Rev. Henry Kimball Warren Biography


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	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	REV. HENRY KIMBALL WARREN, M. A., LL.D., president of Yankton 
College and known as one of the leading educators of the state, was born 
in Cresco, Howard county, Iowa, on the 31st of May, 1858, being a son of 
Chauncey J. and Mary A. (Kimball) Warren, whose two other children are 
Alice M., who is the wife of Rev. Arthur H. Claflin, of Allegheny, 
Pennsylvania, and Harriet L., who is the wife of William H. Davisson, 
assistant chief engineer of the Rock Island Railroad, with headquarters 
in the city of Chicago. Chauncey J. Warren was born in Watertown, New 
York, on the 1st of August, 1831, and when he was about seven years of 
age his parents removed to northern Indiana, becoming pioneers of that 
section, where his father developed a farm in the midst of the forest 
wilds. Thus the father of the subject was reared under the conditions of 
the pioneer epoch, implying that his educational advantages were 
somewhat limited in scope and that a full quota of arduous labor fell to 
his portion in his youthful days. After his marriage he removed to 
Cresco, Howard county, Iowa, where he engaged in farming. He there 
continued to reside until 1861, when he returned to Middlebury, Elkhart 
county, Indiana, and purchased his father's old homestead farm, to whose 
cultivation he gave his attention until 1865, when he disposed of the 
property and removed to Ionia county, Michigan, purchasing a farm near 
the village of Portland, where he continued in agricultural pursuits 
until 1872 when he took up his residence in the village, where he 
engaged in the operation of saw and planing mills and in the manufacture 
of the products incidental to the same. At the present time he is 
devoting his attention to the manufacture of an improved type of washing 
machines, still retaining his residence in Portland. In politics he is a 
stanch advocate of the principles and policies of the Republican party, 
and he and his wife are both earnest and active members of the 
Congregational church.  

	Henry K. Warren, the immediate subject of this sketch, acquired his 
early education in the public schools, completing a course in the high 
school at Portland. Michigan. In 1876 he was matriculated in Olivet 
College, at Olivet, that state, where he was graduated in the spring of 
1882, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts while three years later 
his alma mater conferred upon him the Master's degree. After his 
graduation Dr. Warren turned his attention to the pedagogic profession. 
in which his work during the intervening years has been attended with 
most gratifying success. He was ordained a clergyman of the 
Congregational church at Neligh, Nebraska, in the year 1893, and the 
degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by Olivet College, in 
1902. The Doctor was principal of the public schools at Mount Pleasant, 
Isabella county, Michigan, during the years 1882-3, and from the latter 
year until 1889 he held the position of superintendent of the public 
schools of Hannibal, Missouri. He was then called to the presidency of 
Gates College, at Neligh, Nebraska, retaining this incumbency until 
1894, and for the ensuing year he was president of Salt Lake College, at 
Salt Lake City, Utah. He resigned this position in 1895 to accept his 
present incumbency as president of Yankton College, while his labors 
here have been such as to add further to his high reputation as an able 
and discriminating educator, the college having been eminently 
prosperous during his administration. In politics the Doctor is a 
Republican, taking a lively interest in the issues of the day, and 
fraternally he is a member of Yankton Lodge, No. 101, Ancient Order of 
United Workmen.  

	On the 25th of December, 1883, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. 
Warren to Miss Lillian Hamilton, of Sturgis, Michigan, and they are the 
parents of three children, Howard H., Ruth K. and Robert H., all of whom 
remain at the parental home, which is a center of gracious and refined 
hospitality.