William Warren
History of Montana,by Joaquin Miller, 1894
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William Warren, who is ranked with the well-to-do 
farmers in the Prickly Pear Valley, near Helena, has 
been identified with this locality for two decades.Mr. 
Warren is a native of England. He was born May 12, 1844 
and when a lad of sixteen years came to America to make 
his own way in the world. His first work in this country 
was in a coal mine in Rhode Island. From there he went to
the Lake Superior mines where he worked about six years. 
In 1867 he landed in Colorado, and in that state mined 
three years, first contracting and later having the 
position of foreman on several rich leads. While there,
November 19, 1869 he married Lucinda Hardesty, a native 
of Boone County Kentucky, born July 22, 1834. She had gone
to Colorado n the spring of 1863 with her mother and 
brother and in the fall of the falling year, with her 
mother,niece and nephew she returned to Kentucky. In 
Kentucky, August 10, 1865, her mother died and they 
buried her at BigBone Church which was on the corner 
of her father's farm. Their farm had previously been 
occupied by Grandfather Patrick Wallace, an Irish 
gentleman who was one of the pioneers of Boone County,
 Kentucky. Jacob Hardesty, Mrs. Warren's father spent 
his whole life on that farm and died there in 1862 in 
the seventy-first year of his age. In 1867 Mrs. Warren 
again made the journey to Colorado and two years later 
was married there.It was in 1871 that Mr. and Mrs. 
Warren came to Montana and to their present home near 
the city of Helena. Here they have developed a farm. 
Mr. Warren built the commodious residence they occupy, 
and the trees, whose friendly branches furnish ample 
shade were planted by them soon after their arrival 
here. Recently they sold 140 acres of their land at 
$120 an acre, this land having cost them $4 an acre 
in 1871. They reserved the building and the restof 
the farm, the land they have now being devoted to 
small fruits.Mr. and Mrs. Warren have four children, 
two sons and two daughters. Their daughter Fannie 
Lu is the wife of William Shean and the other children, 
Charles Edward, John Wallace and Rosa Belle are at home.

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