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War′ren, O., county-seat of Trumbull County, on Mahoning River and the Pennsylvania, Erie and Baltimore and Ohio railroads, 52 miles southeast of Cleveland. Settled at the beginning of the 19th century, it was incorporated a generation later. It is situated in a good farming-region, through which electric tramways connect its chief towns. Its buildings include a public library, an hospital, opera-house, churches, schools and municipal offices. Its industries embrace a rolling-mill, tube-works, electrical apparatus and supply establishments, besides manufactories of automobiles, bath-tubs, stoves, ranges, tank-cars, shovels and fire-extinguishers. Population 11,081.
Warren, Pa., a borough, county-seat of Warren County, on the Alleghany River and on the Dunkirk, Alleghany Valley, Pennsylvania and Western New York railroads, 60 miles southeast of Erie. Besides a theater and a public library it has the state asylum for the insane. Settled about 1795, it was incorporated in 1832. Its industries embrace iron and steel works, machinery-works, oil-refineries, lumber-mills, furniture-factories and establishments for the manufacture of glue, barrels, wood-alcohol and pianos. Population 11,080.
Warren, Gouverneur Kemble, American soldier, was born at Cold Spring, N. Y., on Jan. 8, 1830. Studying for the army at West Point, he graduated in 1850, after which he acted as chief topographical engineer in the Sioux expedition of 1855. Returning to West Point, he for two years was assistant-professor of mathematics, but in 1861 accepted the lieutenant-colonelcy of the Fifth New York Volunteers, and took part in the battle of Big Bethel and was promoted to be brigadier-general for gallantry at Gaines' Mill. He subsequently distinguished himself at Malvern Hill, Manassas and Fredericksburg. In 1863 he acted as chief of topographical engineers under Hooker, and later as chief engineer in the Army of the Potomac. He also was at Gettysburg, and for his distinguished services there and in the field gained a brevet-colonelcy in the regular army and a step in rank, that of major-general of volunteers. Still later he took part in the battles of the Wilderness, and served professionally at the siege of Petersburg and in the Richmond campaign. In the battle of Five Forks he had some disagreement with General Sheridan, who relieved him of his command, though the result of a court of inquiry into the matter between them relieved Warren of personal blame. Reinstated, he was given command at Petersburg and was later in charge of the Department of the Mississippi. In 1865 he resigned his commission in the volunteers and was brevetted major-general in the regular army, and subsequently rendered approved service on surveys and in the improvement of harbors. He died at Newport, R. I., on Aug. 8, 1882.
Warren, Joseph, an American patriot, was born at Roxbury, Mass., June 11, 1741. He graduated at Harvard College, and began the practice of medicine at Boston. He twice delivered an address on anniversaries of the Boston Massacre. In 1774 he was president of the Massachusetts Congress, and was by it made a major-general. At the battle of Bunker Hill he appeared unattended, and, declining to take the command which was offered him, fought as a volunteer. As he was leaving the field, being one of the last to retire, his name was called by a British officer, who, commanding his men to stop firing, urged Warren to surrender. But as he turned his head at the sound of a voice, he was instantly killed by a ball striking him in the forehead, June 17, 1775. His statue at Bunker Hill was unveiled on June 17, 1857. See Life by Frothingham and that by Everett in Sparks' American Biography.
Warren, Samuel, an English novelist, was born in Wales in 1807, and died at London, July 29, 1877. He was a lawyer and edited an edition of Blackstone's Commentaries; but is best known by his novels, which appeared in Blackwood's Magazine, entitled Ten Thousand a Year and Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician. His other works are Now and Then and The City and the Bee.
Wark, Hon. David. Born near Londonderry, Ireland, in 1804. Came to New Brunswick, Canada, in 1825. Became a merchant. Elected to the New Brunswick Legislature in 1843. Appointed to the Legislative Council in 1851, Sat in the Council until the Union 1867. Appointed to the Senate at Federation. He wrote political pamphlets and was an active senator until within a few years of his decease. Called the Nestor of the Canadian Parliament. Died 1906.
War′saw, the former capital of Poland and the third city of the Russian Empire, is on the Vistula River, about 395 miles east of Berlin. It stands partly on a plain and partly on rising ground, and is connected with one of its beautiful suburbs by two fine bridges. There are about 160 palaces in Warsaw and 180 churches, among them the Cathedral of St. John, which dates from 1250; several theaters, one of them in a garden laid out in the old bed of the Vistula; fine squares and public gardens, with monuments to Sobieski, Copernicus etc. The university, founded in 1816 and closed by the Russians in 1832, was opened again in 1864. It has a library of 350,000 volumes, a fine observatory and 1,114 students. The leading industries of the place are plated silverware, musical instruments, carpets, boots and
