REV. DAVID A. WARREN
Rev. David A. Warren was born of New England stock and English ancestry on the Warren homestead in the town of Verona, Oneida county, May 3, 1799, and died there in February, 1860. His father,
Jonathan, was one of the first settlers in all that section, and served as a soldier in the war of 1812. There amidst the primeval forests the lad was reared to maturity, obtaining such education as
he could at the district schools and developing a sturdy constitution in laboring on the parental farm. His advantages were limited, yet he acquired through his own native energy a valuable fund of
knowledge and rose in the community to a foremost position. He read law and was admitted to practice, but subsequently became a Presbyterian minister. In expounding the truths of the Bible and the
doctrines of Christianity his talents were brought into full play, and he won a warm place in the hearts of his hearers.
Mr. Warren was a consistent Christian, and by his exemplary life and powers of eloquence turned many a person into paths of uprightness and usefulness. He was charitable, kind and benevolent, just in all his actions, energetic and methodical in all he undertook, regardful of the rights of others, though fearless in expressing his convictions, and zealously encouraged all worthy movements. in the ministry he won both success and respect.
His children who survived were Charles H., Joseph H., sr., James Sayre, and Mrs. Elizabeth Barbour. Joseph H. Warren, sr., was born on the homestead in Verona about 1834, received a public school education, and first engaged in farming. Later he went to New York city and became a business partner with his brother, James Sayre Warren, who for eight years was president of the American Wall Paper Manufacturers' Association. He enlisted in Co. K, 97th N. Y. Vols., in the war of the Rebellion, was promoted first lieutenant, was confined in the hospital at Washington, D. C., and was afterward honorably discharged on account of ill health. He died in 1870. He was married in Paris, France, to Miss Marcella Walsh, of New York city, and they had one son, Joseph H., jr., who was born in New York, August 2, 1854, was educated there and in Paris, France, and on August 21, 1895, married Miss Dorothea Richardson, of Ottawa; daughter of Hugh Richardson, chief judge of the Northwest provinces of the Dominion of Canada.
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