We discovered this interesting grave site of General Charles S. Warren in the Mount Moriah Cemetery in Butte. General Warren enlisted at the age of 18 years in Company A, 132nd Illinois Infantry Regiment to serve in the Union Army
on May 2, 1864.
"Charles S. Warren was born in Illinois in 1846, served in the Union Army in the Civil War, and in 1866 drove a bull train to Virginia City, Montana Territory. He taught school in the Deer Lodge valley while placer mining during the summers. From 1869 to 1875 he served as deputy sheriff and sheriff, of Deer Lodge. He later moved to Butte where he continued his activities in mining and also became the first police magistrate. Later he was elected clerk of U.S. District Court, and was a member of the state Constitutional Convention in 1889. He established the Comanche Mining Company, the Charles S. Warren Realty and Mining Company, and in association with Lee Mantle, the Intermountain Publishing Company.
Charles married Mittie Avery of Maine, in 1871. They had a daughter Mary.
Source: Archives West
We discovered this interesting grave site of General Charles S. Warren in the Mount Moriah Cemetery in Butte. General Warren enlisted at the age of 18 years in Company A, 132nd Illinois Infantry Regiment to serve in the Union Army
on May 2, 1864.
"Charles S. Warren was born in Illinois in 1846, served in the Union Army in the Civil War, and in 1866 drove a bull train to Virginia City, Montana Territory. He taught school in the Deer Lodge valley while placer mining during the summers. From 1869 to 1875 he served as deputy sheriff and sheriff, of Deer Lodge. He later moved to Butte where he continued his activities in mining and also became the first police magistrate. Later he was elected clerk of U.S. District Court, and was a member of the state Constitutional Convention in 1889. He established the Comanche Mining Company, the Charles S. Warren Realty and Mining Company, and in association with Lee Mantle, the Intermountain Publishing Company.
Charles married Mittie Avery of Maine, in 1871. They had a daughter Mary.
Source: Archives West
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