WARREN, Monroe

WARREN, SOLISS

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Date: 12/9/2001 at 10:28:42

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF De Witt TWP.
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) pgs 736-751

MONROE WARREN, blacksmith, of the firm of Warren & Son, De Witt; was born in Ohio in 1823; his father, Bennett Warren, came to Clinton Co. in 1841, and engaged in farming; he died in 1857. Mr. Monroe Warren came to De Witt in the fall of 1844; he is the pioneer blacksmith of De Witt; has followed that business here for thirty-five years. He married, in 1845, Betsey A. Soliss; has three sons- John N., James W. and Thomas M.; the latter is engaged with his father in business.