BIOGRAPHY: Charles WARNER, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 385-6
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CHARLES WARNER, a successful farmer and lumberman of near St. Lawrence, is a son 
of John and Mary (Noel) Warner, and was born in Chest township, Cambria county, 
Pennsylvania, November 25, 1848. John Warner was a native of Germany, being born 
near the boundary-line of that country and France in 1824. Reared in the same 
manner as the majority of the German youths of his day, he was employed in 
agricultural operations until he reached his twenty-first year. He then came to 
Cambria county, and having quite a taste for farming, purchased a two hundred-
acre tract of woodland, near the site of the present village of St. Lawrence. He 
was one of the early settlers in that part of Chest township, and in the course 
of a few years had cleared out a good-sized and desirable farm, on which he died 
in 1886, aged seventy-two years. He was an industrious man and faithful member 
of the Catholic church. John Warner married Mary Noel, a native of Westmoreland 
county, Pennsylvania, and who is seventy-six years old. To their union were born 
seven sons and a daughter; Christopher A., who served three years as a Union 
soldier in the late Civil War, and died September 19, 1886, from the effects of 
a gunshot wound in the right shoulder, received at the battle of 
Chancellorsville; Matilda, wife of John J. Daniel, a farmer of White township; 
William, now engaged in farming, in Chest township; Henry, who is now dead, and 
Jacob and Sylvester, farmers and residents on the home farm.
     Charles Warner was reared on the farm and trained to agricultural pursuits, 
and the routine labors of a farmer's son when the country was new and largely in 
woods. He received only the usual limited education of his neighborhood in the 
early common schools kept open only in the winter season, but he learned the 
invaluable lessons of self-reliance, honesty and economy, which go far toward 
making the successful business man. When he attained his majority he purchased, 
in Chest township, a tract of one hundred acres of choice timberland, on which 
he followed lumbering in winter and clearing and farming in summer for a number 
of years. He removed, in 1872, to his farm, which is now one of the finest farms 
in the township, being well improved and in a good state of cultivation. For 
several years Mr. Warner has purchased small tracts of timber, which he has 
converted into lumber during the winter seasons. He is well situated, with a 
desirable home and surrounded with all the needed comforts of life.
     On July 2, 1872, Mr. Warner wedded Barbara Miller, a resident of Elder 
township. Their union has been blessed with ten children, five sons and five 
daughters: Agnes, Adaline, Frank, Laura, Emma, Urban, Albert, Jeannette, Levi, 
and Clinton.
     Charles Warner has given his time chiefly to farming and lumbering, in 
which he has been quite successful for over a quarter of a century. In religious 
faith and church membership he is a Catholic, belonging to St. Lawrence church, 
of that denomination. Mr. Warner has never sought political preferment, but has 
decided opinions on the great questions of the day, and is a democrat. Never 
asking for an office, yet when elected at different times, as supervisor, 
auditor and school-director, he accepted and served acceptably and creditably.