E. A. Warner Biography


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E. A. WARNER, editor and proprietor of the "Northwest Blade," of 
Eureka, South Dakota, is one of the ablest young journalists of that 
section of the state. He was born in Prescott, Pierce county, 
Wisconsin, September 2, 1872, and is the youngest in a family of five 
children. His parents, C. F. and Anna (Stirratt) Warner, were natives 
of Vermont and Ohio, respectively, and early settlers in Wisconsin, 
where their marriage was celebrated about 1855. Our subject's maternal 
grandfather was. James Stirratt, a Scotchman by birth and a farmer by 
occupation. The father, C. F. Warner, learned the carpenter's trade in 
Vermont during his youth, and after his removal to Wisconsin in 1850 
followed that vocation there in connection with farming. 

Our subject was reared in much the usual manner of farmer boys, 
receiving a district school education, and in 1886, he accompanied his 
parents on their removal to Leola, McPherson county, South Dakota, 
where the father continued his agricultural labors. In 1888 the son 
commenced learning the printer's trade in a newspaper office at that 
place and during the following five years worked as a journeyman 
printer in Leola and Bowdle, South Dakota, and in Seattle and Tacoma, 
Washington. It was in 1893 that he purchased the "Northwest Blade" then 
published at Leola. It is a consolidation of two papers, both of which 
were started in 1883 and were the first journals issued in McPherson 
county. The "Blade " was first edited by James G. Wells, who 
consolidated it with ''The Northwest," changing the name to "The 
Northwest Blade," and later he sold out to Boucher, Herreid & Kribs. 
Soon after coming into possession of the paper, in 1893, Mr. Warner 
removed the plant to Eureka, where he has since carried it on with good 
success, receiving a liberal support from the reading public. Through 
his paper and by his ballot he supports the men and measures of the 
Republican party, and he has efficiently served as school clerk in 
Eureka for two years. Socially he is a Scottish Rite Mason and a member 
of the Knights of Pythias and United Workmen orders. 

In 1897, Mr. Warner was united in marriage with Miss Elizabetha F. 
Doyle, a native of Iowa and a daughter of John Doyle, an old settler of 
Edmunds county, South Dakota, who is now a resident of Aberdeen, South 
Dakota. One child graces this union: Irving Francis.