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- J. H. WARREN, M.D., born in Hogansburg, Franklin Co., N.Y.,
- Aug. 23, 1825; son of Lemuel and Betsey (RICHARDSON) WARREN.
His grandfather served in the Revolutionary War, and his father,
a descendant of the New England WARRENs, was a soldier in the
war of 1812. John attended the first school taught in Janesville.
At the age of 20 he studied medicine with D. NICHOLS of Janesville,
and afterward with Dr. Dyer, of Chicago, while pursing his studies
at the Rush Medical College, where he graduated in 1849. He then
began the practice of medicine at Lodi, Columbia Co., till 1851,
when he removed to Albany and followed the milling and mercantile
business with much success till 1870. He has won honorable distinction
as a statesman, being elected to the State Senate in 1857, and
was afterward Clerk of the same.
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- In 1862, he was appointed Collector of Internal Revenue by
Lincoln, which office he held seven
- years; he was also appointed by Secretary Stanton as Receiver
of Commutation during the rebellion. He has been Director of
the Sugar Valley Railroad and a stockholder in the same. He is
the largest mail contractor in the United State, having about
one hundred routes, and his business takes him to all the most
remote parts of the country, which has given him unusual opportunities
for becoming acquainted with the nature of the Indians, and he
is strongly in favor of a peace policy toward them. Throughout
his public career, he has gained a reputation for enterprise,
coupled with that more commendable and rarer clement, sterling
integrity, which has served to give him a prominent position
among the representative men of the State. He changed from the
Whig party to the Republican party, in which ranks he still serves.
He was reared a Presbyterian, though not a member of any church,
and believes in the principles of Christianity as inculcated
by his mother. He married Dec. 18, 1854, Miss Louisa M. NICHOLS,
daughter of his old preceptor; they have two sons and five daughters
- Herbert N., Julia, Lissie, Gertrude, Lulu, Benjamin and Fannie.
The eldest son is a graduate of Rush Medical College and is intending
to pursue his studies in Europe.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 727; lithograph p. 541.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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