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Family HistoryFamily History - Alexander Warner


Key:1.“+” before a child’s name indicates the child has their own entry in the next generation.
 2.“born xxxx” indicates the child is under 18 years of age so the birth date is not shown.
This family history features Alexander Warner and four of his descendants down to the third generation.


First Generation
1. Alexander Warner,1 born 10 January 1827 in Smithfield, Providence County, Rhode Island, the son of Thomas Warner and Amy Collins;1 died September 1914 in Point Pleasant, Ocean County, New Jersey.1 Alexander married, 27 September 1855, Mary Trumbull Mathewson1, 3 (born ca. 1833, the daughter of Rufus Smith Mathewson and Faith Williams McClellan;1, 2 Mary died 19021). Alexander is buried in Woodstock, Windham County, Connecticut.1

At the age of eight years, Alexander removed with his family to Woodstock, Connecticut, where he was educated at the Woodstock Academy and later at the academy in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. He left school to enter business with his father in the manufacture of cotton twine. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was the first man to enlist, as a private, but was later appointed by Governor Buckingham, Major of the Third Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, and participated with his command in the first battle of Bull Run. He was afterwards made Lieutenant-Colonel of the Thirteenth Connecticut Volunteers, joined the Department of the Gulf and shared in most of the important engagements. After a short retirement, from ill health, he was ordered to raise and organize the Fifth Louisiana Regiment for the defense of New Orleans, which he commanded until ill health again compelled him to retire. He was subsequently appointed special agent of the Treasure Department in New Orleans.

In the autumn of 1865, Colonel Warner purchased a large plantation in Madison County, Mississippi, and was active in trying to secure just treatment for the freedmen, a course which he pursued regardless of threats and persecutions from the native whites. He was appointed Secretary of State by the military commander, Major-General of the State Melitia, was trustee and treasurer of the State University, six years a member of the State Senate, for part of the time its President and ex-officio Lieutenant-Governor, and three times a delage to the National Republic convention.

In 1877 Colonel Warner purchased a fine stock farm in Pomfret, Connecticut, later removing to “Sunnyside,” in the same town. In 1886 he was State Treasurer. He was prominently identified with various agriculture societies, while holding extensive interests in the west. About 1890 he resided in Baxter Springs, Kansas, was President of the Baxter Bank, and state Representative for two terms. He was a Mason and a member of the Loyal Legion Commandery of Massachusetts. After his wife’s death he made his home with his son at Point Pleasant, New Jersey.1, 3


+2i. Benjamin Sillman Warner, born 24 September 1856. Married Sarah Loise Trowbridge.
 3ii. Arthur McClellan Warner, born 13 April 1860;1, 3 died 4 September 1860.1, 3

  1. Abbe-Abbey Genealogy, in Memory of John Abbe and His Descendants, by Cleveland Abbe and Josephine Genung Nichols. New Haven Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1916. Pages 235, 236, 349, 350. Digitized copy available at Google Books.
  2. History of Windham County, Connecticut, Edited by Richard M. Bayles, W. W. Preston & Co., New York, 1889. Digitized copy available at www.archive.org. Pages 552-553, biographical sketch of Rufus S. Mathewson.
  3. History of Windham County, Connecticut, Edited by Richard M. Bayles, W. W. Preston & Co., New York, 1889. Digitized copy available at www.archive.org. Pages 554-556, biographical sketch of Alexander Warner.
Second and Third Generations
2. Benjamin Sillman Warner2 (Alexander1), born 24 September 1856.1, 2 Benjamin married, 3 June 1886, Sarah Loise Trowbridge1, 2 (born 8 February 1865 in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, the daughter of Edward Trowbridge and Sarah Ann Smith2).

Benjamin was educated in the south and at Putnam and Sheffield Scientific Schools in Connecticut, was graduated from the University of the City of New York in 1882 and admitted to the bar of Windham County, Connecticut. He resided for a time in Pomfret, Connecticut, where he was a justice of the peace, notary public, and assessor. He also resided in Baxter, Kansas, and Salisbury, Maryland.2


 4i. Arthur Trumbull Trowbridge.
 5ii. _____ Trowbridge.

  1. History of Windham County, Connecticut, Edited by Richard M. Bayles, W. W. Preston & Co., New York, 1889. Digitized copy available at www.archive.org. Pages 554-556, biographical sketch of Alexander Warner.
  2. Abbe-Abbey Genealogy, in Memory of John Abbe and His Descendants, by Cleveland Abbe and Josephine Genung Nichols. New Haven Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1916. Pages 235, 236, 349, 350. Digitized copy available at Google Books.