- WARNER, A. J.; was born in Erie County, New York, January
13, 1834; was educated at
- Beloit, Wisconsin, and at New York Central College, New York;
was Principal of the Lewiston Academy, and Superintendent of
Public Schools of Mitllin County, Pennsylvania, and Principal
of Mercer Union Schools, Pennsylvania, from 1856 to 1861; in
the latter year entered the Union Army as Captain, and served
throughout the war, rising to the rank of Colonel and Brevet
Brigadier-General; studied law, and was admitted to the bar at
Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1865, but never practiced; was elected
a Representative from Ohio to the Forty-sixth Congress; was also
elected to the Forty-eighth Congress; was re-elected to the Forty-ninth
Congress.
- [Taken from "Biographical Annals of the Civil Government
of the United States" by Charles Lanman; (c)1887 J. M. Morrison,
Publisher, New York; p. 527]
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