Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Warner, Fred S.  February 12, 1839 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons

Page 353, 354

FRED S. WARNER
	We are constrained to allot a space in these permanent chronicles of 
our county for an epitome of the life of one of our prominent residents, whose 
name appears above, and who has been a leader in the business which he has 
followed since coming here, as well as being one of the largest real-estate 
owners in the county.
	His native place is Pittsford, Vermont, being born there February 12, 
1839, and remaining there for the first thirteen years of his life.  At that 
time he went with his parents, Nathan S. and Sarah Warner, who were natives of 
the same place, to Sutherland Falls, now Proctor, that state.  His 
grandparents were Samuel and Mercy (Smith) Warner, she being a native of 
Massachusetts, but he was born in Vermont, at Pittsford, to which place his 
ancestors were early pioneers.  Our subject grew to manhood in his native 
state and there received his education, with a supplemen- tary course at the 
Fort Edwards Institute, of Fort Edward, New York.  In 1860, in company with J. 
E . Smith, a cousin, he came to California via the Isthmus, and remained in 
that state and Nevada for seven years, engaged in mining.  Returning to 
Sutherland Falls, he remained there until 1885, engaged in a general store and 
in the marble quarries.  Then he sold out and came to Umatilla county, where 
he bought a squatter’s right, later pre-empting and homesteading the land
which forms the nucleus of his fine estate today.  Here he embarked, in 
partnership with his brother, A. P., in the sheep business, where they have 
continuously operated since, with such fine success that now their real estate 
holdings amount to two thousand acres and their sheep are numbered about three 
thousand head.  They commenced by handling sheep on shares. 
	Our subject was married, in Proctor, Vermont, on November 23, 1870, to 
Miss Sarah M. Humphrey, a native of that state.  They have the following 
children: Winifred R., now Mrs. A. B. Janes, of Pilot Rock; Kenneth G., a wool 
grower of Pendleton.  This son is also a veteran of the Philippine war, having 
enlisted in Company H of the Second Oregon Volunteers, and occupying the 
position of customs inspector.  Mrs. Warner died at Proctor, on May 17, 1874.  
Mr. Warner contracted a second marriage, at Brandon, Vermont, on November 9, 
1875, with Miss Eva L. Briggs, a native of that state.  To them have been born 
six children: Etta S., now Mrs. George Hatch, of Pilot Rock; Alison E., now 
Mrs. Harley Janes, of Pendleton; Mary E., a school teacher; Harold F., all of 
whom were born in Proctor, Vermont; also these born at Pilot Rock, Elinor I. 
and Raymond J.  Mrs. Warner is a member of the Episcopal church of Pendleton; 
her parents, James and Sarah Briggs, were natives of Brandon, Vermont.  Mr. 
Warner owns a fine residence on Garfield street in the city of Pendleton, and 
also some other city property.  It is a point of reminiscent interest that his 
great-great-grandmother, Miss Beulah Batt, was captured by the Indians near 
the old fort at Pittsford, Vermont, and carried away.  While the savages were 
crossing Otter creek she darted in the high grass and brush of the swamp and 
succeeded in secreting herself so securely that the Indians wearied themselves 
in hunting for her and gave up the search when she returned to her home. 


Additional Comments:
An Illustrated History of Umatilla County by Colonel William Parsons and of 
Morrow County by W. S. Shiach with a brief outline of the early history of the 
State of Oregon.  W. H. Lever, Publisher  1902.


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