Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Warner, George, Jr
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Falls Township


GEORGE WARNER, JR. lumber manufacturer, member of the firm 
of Gillingham, Garrison & Co. (limited), 943 Richmond 
street, Philadelphia, is a descendant of a very old family 
in Bucks county, and is collaterally related to many 
well-known residents of the county.  On both sides he traces 
his ancestry to Benjamin Taylor, a native of this county, 
whose father was one of the English Friends who came here in 
the latter half of the 17th century.  Of the date of 
Benjamin Taylor's birth there is no record, but he was 
married to Hannah Towne in 1719.  A daughter of this couple, 
also named Hannah, was married to William Field in 1755, and 
died in 1815, and her daughter, Letitia, became the wife of 
William Warner on 1st mo., 4th, 1803.  This William Warner 
was the grandfather of George Warner, and was the son of 
Abraham Warner, who, in the 12th mo., 1768, was married to 
Ann Yardley.  The exact date when the Warner family first 
came to the country is unknown, but it was probably about 
the same time as the Taylors.  The Yardley family genealogy 
is preserved in the Harley MSS. in the British Museum back 
to 1402.  A member of the family came to this country about 
the same time as the others named above and settled in 
Yardleyville, which was named after him.  The Abraham Warner 
mentioned owned the farm at Penn's Manor, Falls township, on 
which his great-grandson, George, subject of this sketch, 
was born.  William Warner was born 10th mo., 26th, 1769, and 
died 9th mo., 28th, 1828.  He and his wife, Letitia, had six 
children.  The oldest, Abraham (father of George), was born 
10th mo., 9th, 1803, and died 9th mo., 3rd, 1860.  He also 
lived all his life on the place of his birth and was a 
successful farmer, accumulating a good property.  He was a 
prominent member of the Pennsburg meeting, and was much 
respected in the community.  He was married on the 12th mo., 
24th, 1840, to Sarah Ann Taylor, a lineal descendant of the 
Benjamin Taylor before mentioned.  She was born 21st of 1st 
mo., 1819, and after Mr. Warner's decease became the wife of 
John Wildman, of Langhorne, where she is now living.  
Abraham Warner had four children:  Hannah Taylor, wife of 
Phineas Briggs, and living in Upper Makefield township; 
Letitia, wife of Stephen B. Twining, of Yardley; William 
Yardley, married to Jennie T. Robbins, and living on the old 
historic Penn Manor farm, which has recently been purchased 
by his brother, George, who is the youngest of the children 
and was born June 6, 1852.  Bendemere (beautiful water), the 
home of the Warners, was built in 1692, of bricks brought 
from England, and had belonged to them for four generations. 
 It was originally owned by the Browns, and was the 
birthplace of Jacob Brown, who was so patriotic that, 
notwithstanding his Quaker principles, he entered the 
Continental army and rose to the rank of general.  He 
afterward served in the war of 1812, and strange to say, was 
never disowned by his meeting.  The father of George Warner 
died when the latter was eight years old.  After attending 
school until he was 15 years of age, he entered Taylor and 
Jackson's academy at Wilmington, Del., from which 
institution he was graduated in 1869.  He then went to 
Baltimore and engaged in the lumber business, and in 1872 
accepted the position of assistant superintendent with 
Gillingham & Garrison, the largest manufacturers of and 
dealers in lumber in Philadelphia.  He was rapidly advanced, 
and at the expiration of four years was admitted as a member 
of the firm.  The business has steadily increased, and in 
1882 the firm purchased 3,000 acres of pine timber land in 
Elk county, this state.  They have there two steam mills, 
with a capacity of 25,000 feet each per day; two large booms 
for storing logs, a steam shingle mill, a store, forty 
houses, shops, and everything necessary for the manufacture 
of lumber.  Coal of excellent quality and in great quantity 
underlies much of their land.  The New York, Lake Erie & 
Western railroad has been extended through these lands, 
giving rail facilities to market as well as water.  Mr. 
Warner was married October 22, 1879, to Lydia Yardley, 
daughter of Algernon S. and Susan J. Cadwallader, of 
Yardley, this county.  They have one son, Seymour Yardley, 
born October 31, 1880.  An interesting fact came to their 
knowledge after their marriage.  Mrs. Warner also traces her 
descent from the Yardley family, and her 
great-great-grandfather Yardley also bore the same relation 
to her husband.  She was born in Yardley 12th mo., 11th, 
1853.  Mr. Warner is a firm believer in the principles of 
the republican party, and like all his ancestors a member of 
the Society of Friends, and a sincere admirer of the 
principles and character of the founder.  He is now the 
owner of William Penn's home and farm, and believes that 
Penn's "holy experiment" and his noble idea of man's 
capacity for self-government were the seed from which sprang 
this mighty nation.