Henry Steele Wardner was the son of Henry and Caroline Paine (Steele) Wardner. He married Lillian Millard Darrah. He was a lawyer educated at Harvard and was admitted to the New York bar in 1892. He served for ten years as assistant United States Attorney for the southern district of New York. After 1901, he was general counsel for the New Jersey Zinc Company. Wardner and his cousin, attorney Maxwell Evarts challenged the constitutionality of the federal corporate tax in Flint v. Stone-Tracy Company.
He bred Morgan horses and became the first president and founding member of the Morgan Horse Club. He was also an active promoter of the Green Mountain National Forest, which was approved by the federal government in 1927 to 1928. Wardner was the author of "The Birthplace of Vermont: A History of Windsor" and "The Old Constitution House and Its Neighbors".
Transcribed below is the March 7, 1935 article from The Vermont Journal concerning his death and life.
"News was received in this village Monday evening of the death in New York city of Henry Steele Wardner. Pneumonia is given as the cause of death. Funeral services will be held at St. Paul's Episcopal church Friday, March 8, at 2 p.m., with interment in Ascutney Cemetery.
Although Mr. Wardner has been a New York city lawyer since 1892, his interest in Vermont, his native state, has never abated; in fact it has grown keener in the passing years. He has served as an executive officer in some of the state organizations. Mr. Wardner will also be remembered as one of Vermont's important historians. His contributions in that field have been based upon original research and have won recognition as most valuable additions to an all too scanty literature dealing with the state's history in its various phases. In all this Mr. Wardner proved himself to be the worthy scion of one of the state's older families. And this statement holds true of his maternal ancestry as well as of the Wardner line. Intelligent, faithful, patriotic public service has been a tradition of these families through many generations.
Henry Steele Wardner was born in Windsor, July 8, 1867, the son of Henry and Caroline Paine (Steele) Wardner. After six years in the public schools in Windsor he made his preparation for college at the famous St. Paul's School in Concord, N. H. He graduated from Harvard College in 1888 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and then entered the Harvard Law School from which he graduated in 1891 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the bar in New York State in 1892 and was employed for two years in the office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Then followed some years of private practice. Since 1901 he has been general counsel and treasurer of the New Jersey Zinc Company and its allied interests.
While spending most of his time in New York City, Mr. Wardner also maintained a residence at the old family homestead in Windsor, and, as already intimated, Vermont interests held a very large place in his affections. He was one of the founders and the first president of the Morgan Horse Club. For many years Mr. Wardner wrote for the "Vermonter". To that magazine and the "Vermont Journal" he had been a frequent contributor. His book "The Birthplace of Vermont: A History of Windsor to 1871", published by Scribner's, appeared in 1927 and is one of the authoritative works on early Vermont history.
The state is indebted to Mr. Wardner for the salvage of the records of the Town of Windsor covering the period from 1769 to 1785 inclusive. These had lain for years in the basement of the Windsor Town Hall underneath a pile of firewood. When he discovered them the paper had already begun to disintegrated in places. He made a complete copy of these records and thus the Town and State escaped irreparable loss. He officiated as chairman of the Windsor celebration of Vermont's Sesquicentennial in 1927.
Henry Steel Wardner's grandfather, Allen Wardner, came to this state with his father, Frederick, Wardner, and removed to Windsor from Wardner Hill in the town of Reading in 1802.
On June 29, 1914, Henry Steele Wardner married in New York City, Mrs. Lillian (Millard) Darrach, widowed daughter of the late Dr. Perry H. Millard of St. Paul, Minnesota. Mr. Wardner is survived by his widow and by a sister, Mrs. R. W. Harrison of San Francisco, California."
He bred Morgan horses and became the first president and founding member of the Morgan Horse Club. He was also an active promoter of the Green Mountain National Forest, which was approved by the federal government in 1927 to 1928. Wardner was the author of "The Birthplace of Vermont: A History of Windsor" and "The Old Constitution House and Its Neighbors".
Transcribed below is the March 7, 1935 article from The Vermont Journal concerning his death and life.
"News was received in this village Monday evening of the death in New York city of Henry Steele Wardner. Pneumonia is given as the cause of death. Funeral services will be held at St. Paul's Episcopal church Friday, March 8, at 2 p.m., with interment in Ascutney Cemetery.
