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BRAINARD HENRY WARNER

Mr. Warner has done much to develop Kensington, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, where he has a delightful country home. He has been twice married and has nine children living.

Mr. Warner is one of the charter members of the Second National and Central Banks; and has been at various times a director in the Central National, the Metropolitan National, the Columbia National, and the National Savings Bank, now the National Savings and Trust Company. He was one of the founders of the Columbia Fire Insurance Company, and organized the syndicate which erected the Atlantic building, and constructed the Marlborough, Montgomery, Kensington and Leamington apartment houses, and more than a thousand dwellings in different sections of the city.

Mr. Warner was one of the founders of the Board of Trade and its second president. He was also a trustee of the public schools and president of the School Board. Was one of the builders of the Eckington and of the Anacostia Railways.

He is a member of many boards of directors of different institutions, among them being the American university, and Howard university.