Founder of the Warren Featherbone Company.
He was married on November 3, 1867, to Sarah E. Stevens. Sarah died in 1879. Edward remarried on February 17, 1880, to Mary Louise Chamberlain, the daughter of Henry Chamberlain
Born in Ludlow, Vermont, E.K. Warren was the son of Rev. Waters and Caroline Clarissa Parsons, he came to Three Oaks at the age of eleven years where he grew up. His father the Rev. Waters Warren was a minister in the Congregational Church, holding pastorates principally in Vermont, New York, and other Eastern States.
On November 3, 1867 Edward Warren married Miss Sarah E. Stevens. Sarah died in 1879. Edward remarried on February 17, 1880, to Mary Louise Chamberlain, the daughter of Henry Chamberlain.
The first employment which Edward Warren secured as a boy was in a sawmill, where he received the munificent sum of fifty cents for a day's labor. On January 24, 1864, he was employed by Henry Chamberlain, who conducted a general mercantile business. This employment continued for five years, when J. L. McKie and E. K. Warren formed a partnership to conduct a dry goods business. Nine years later Mr. Warren purchased the general merchandising business of Henry Chamberlain and was interested in it until he entered the manufacturing field in 1883.
During the preceding years Mr. Warren, as a dry goods merchant, had sold whalebone, which, because of its tendency to brittleness was never entirely satisfactory as a dress stay, and which owing to an increasing scarcity was steadily advancing in price. Recognizing the necessity for an improved substitute, Mr. Warren set about to discover a material from which a durable and elastic dress bone could be constructed, he found it in the quill of a turkey. Mr. Warren organized to manufacture featherbone, the Warren Featherbone Company, made by innumerable and intricate processes into the many forms of dress boning material required by the public, and sent back to these same corners of the United States and even to foreign countries. In addition to his manufacturing interests, Mr. Warren controlled a bank and farms large tracts of marsh land. He owned long stretches of Lake Michigan beach and a ranch in the Panhandle of Texas.
Mr. Warren was intensely interested in the welfare of the village of Three Oaks. As president of the village board he was instrumental in accomplishing the erection of a village electric light and water plant. He was also a prohibitionist and worked to eliminate the sales of liquor in the town. Accordingly Mr. Warren offered to pay into the village treasury each year the sum of $250.00 per saloon, the amount of the saloon license, "so long" as no saloon should be permitted to open its doors for business in Three Oaks. This offer turned the tide of public sentiment and on March 24, 1899 and saloons were ruled out of Three Oaks, by ordinance, and Mr. Warren contributed the sum which equals the saloon licenses to the village.
Since his youth Edward K. Warren was interested in all forms of religious activity, but particularly in the work of the Sunday-school. As teacher and superintendent in the Congregational Sunday-school at Three Oaks, he participated in state, national, and world offices with the church.
At the end of his life, E.K. Warren lived on the lakefront in Evanston, Ill., and maintained a summer residence in Lakeside, Michigan. He died in Illinois in 1919, at age 72, after a short bout of pneumonia.
He was married on November 3, 1867, to Sarah E. Stevens. Sarah died in 1879. Edward remarried on February 17, 1880, to Mary Louise Chamberlain, the daughter of Henry Chamberlain
Born in Ludlow, Vermont, E.K. Warren was the son of Rev. Waters and Caroline Clarissa Parsons, he came to Three Oaks at the age of eleven years where he grew up. His father the Rev. Waters Warren was a minister in the Congregational Church, holding pastorates principally in Vermont, New York, and other Eastern States.
On November 3, 1867 Edward Warren married Miss Sarah E. Stevens. Sarah died in 1879. Edward remarried on February 17, 1880, to Mary Louise Chamberlain, the daughter of Henry Chamberlain.
The first employment which Edward Warren secured as a boy was in a sawmill, where he received the munificent sum of fifty cents for a day's labor. On January 24, 1864, he was employed by Henry Chamberlain, who conducted a general mercantile business. This employment continued for five years, when J. L. McKie and E. K. Warren formed a partnership to conduct a dry goods business. Nine years later Mr. Warren purchased the general merchandising business of Henry Chamberlain and was interested in it until he entered the manufacturing field in 1883.
