Shannon W. Warwick Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft@cowtown.net

Commemorative Biographical Record of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa, and
Lafayette Counties, Wisconsin
J. H. Beers, 1901, Pages 751-2

SHANNON W. WARWICK is one of the leading farmers of Wyalusing township, and
a worthy representative of an honored pioneer family of Grant county.

William C. Warwick, his father, was born near Hamilton, Butler Co., Ohio,
June 17, 1816, and on reaching manhood was there married, in 1843, to Miss
Nancy Longfellow, who was also born near Hamilton, Nov. 15, 1822, a daughter
of Jacob G. and Mary S. Longfellow, and a cousin of the illustrious poet.
Henry W. Longfellow. In 1846 William C. Warwick, with his wife and two small
children, Walter D. and Shannon W., left Ohio with the intention of making
his home farther West. Traveling in those early days was slow and tedious.
Their course after reaching the Mississippi river was up that stream by
steamboat to Galena, and, with the team brought with them, they then drove
across the country to Lancaster, Grant Co., Wis., which place at that time
was a small village, with but few inhabitants. Mr. Warwick located on Blakes
Prairie, where he opened up a farm, being one of the first to settle there.
Later he sold that place to a Mr. Weed, and bought another farm, near
Bloomington, finally removing to that village, where he died in August,
1885. He had learned the miller's trade in Ohio, and when the mill, was
erected at Bloomington he was induced to take charge of the same, being the
first to operate it. He possessed a thorough knowledge of the milling
business, and it was a fortunate thing for the community in those early days
that so able a miller was to be found among tile pioneers. Mr. Warwick was
an industrious and capable citizen, and left an enviable record for honesty
and uprightness of character as an inheritance to his children. He was
especially well known for his kindness of heart and liberality, and seldom
or never said an unkind word of any one. His worthy wife survived him, and
passed away March 19, 1888. She was of a kind and affectionate nature, ever
ready to help those in need, and was a devoted wife and mother, and a worthy
partner of her honored husband. They were the parents of ten children, seven
of whom are living at the present writing (1900), but only two are residents
of Grant county: Shannon W, our subject; and Mrs. Minnie R. Fox, of
Bloomington, Wisconsin.

Shannon W. Warwick was born in Ohio Sept. 11, 1846, and was only a few weeks
old when brought by his parents to Wisconsin. He was reared in Bloomington,
and educated in tile public schools of that place, and early became familiar
with the work of the farm, also gaining some knowledge of the milling
business by assisting his father in the mill. His brother Walter D.
thoroughly learned the miller's trade with the father; he died a number of
years ago.

On Nov. 1, 1877, Shannon W. Warwick married Maggie L. Mahood, who was born
in Lancaster. Wis., May 3, 1858, a daughter of Charles and Margaret (Parker)
Mahood, pioneers of Grant county. The Parkers located here about 1845. Mr.
Mahood died in 1866, but his widow still survives, and continues to make her
home in Lancaster. Mr. and Mrs. Warwick have four children, namely:
Charlotte E., wife of George S. Glenn; Mary A.; Kittie F.; and Lou L.  They
have spent their entire married life on the farm in Wyalusing township,
where they now reside, and are numbered among the highly esteemed and valued
citizens of that locality. They have a comfortable home and a well-improved
and valuable farm.