Biographical Sketch of Levi E. WARNER (1893); Chester County, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by John Morris . *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Source: "Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsylvania, comprising a historical sketch of the county," by Samuel T. Wiley and edited by Winfield Scott Garner, Gresham Publishing Company, Philadelphia, PA, 1893, pp. 380-1. "LEVI E. WARNER, deceased, was one of the intelligent, energetic, progressive, and successful business men of the generation now passing away. He possessed business ability of a high order, was a son of Isaac and Jane (Latch) Warner, and is a native of Lower Marion township, Montgomery county, this State. He was born some time in October, 1820, and was reared principally in Montgomery county, where he attended the common schools for a time, but completed his education at the State Normal school in West Chester, this county. In early boyhood he manifested the possession of unusual talent, and, using every advan- tage that came within reach, he soon acquired a good education. After leaving school he learned the trade of shoemaker, and shortly afterward opened a shoe store in Montgomery county. He was energetic and successful, and in a short time had an extensive trade, with eight or ten men in his employ. For a number of years he conducted this business, living at Rose Mont for a period of seven- teen years, and he then removed to Strafford, Chester county, where he pur- chased a fine farm containing seventy-seven acres, and devoted his remaining years principally to agricultural pursuits. In 1880 he opened a serpentine stone quarry on this farm, and operated that enterprise until his death, October 18, 1881 (afterwards carried on by the family until 1889), when just closing his sixty-first year. In political faith he was an ardent republican, and in church membership a strict Lutheran, being active and influential in the religious circles of his neighborhood. "On April 25, 1858, Mr. Warner was wedded to Emma D. Hansell, a daughter of Norris and Sarah Hansell, of Libertyville, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. This union was blessed by the birth of eight children, five sons and three daughters: Norris, born February 21, 1859, and now engaged in sinking arte- sian wells; Lewis, born March 26, 1861, married Clara Stanley, and is a con- tractor and builder, residing at Strafford, this county; Levi E., Jr., born July 3, 1863, married Ella J. Horton, and resides in Devon, this county, where he is engaged as carpenter and builder; Mary Jane, died in childhood; Gardner L., born November 1, 1867, now managing the home farm; Anna H., born February 22, 1870, married Joseph H. Childes, Jr., a prosperous farmer of Wayne, Delaware county; Jacob, born November 8, 1872, and is now living at home and learning the carpenter trade; and Emma L., born March 13, 1875, also residing at home with her mother. The mother of these children, Mrs. Emma D. Warner, was born in Libertyville, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, and is a member of the Baptist church. The family ranks among the best in Chester county and is widely known."