During the preceding years Mr. Warren, as a dry goods merchant, had sold whalebone, which, because of its tendency to brittleness was never entirely satisfactory as a dress stay, and which owing to an increasing scarcity was steadily advancing in price. Recognizing the necessity for an improved substitute, Mr. Warren set about to discover a material from which a durable and elastic dress bone could be constructed, he found it in the quill of a turkey. Mr. Warren organized to manufacture featherbone, the Warren Featherbone Company, made by innumerable and intricate processes into the many forms of dress boning material required by the public, and sent back to these same corners of the United States and even to foreign countries. In addition to his manufacturing interests, Mr. Warren controlled a bank and farms large tracts of marsh land. He owned long stretches of Lake Michigan beach and a ranch in the Panhandle of Texas.
Mr. Warren was intensely interested in the welfare of the village of Three Oaks. As president of the village board he was instrumental in accomplishing the erection of a village electric light and water plant. He was also a prohibitionist and worked to eliminate the sales of liquor in the town. Accordingly Mr. Warren offered to pay into the village treasury each year the sum of $250.00 per saloon, the amount of the saloon license, "so long" as no saloon should be permitted to open its doors for business in Three Oaks. This offer turned the tide of public sentiment and on March 24, 1899 and saloons were ruled out of Three Oaks, by ordinance, and Mr. Warren contributed the sum which equals the saloon licenses to the village.
Since his youth Edward K. Warren was interested in all forms of religious activity, but particularly in the work of the Sunday-school. As teacher and superintendent in the Congregational Sunday-school at Three Oaks, he participated in state, national, and world offices with the church.
At the end of his life, E.K. Warren lived on the lakefront in Evanston, Ill., and maintained a summer residence in Lakeside, Michigan. He died in Illinois in 1919, at age 72, after a short bout of pneumonia.
Founder of the Warren Featherbone Company.
He was married on November 3, 1867, to Sarah E. Stevens. Sarah died in 1879. Edward remarried on February 17, 1880, to Mary Louise Chamberlain, the daughter of Henry Chamberlain
Born in Ludlow, Vermont, E.K. Warren was the son of Rev. Waters and Caroline Clarissa Parsons, he came to Three Oaks at the age of eleven years where he grew up. His father the Rev. Waters Warren was a minister in the Congregational Church, holding pastorates principally in Vermont, New York, and other Eastern States.
On November 3, 1867 Edward Warren married Miss Sarah E. Stevens. Sarah died in 1879. Edward remarried on February 17, 1880, to Mary Louise Chamberlain, the daughter of Henry Chamberlain.
The first employment which Edward Warren secured as a boy was in a sawmill, where he received the munificent sum of fifty cents for a day's labor. On January 24, 1864, he was employed by Henry Chamberlain, who conducted a general mercantile business. This employment continued for five years, when J. L. McKie and E. K. Warren formed a partnership to conduct a dry goods business. Nine years later Mr. Warren purchased the general merchandising business of Henry Chamberlain and was interested in it until he entered the manufacturing field in 1883.
During the preceding years Mr. Warren, as a dry goods merchant, had sold whalebone, which, because of its tendency to brittleness was never entirely satisfactory as a dress stay, and which owing to an increasing scarcity was steadily advancing in price. Recognizing the necessity for an improved substitute, Mr. Warren set about to discover a material from which a durable and elastic dress bone could be constructed, he found it in the quill of a turkey. Mr. Warren organized to manufacture featherbone, the Warren Featherbone Company, made by innumerable and intricate processes into the many forms of dress boning material required by the public, and sent back to these same corners of the United States and even to foreign countries. In addition to his manufacturing interests, Mr. Warren controlled a bank and farms large tracts of marsh land. He owned long stretches of Lake Michigan beach and a ranch in the Panhandle of Texas.