Although Mr. Wardner has been a New York city lawyer since 1892, his interest in Vermont, his native state, has never abated; in fact it has grown keener in the passing years. He has served as an executive officer in some of the state organizations. Mr. Wardner will also be remembered as one of Vermont's important historians. His contributions in that field have been based upon original research and have won recognition as most valuable additions to an all too scanty literature dealing with the state's history in its various phases. In all this Mr. Wardner proved himself to be the worthy scion of one of the state's older families. And this statement holds true of his maternal ancestry as well as of the Wardner line. Intelligent, faithful, patriotic public service has been a tradition of these families through many generations.
Henry Steele Wardner was born in Windsor, July 8, 1867, the son of Henry and Caroline Paine (Steele) Wardner. After six years in the public schools in Windsor he made his preparation for college at the famous St. Paul's School in Concord, N. H. He graduated from Harvard College in 1888 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and then entered the Harvard Law School from which he graduated in 1891 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the bar in New York State in 1892 and was employed for two years in the office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Then followed some years of private practice. Since 1901 he has been general counsel and treasurer of the New Jersey Zinc Company and its allied interests.
While spending most of his time in New York City, Mr. Wardner also maintained a residence at the old family homestead in Windsor, and, as already intimated, Vermont interests held a very large place in his affections. He was one of the founders and the first president of the Morgan Horse Club. For many years Mr. Wardner wrote for the "Vermonter". To that magazine and the "Vermont Journal" he had been a frequent contributor. His book "The Birthplace of Vermont: A History of Windsor to 1871", published by Scribner's, appeared in 1927 and is one of the authoritative works on early Vermont history.
The state is indebted to Mr. Wardner for the salvage of the records of the Town of Windsor covering the period from 1769 to 1785 inclusive. These had lain for years in the basement of the Windsor Town Hall underneath a pile of firewood. When he discovered them the paper had already begun to disintegrated in places. He made a complete copy of these records and thus the Town and State escaped irreparable loss. He officiated as chairman of the Windsor celebration of Vermont's Sesquicentennial in 1927.
Henry Steel Wardner's grandfather, Allen Wardner, came to this state with his father, Frederick, Wardner, and removed to Windsor from Wardner Hill in the town of Reading in 1802.
On June 29, 1914, Henry Steele Wardner married in New York City, Mrs. Lillian (Millard) Darrach, widowed daughter of the late Dr. Perry H. Millard of St. Paul, Minnesota. Mr. Wardner is survived by his widow and by a sister, Mrs. R. W. Harrison of San Francisco, California."
Henry Steele Wardner was the son of Henry and Caroline Paine (Steele) Wardner. He married Lillian Millard Darrah. He was a lawyer educated at Harvard and was admitted to the New York bar in 1892. He served for ten years as assistant United States Attorney for the southern district of New York. After 1901, he was general counsel for the New Jersey Zinc Company. Wardner and his cousin, attorney Maxwell Evarts challenged the constitutionality of the federal corporate tax in Flint v. Stone-Tracy Company.
He bred Morgan horses and became the first president and founding member of the Morgan Horse Club. He was also an active promoter of the Green Mountain National Forest, which was approved by the federal government in 1927 to 1928. Wardner was the author of "The Birthplace of Vermont: A History of Windsor" and "The Old Constitution House and Its Neighbors".
Transcribed below is the March 7, 1935 article from The Vermont Journal concerning his death and life.
"News was received in this village Monday evening of the death in New York city of Henry Steele Wardner. Pneumonia is given as the cause of death. Funeral services will be held at St. Paul's Episcopal church Friday, March 8, at 2 p.m., with interment in Ascutney Cemetery.
Although Mr. Wardner has been a New York city lawyer since 1892, his interest in Vermont, his native state, has never abated; in fact it has grown keener in the passing years. He has served as an executive officer in some of the state organizations. Mr. Wardner will also be remembered as one of Vermont's important historians. His contributions in that field have been based upon original research and have won recognition as most valuable additions to an all too scanty literature dealing with the state's history in its various phases. In all this Mr. Wardner proved himself to be the worthy scion of one of the state's older families. And this statement holds true of his maternal ancestry as well as of the Wardner line. Intelligent, faithful, patriotic public service has been a tradition of these families through many generations.
Henry Steele Wardner was born in Windsor, July 8, 1867, the son of Henry and Caroline Paine (Steele) Wardner. After six years in the public schools in Windsor he made his preparation for college at the famous St. Paul's School in Concord, N. H. He graduated from Harvard College in 1888 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and then entered the Harvard Law School from which he graduated in 1891 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the bar in New York State in 1892 and was employed for two years in the office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Then followed some years of private practice. Since 1901 he has been general counsel and treasurer of the New Jersey Zinc Company and its allied interests.
While spending most of his time in New York City, Mr. Wardner also maintained a residence at the old family homestead in Windsor, and, as already intimated, Vermont interests held a very large place in his affections. He was one of the founders and the first president of the Morgan Horse Club. For many years Mr. Wardner wrote for the "Vermonter". To that magazine and the "Vermont Journal" he had been a frequent contributor. His book "The Birthplace of Vermont: A History of Windsor to 1871", published by Scribner's, appeared in 1927 and is one of the authoritative works on early Vermont history.
The state is indebted to Mr. Wardner for the salvage of the records of the Town of Windsor covering the period from 1769 to 1785 inclusive. These had lain for years in the basement of the Windsor Town Hall underneath a pile of firewood. When he discovered them the paper had already begun to disintegrated in places. He made a complete copy of these records and thus the Town and State escaped irreparable loss. He officiated as chairman of the Windsor celebration of Vermont's Sesquicentennial in 1927.
Henry Steel Wardner's grandfather, Allen Wardner, came to this state with his father, Frederick, Wardner, and removed to Windsor from Wardner Hill in the town of Reading in 1802.
On June 29, 1914, Henry Steele Wardner married in New York City, Mrs. Lillian (Millard) Darrach, widowed daughter of the late Dr. Perry H. Millard of St. Paul, Minnesota. Mr. Wardner is survived by his widow and by a sister, Mrs. R. W. Harrison of San Francisco, California."
He bred Morgan horses and became the first president and founding member of the Morgan Horse Club. He was also an active promoter of the Green Mountain National Forest, which was approved by the federal government in 1927 to 1928. Wardner was the author of "The Birthplace of Vermont: A History of Windsor" and "The Old Constitution House and Its Neighbors".
Transcribed below is the March 7, 1935 article from The Vermont Journal concerning his death and life.
"News was received in this village Monday evening of the death in New York city of Henry Steele Wardner. Pneumonia is given as the cause of death. Funeral services will be held at St. Paul's Episcopal church Friday, March 8, at 2 p.m., with interment in Ascutney Cemetery.
Although Mr. Wardner has been a New York city lawyer since 1892, his interest in Vermont, his native state, has never abated; in fact it has grown keener in the passing years. He has served as an executive officer in some of the state organizations. Mr. Wardner will also be remembered as one of Vermont's important historians. His contributions in that field have been based upon original research and have won recognition as most valuable additions to an all too scanty literature dealing with the state's history in its various phases. In all this Mr. Wardner proved himself to be the worthy scion of one of the state's older families. And this statement holds true of his maternal ancestry as well as of the Wardner line. Intelligent, faithful, patriotic public service has been a tradition of these families through many generations.
Henry Steele Wardner was born in Windsor, July 8, 1867, the son of Henry and Caroline Paine (Steele) Wardner. After six years in the public schools in Windsor he made his preparation for college at the famous St. Paul's School in Concord, N. H. He graduated from Harvard College in 1888 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and then entered the Harvard Law School from which he graduated in 1891 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was admitted to the bar in New York State in 1892 and was employed for two years in the office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Then followed some years of private practice. Since 1901 he has been general counsel and treasurer of the New Jersey Zinc Company and its allied interests.
While spending most of his time in New York City, Mr. Wardner also maintained a residence at the old family homestead in Windsor, and, as already intimated, Vermont interests held a very large place in his affections. He was one of the founders and the first president of the Morgan Horse Club. For many years Mr. Wardner wrote for the "Vermonter". To that magazine and the "Vermont Journal" he had been a frequent contributor. His book "The Birthplace of Vermont: A History of Windsor to 1871", published by Scribner's, appeared in 1927 and is one of the authoritative works on early Vermont history.
The state is indebted to Mr. Wardner for the salvage of the records of the Town of Windsor covering the period from 1769 to 1785 inclusive. These had lain for years in the basement of the Windsor Town Hall underneath a pile of firewood. When he discovered them the paper had already begun to disintegrated in places. He made a complete copy of these records and thus the Town and State escaped irreparable loss. He officiated as chairman of the Windsor celebration of Vermont's Sesquicentennial in 1927.
Henry Steel Wardner's grandfather, Allen Wardner, came to this state with his father, Frederick, Wardner, and removed to Windsor from Wardner Hill in the town of Reading in 1802.
On June 29, 1914, Henry Steele Wardner married in New York City, Mrs. Lillian (Millard) Darrach, widowed daughter of the late Dr. Perry H. Millard of St. Paul, Minnesota. Mr. Wardner is survived by his widow and by a sister, Mrs. R. W. Harrison of San Francisco, California."
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