Mo., on a farm, which he had bought two 
years before, and which he has since successfully conducted.  He now
owns 236 acres of land, and has one of the finest farms in the county.
March 4, 1884, Mr. Warner married Martha O'Neal, who was born in 
Virginia in 1864, and is a daughter of Thomas A. O'Neal.  One child has
blessed this union, whose name is Frances Lodema.  Mr. and Mrs. Warner
are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Mr. Warner is also a 
member of the Masonic fraternity, and in politics his sympathies are 
with the Democratic party.  He is one of the enterprising young men of
Laclede county, and is deservedly popular.

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