Mr. Warren was intensely interested in the welfare of the village of Three Oaks. As president of the village board he was instrumental in accomplishing the erection of a village electric light and water plant. He was also a prohibitionist and worked to eliminate the sales of liquor in the town. Accordingly Mr. Warren offered to pay into the village treasury each year the sum of $250.00 per saloon, the amount of the saloon license, "so long" as no saloon should be permitted to open its doors for business in Three Oaks. This offer turned the tide of public sentiment and on March 24, 1899 and saloons were ruled out of Three Oaks, by ordinance, and Mr. Warren contributed the sum which equals the saloon licenses to the village.
Since his youth Edward K. Warren was interested in all forms of religious activity, but particularly in the work of the Sunday-school. As teacher and superintendent in the Congregational Sunday-school at Three Oaks, he participated in state, national, and world offices with the church.
At the end of his life, E.K. Warren lived on the lakefront in Evanston, Ill., and maintained a summer residence in Lakeside, Michigan. He died in Illinois in 1919, at age 72, after a short bout of pneumonia.
He was married on November 3, 1867, to Sarah E. Stevens. Sarah died in 1879. Edward remarried on February 17, 1880, to Mary Louise Chamberlain, the daughter of Henry Chamberlain
Born in Ludlow, Vermont, E.K. Warren was the son of Rev. Waters and Caroline Clarissa Parsons, he came to Three Oaks at the age of eleven years where he grew up. His father the Rev. Waters Warren was a minister in the Congregational Church, holding pastorates principally in Vermont, New York, and other Eastern States.
On November 3, 1867 Edward Warren married Miss Sarah E. Stevens. Sarah died in 1879. Edward remarried on February 17, 1880, to Mary Louise Chamberlain, the daughter of Henry Chamberlain.
The first employment which Edward Warren secured as a boy was in a sawmill, where he received the munificent sum of fifty cents for a day's labor. On January 24, 1864, he was employed by Henry Chamberlain, who conducted a general mercantile business. This employment continued for five years, when J. L. McKie and E. K. Warren formed a partnership to conduct a dry goods business. Nine years later Mr. Warren purchased the general merchandising business of Henry Chamberlain and was interested in it until he entered the manufacturing field in 1883.
During the preceding years Mr. Warren, as a dry goods merchant, had sold whalebone, which, because of its tendency to brittleness was never entirely satisfactory as a dress stay, and which owing to an increasing scarcity was steadily advancing in price. Recognizing the necessity for an improved substitute, Mr. Warren set about to discover a material from which a durable and elastic dress bone could be constructed, he found it in the quill of a turkey. Mr. Warren organized to manufacture featherbone, the Warren Featherbone Company, made by innumerable and intricate processes into the many forms of dress boning material required by the public, and sent back to these same corners of the United States and even to foreign countries. In addition to his manufacturing interests, Mr. Warren controlled a bank and farms large tracts of marsh land. He owned long stretches of Lake Michigan beach and a ranch in the Panhandle of Texas.
Mr. Warren was intensely interested in the welfare of the village of Three Oaks. As president of the village board he was instrumental in accomplishing the erection of a village electric light and water plant. He was also a prohibitionist and worked to eliminate the sales of liquor in the town. Accordingly Mr. Warren offered to pay into the village treasury each year the sum of $250.00 per saloon, the amount of the saloon license, "so long" as no saloon should be permitted to open its doors for business in Three Oaks. This offer turned the tide of public sentiment and on March 24, 1899 and saloons were ruled out of Three Oaks, by ordinance, and Mr. Warren contributed the sum which equals the saloon licenses to the village.
Since his youth Edward K. Warren was interested in all forms of religious activity, but particularly in the work of the Sunday-school. As teacher and superintendent in the Congregational Sunday-school at Three Oaks, he participated in state, national, and world offices with the church.
At the end of his life, E.K. Warren lived on the lakefront in Evanston, Ill., and maintained a summer residence in Lakeside, Michigan. He died in Illinois in 1919, at age 72, after a short bout of pneumonia.
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