Warner, Samuel bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 938, Waterford Township
Samuel Warner, farmer, was born in Madison Co., O., Nov. 6, 1816, the son of Charles and Chloe (Johnson) W. He was married to Isabel Heslep in 1858. Chloe Belle was born to them June 21, 1860. Mrs. W. died Feb. 22, 1873. Mr. W. and daughter are members of the Presbyterian Church, and Mrs. W. was before her death. His daughter is a graduate of the High School at Lewistown.

Portrait and Biographical Album of Fulton County, Illinois: containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county: together with portraits and biographies of all the presidents of the United States, and governors of the state; Biographical Pub. Co., Chicago, IL; 1890; page 550-551; Transcribed by Margaret Rose Whitehurst
Samuel Warner. The simple record of an honorable life is the best monument that can be reared to any citizen, and we shall therefore not attempt to enlarge upon the history of the gentleman above named, who is one of Waterford Township’s most reputable residents. He was born In Darby Township, Madison County, Ohio, November 6, 1816, in an old log cabin, when there was not a frame house in the township. He was reared on his father’s farm, attended school in the primitive log cabin of the time, paying fro $2 to $3 per term for his tuition. He sat upon a slab bench with pins inserted for legs, did his writing exercise on a slab table which extended around the wall, and often experienced the sensation of having one side of his body well heated by the roaring fire in the fireplace, while the other side was cooled by the breeze that penetrated the crevices in the walls. He was taught reading, writing, and spelling, with the fundamental rules of arithmetic. Those were the days when the teacher boarded round in the homes of the various patrons, and free schools were not yet.
Mr. Warner worked on the farm summers, attending school in the winter as circumstances would permit, and after his father’s death, which occurred when he was sixteen years old, he helped support the family for two years. He then worked out by the month the year round except in sugar making time, when he operated a grove of fifty acres which he owned. In September, 1848, he came to this State, making the trip on the Ohio River from Cincinnati to its mouth, then up the Mississippi and Illinois to Liverpool, this county. He worked as a farm hand about eighteen months after his arrival, then with a brother bought and settled on two hundred acres of land on section 1, Waterford Township. The land was heavily timbered, but they cleared nearly all of it. They also built a sawmill which they operated until all the heavy timber of the vicinity was worked up. After the land was cleared, it was placed under cultivation, and Mr. Warner has continued to raise crops and stock thereon.
During the year 1850, Mr. Warner was united in marriage with Miss Isabel Hezlet, a native of Pennsylvania, with whom he lived happily until her death, February 22, 1873. She was then about fifty-five years old. She was a faithful member of the Presbyterian Church, an efficient, loving companion, and a wise, devoted mother. Mr. Warner has never remarried, but having rented his farm, makes his home with the tenant. He has one daughter, Chloe Belle, who was born June 21, 1860, was graduated from the Lewistown High School, and married James Hull, a prominent physician of Sciota, McDonough County. Mr. Warner has been connected with the Presbyterian Church for a quarter of a century, and is a reliable, faithful member. Politically, he is a Republican, and he has been called upon to advance the interests of his fellow-citizens in sever of the township offices.
Grandfather Warner was born in Germany, and upon coming to America, settled in Massachusetts. There Charles Warner, the father of our subject, was born and reared, removing to Ohio about the year 1800. He made the trip with a team, and was one of the first settlers in the new State. Deer, bear, and wolves were numerous there at the time, and even in the boyhood of our subject they were still to be seen. Mr. Warner took up a tract of military land, partly timber and partly prairie, erected a log cabin, cleared his land, farmed and carried on the dairy business. He kept about forty cows, hauled his cheese and butter to Kentucky and sold it to the planters. He had a farm of two hundred and twenty acres, and carried on agricultural operations that were very extensive for that period. He died of bilious fever at the age of forty years.
The mother of our subject was Chloe Johnson, a native of Connecticut, born between New Haven and Hartford. She was a Presbyterian in religious belief, and a member of that church at the time of her death, which occurred in Ohio in her ninety-fourth year. To her and her husband five children were born, all of whom grew to maturity, although our subject is the only one now living. His brothers and sisters were Eliza, David, Isaac, and Mrs. Emeline Dart.