BIOGRAPHIES: Raymond K. & Rufus C. WARNER, Independence, Trempealeau Co., WI

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Warner Brothers, Raymond K. and Rufus C., who are engaged in the implement 
business at Independence, Wis., are sons of Robert and grandsons of William 
and Hester (Wolf) Warner.  Robert was born at Bantry, County Cork, Ireland, 
Oct. 20, 1830, and died at his home in Hale, Wis., Feb. 10, 1908, aged 77 
years, two months and 20 days.  He came to the United States in the spring 
of 1850.  On August 27 of that year he enlisted in the United States Army 
and went with his regiment to California to protect the frontier from 
Indians.  After serving five years in the army, he returned to Massachusetts, 
where he was united in marriage to Margaret Sullivan, and together they came 
in 1857 to Adams County, Wisconsin.  In 1864 he removed with his family to 
Trempealeau County, where his wife died in 1868.  In 1870 he married Mary 
Ann Kershaw,  who now, at the age of 75 years, lives with her daughter, Mrs. 
Albert Wingad, at Strum, Wis.  The two brothers, Raymond K. and Rufus C. 
Warner, were both born in Hale, Wis., Raymond, Jan. 19, 1880, and Rufus, 
Aug. 31, 1882, being the youngest of their father's ten children.  Together 
they bought the old home farm in 1905, having managed it for some seven 
years previously, and farmed there until the fall of 1913.  They still own 
80 acres of the original homestead of Grandmother Warner.  In December, 
1913, they bought the implement business of Tubbs Brothers in Independence 
and have since carried it on successfully.  They are agents for the new 
spreader, called the "Independence Special," which has been designed by 
the Litchfield Manufacturing Company, of Waterloo, Iowa, to meet the 
conditions existing in this territory, and a number of which have already 
been sold in Trempealeau County.  They are stockholders of the State Bank 
of Independence, and also dealers in live stock with Tubbs Brothers, under 
the style of Tubbs & Warner.  As practical farmers themselves they are well 
qualified to succeed in their present business.

-Transcribed from the "History of Trempealeau County Wisconsin, 1917",
page 699