Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2013, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the US Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889 [page 514-515] N. S. WARREN, - This solid and reliable farmer has long been promi- nently identified with the interests of Cherokee County, his resi- dence there beginning in 1868. He was born in Canada, October 1, 1834, and is a son of H. F. WARREN, also a native of Canada, and of Scotch ancestry. His mother was NANCY STOUTENBURG, of German descent. When N. S. was three years old his parents removed to Grant County, Wisconsin, where he lived until he was sixteen years old. He was early accustomed to the hardships of a pioneer family's life, and received only the meager advantages afforded by the common schools of that day. At the age of sixteen years he removed to Northern Indiana. In 1859 he was seized with the California fever, and made the trip there, going via the Isthmus of Panama. He remained there four years engaged in the all-absorbing pursuit of mining. He returned to Newton, Indiana, where he resided one year, and then re- moved to Dubuque County, Iowa, where he was employed as a salesman of a road wagon until 1868; he then located in Cherokee County, taking a homestead of 160 acres in Cedar Township. He was one of the first set- tlers there, and continued to live there until 1883, when he sold his farm and bought his present place, which was partly improved by G. W. ALEXANDER. Mr. WARREN'S farm now contains 340 acres of fine soil, and most excellent improvements in the way of buildings. He was mar- ried in 1856, in Indiana, to ELIZABETH BOARD. By this union one son, WILLIAM was born; he now resides in Montana. After the death of his first wife he was married again in Grant County, Wisconsin, in 1865, to Miss JENNIE MORRISON, a native of Essex County, New York, and a daughter of BRADLEY MORRISON, Esq. Nine children have been born of this marriage: ERMINIE, CHARLES, NELLIE, FRAZIER, HATTIE, EDDIE, HARVEY, HENRY and VERE KENNETH. Mr. WARREN is a stanch supporter of the issues of the Democratic party. He has served as county supervisor with much credit to himself and the best interests of his party. He is a member of Speculative Lodge, No. 307, A.F. & A.M.; of Burning Bush Chapter, No. 90, R.A.M. He is a man yet in the prime of life, and is highly esteemed by his neighbors and friends. ===========================================================================