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survey of "New Connecticut," later Ohio.
It was this Moses Warren who provided
its name for Euclid Avenue, Cleveland,
and for whom the city of Warren, Ohio,
was named.
Moses W. Manwaring was educated in
the public schools at East Lyme and New
London. He learned the carpenter's trade
in East Lyme, and came to Bridgeport in
1869 to engage with the late Andrew
Morehouse in the building business. Their
firm built many of the houses on the East
Side, in the section which was developed
by P. T. Barnum and General Noble.
Later Moses Manwaring entered the em-
ploy of the Union Metallic Cartridge
Company, and had charge of erecting
many of its present buildings. In 1891
he bought out the Curtis Brothers' plumb-
ing and heating business, and erected the
brick block on East Main Street now
owned by the Bridgeport Arion Singing
Society. In 191 1 he was chief organizer
of the American Bank and Trust Com-
pany, of which he was the first president.
He retired from business in 1919, selling
out to Horace J. Wellington.
He held many political offices. In the
mayoralty of P. T. Barnum he was a
Councilman, and was later for several
terms Alderman from the old Fifth Ward.
In 1906-1910 he was chairman of the Congress
Street Bridge Commission, and had
the distinction of returning to the city
unspent a considerable part of the appropriation.
He represented the Twenty-
third District in the Connecticut Senate,
1909-1910. For six years, 1913-1919, he
was treasurer of the city. Besides polit-
ical offices he was president of both local
and State organizations of the Master
Plumbers' Association and the Business
Men's Association. He was an organizer
and for some years treasurer of the
Bridgeport Protective Association.
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He married, December 11, 1872, Em-
meline Louise Comstock, daughter of the
Hon. John Jay Comstock of East Lyme.
They had two daughters, one of whom,
May Louise, died in infancy, and the
other, Elizabeth Wheeler Manwaring, is a
member of the faculty of Wellesley
College.
WARNER, Donald Judson,
Secretary of State.
One of the oldest of English surnames,
the name of Warner is found in the
Domesday Book, and there have been two
suppositions to the derivation of this
name, one being that it was derived from
Warriner, the keeper of a warren, and
other antiquarians claim the following
derivation : "It appears that near the
boundary of Wales, in the southwest sec-
tion of England, there dwelt a race of
people who were engaged in agricultural
pursuits. To protect themselves from
the surrounding savage tribes, these people
were forced to appoint from among
themselves the most athletic and discreet
men, who might go out into the surround-
ing country and warn people of the approach
of the enemy. Hence the name
Warner, and this explanation of the origin
and significance of the name corresponds
with the derivation from the old high
German Warjan, meaning to defend, as
given by Zeuss. It seems likely that the
name is derived from the ancient German
and like all historic names was spelled in
a variety of ways. In the seventh century
we find the old form, Warin, Guarin,
Warne, and Wern, and at a later date,
Warrerner, Warner and Werner, the lat-
ter also being common English forms of
the name. The arms of the Warner fam-
ily are: