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ii, 1840. He died in 1838. During his
entire life he was engaged in the occupa-
tion of farming on a large scale.
His son, John Warner, was born March
3, 1786, and died October 25, 1858. He
married, September 18, 1809, Rebecca
Coleman, who was born in 1785, and died
January 17, 1835.
His son, Horace Warner, was born
September 12, 1813, and died August 17,
1883. He married, in 1840, Abigail H.
Hills, whose birth occurred in the year
1813, and who died November 5, 1878.
Her father was a deacon in the Congregational
church at Buckingham, Hartford
county. Horace Warner grew up on
the home farm, attending the public
schools in his youth, and when not thus
engaged he was occupied with such work
as usually falls to the lot of the farmer
boy. In this way he laid the foundation
of his future success as a grower of pro-
duce. In an early day he made a spe-
cialty of onions and became a producer
on a large scale. While he was liberal in
his religious views, he believed in the
application of the golden rule, and his
relations with his fellow-men were of
such a character as to win their confi-
dence and esteem. He was broad in his
views, and while pronounced and sincere
in his own convictions, he respected the
opinions of others. In politics he was a
Democrat, but not a politician in any
sense of the word. Of his seven children,
five grew to maturity, as follows :
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Ellen
Maria, whose birth occurred June 15,
1842, and who married Josiah G. Adams;
John Chester, born July 10, 1845, died
August 9, 1917; Rosalie Rebecca, born
June 14, 1849, an d died in 1871 ; Frederick
Walton, mentioned below; William H.,
whose birth occurred October 1, 1853.
Frederick Walton Warner was born
April 4, 1851, at Wethersfield, Hartford
county, Connecticut. He received his
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education in the public schools of Weth-
ersfield, the Hartford South District
School, and at the Wilbraham Academy
at Wilbraham, Massachusetts. He then
entered the employ of A. Hollander &
Company, which was engaged in the
retail clothing business, remaining with
this concern from September 1, 1868,
until 1882. He then formed a partner-
ship with his brother-in-law, William L.
Willard, under the firm name of F. W.
Warner & Company, and established a
retail clothing business on his own
account, and has remained at the same
place until the present time. In the year
1894 the business was incorporated under
the name of the Warner & Willard Com-
pany, and still later, upon Mr. Willard's
retirement and the taking over of part of
his interest by William Bailey, Jr., the
name of the corporation was changed to
the Warner & Bailey Company. From
the day on which it has been established
the business has prospered greatly, due
principally to the thorough knowledge of
its details and the progressive, yet careful,
business methods which are employed
by Mr. Warner. It is now one of the
leading clothing stores of Hartford. Mr.
Warner is noted for his exceptional judgment
in financial matters, is public-
spirited and takes an active interest in
community affairs. He is a worker in
the Democratic party, the principles and
policies of which he is a strong supporter
of, but he is in no sense of the word a
politician nor does he seek public office
or political preferment. He is a member
of the School Board in Wethersfield,
where he makes his home at the present
time, and is a member of the town's Fire
District Committee and of the Hubbard
Escort, a political organization. He
was also affiliated with the Putnam Phalanx
for many years. He is a very prom-
inent Free Mason, and is a member of