“Edgar Morris Warner, son of Earl, attended the common schools of the neighborhood in which his youth was passed, and the Bartlett high school, at New London, Conn. He taught school for several years and also sold books for a time, and for some two years clerked in a store at New London. He had a taste for the law and began its study in the office of Judge Hiram Willey, of New London, with whom he remained a couple of years, when for a time he again taught school to aid in the furtherance of his legal studies. Subsequently he entered the office of Hon. George Pratt, a leading lawyer of Norwich, Conn., and with him continued his law studies until June, 1871. He then entered Harvard Law School, from which institution he was graduated in June, 1872, after which he was in Mr. George Pratt’s law office in Norwich. He was admitted to the Bar in New London county in September of that year and began the practice of law at Norwich, remaining there for three years, then removing to Central Village, Plainfield, Conn. In 1885, ten years later, he opened an office in Putnam, his present place of residence, removing thither in 1887. During the decade between 1875 and 1885…Mr. Warner passed one year, 1881-82, at Littleton, N. H., but the climate not agreeing with him he returned to Connecticut.

“Mr. Warner was clerk of the Connecticut General Assembly in 1877-78-79, and clerk of the Senate in 1880. He represented the town of Putnam in the Legislature of 1895, and although serving his first term as a legislator, was a prominent candidate for speaker. However, he withdrew in favor of Samuel Fessenden….

“On Aug. 3, 1887, Judge Warner was married to Jane Elizabeth Carpenter, eldest daughter of Judge John A. Carpenter and Marcia (Chandler),…”

--Commemorative Biographical Record of Tolland and Windham Counties Connecticut Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and of Many of the Early Settled Families, Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1903, pp. 40-41.