Warren, Henry P.

WARREN

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 1/26/2009 at 16:23:20

Henry P. Warren

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.60, Council Bluffs)
Henry P. Warren, Deputy Clerk of Courts, Council Bluffs, was born in Palmyra, N. Y., August 21, 1820, and the following year his parents removed to Springfield, Ill., and in 1828 to Fulton County, Ill. He received his education at Oquawka, Ill., and in Fulton County, Ill. When he reached the age of twenty years, he, in connection with his uncle, began trading with the Indians, on the Des Moines River, Iowa. At Peoria, Ill., in 1846, he married Hannah L. Page, and the following year remoevd to Fairfield, Iowa, where he engaged in business. In 1854-55, he held the office of County Treasurer of Jefferson County, Iowa, and in 185 removed to Council Bluffs, where he kept books for the old State Bank, afterward the First National Bank. He was Deputy County Treasurer of this county from 1870 to 1873, and in the latter year was appointed Deputy Clerk of Courts, which office he has since held. His ancestors were New England Puritans. His son, F. H. Warren, held the position of Clerk of Courts for six years.