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HENRY WARNER, superintendent of Allegheny County Workhouse, post office Hoboken, was born in Allegheny county, in 1838, a son of Henry Warner, Sr., who immigrated to America from his native city, Dublin, Ireland, about 1823. Henry, Sr., was a book keeper, an occupation he followed in America. His wife was Mary Riddle, also of Ireland, and they were the parents of four children, of whom Henry, Jr., is the youngest. Having attended the public schools of Allegheny City until fifteen years of age, our subject was employed for three years as clerk, and then engaged one year as book keeper in a flouring-mill. At the end of that time he became a partner in the firm of John Taggart & Co. In 1862 he enlisted as private in Independent Battery G; was promoted September 1, 1862, to duty-sergeant; to quartermaster-sergeant in December, 1862; April, 1863, to first sergeant; September, 1863, to junior second lieutenant; October, 1864, to post-adjutant at Fort Delaware. In December, 1864, he commanded a ten-gun battery at Reedy Point, and was discharged in 1865 at the close of the war. After the war he located in Oil City and engaged in a general merchandise business under the firm name of Warner, Lewis & Co., a partnership which lasted one year. He then returned to Allegheny City, and for four years was employed as bookkeeper for Mr. Alexander Patterson, during which time he was elected member of the common council of that city; was reflected in 1868, 1869 and 1870, and elected president of the council in January of that year. In 1870 he was nominated by the republicans and elected to the legislature. In 1871 he was elected comptroller of Allegheny county, entering upon the duties of his office in 1872; was re-elected to that position and served until 1878, in which year he was defeated for re-nomination. During the first years of his term in office he was manager of the Morganza Reform school. In 1879 he was elected general manager and first vice-president of the Pittsburgh & Southern Railroad company, which position he filled until April 15 of the same year, when he resigned, having been appointed by the courts of common pleas, Nos. 1 and 2, county commissioner to settle the losses incurred by the railroad riot of 1877. He was nominated and elected by the people in 1881 to the office of county commissioner, but never served, being appointed superintendent of the Allegheny County Workhouse, which position he fills at date.

Mr. Warner married, in 1866, Annie L. Little, daughter of John H. Little, of Sewickley, Allegheny county. Five children have blessed this union, three of whom are living: Elizabeth Patterson (now at Pennsylvania Female College), Edward Little and Anna Isabella. During the public career of Mr. Warner he has filled fifty-four offices, and the high esteem in which he is held by those who know him is the best guarantee of the ability and honesty of the man. He is a member of the G. A. R., also of the Sixth U. P. Church of Allegheny City; politically he is a republican.