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U. S. SENATOR FRANCIS E. WARREN 

 OF WYOMING. 



Francis Emroy Warren was born in Hinsdale, 

 Mass., June 20, 1844. His father was Joseph S. War- 

 ren, a member of the family of Warren early settlers 

 of Massachusetts, among whom was General Joseph 

 Warren, who died at Bunker Hill. His mother was 

 Cynthia E. Abbott, whose family came over from En- 

 gland with the early 

 settlers of Massachu- 

 setts. 



The father of 

 Francis E. Warren 

 was a farmer and 

 trader. While lib- 

 eral in many re- 

 spects, he believed 

 that a common 

 school education, 

 such as he himself 

 possessed, was suffi- 

 cient ; and he encour- 

 aged his children to 

 master the details of 

 farm life in prefer- 

 ence to obtaining ed- 

 ucation designed to 

 fit them for the pro- 

 fessions. C o n s e - 

 quently young War- 

 ren's schooling from 

 the time he was eight 

 years old until he 

 was fifteen was con- 

 fined to a few weeks 

 in the middle of each 

 winter, the remain- 

 der of his time being 

 employed in doing 

 chores and such oth- 

 er work as a farmer's 

 boy has to do about 

 a farm. His educa- 

 tion, as far as school 

 life goes, was com- 

 pleted with about a 

 year's attendance at 

 the Hinsdale Acad- 

 emy, after which, at 

 the age of sixteen, 

 he was placed in 

 charge of a dairy farm where a number of workmen 

 were employed. 



At the age of seventeen young Warren enlisted 

 as a private soldier in Company C, 49th Massachusetts 

 Volunteer Infantry. This regiment was placed in 

 camps of instruction and drilled at Pittsfield and Wor- 

 cester, Mass., was on duty in New York City, and from 

 there was sent to New Orleans and assigned to the 

 19th Army Corps. It took part in the siege and cap- 

 ture of Port Hudson, and was in the fights at Plain's 

 Store and *Donaldsonville. When before Port Hud- 

 son the regiment was called upon to furnish a few 

 men from each company to perform the dangerous 

 undertaking of preceding the main force with fascines 

 to fill a ditch forming part of the protective earth 



FRANCIS E. WARREN, U. S. SENATOR, WYOMING. 



works of Port Hudson, so that the artillery and in- 

 fantry might cross in a proposed assault upon the 

 enemy's position. Corporal Warren for he had been 

 promoted to that rank was one of the volunteers for 

 the service. The colonel, and, in fact, every commis- 

 sioned officer in the "forlorn hope," so-called, was killed, 

 and about three-fourths of the men were either killed 

 or wounded. In the assault Corporal Warren waa 

 knocked down, the fascine he carried being struck by 



a cannon ball, and 

 he lay for some 

 hours unconscious 

 upon the battle field. 

 Congress, later, rec- 

 ognized the bravery 

 of those who partici- 

 pated in this affair, 

 awarding to the sur- 

 vivors medals of 

 honor. 



After the close 

 of the Civil War 

 Corporal Warren re- 

 turned to Massachu- 

 setts, where he re- 

 mained until 1868 

 in charge of a large 

 farming and stock- 

 raising establish- 

 ment. Then he went 

 west and worked for 

 a short time as fore- 

 man in charge of 

 construction work on 

 the line of the Chi- 

 cago, Rock Island & 

 Pacific railway in 

 Iowa; and in June, 

 1868, he reached 

 Cheyenne, where he 

 has since resided. 

 During his residence 

 in Cheyenne he has 

 been engaged contin- 

 uously in mercantile 

 and live stock busi- 

 ness. In 1871 he be- 

 came a member of 

 the mercantile firm 

 of Converse & War- 

 ren. Later he pur- 

 chased his partner's 

 interest, and continued the business as F. E. Warren 

 & Co., this firm several years later being organized 

 into a corporation termed the F. E. Warren Mercantile 

 Company, of which Mr. Warren is now president. 



He was a member of the territorial council, 

 serving as president; was treasurer of the territory of 

 Wyoming six years; and was territorial governor from 

 March, 1885, to December, 1886, and from March. 1899, 

 until the admission of Wyoming to statehood, in 1890, 

 when he was elected first governor of the State. He 

 was elected to the United States Senate November 18, 

 1890, serving until the expiration of that term, March 

 3, 1893, was re-elected January 23, 1895, and again 

 re-elected January 22, 1901. His term of service will 

 expire March 3, 1907. 



