Person:Charles Warner (15)

BIOGRAPHY: The Descendants of Andrew Warner Lucien C. Warner, M.D., LL.D & Mrs. Josephine Genung Nichols The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. Co. New Haven, Conn. 1919 Page 616 - 617

  Charles Adams Warner, son of Park and Joanna (Adams) Warner, born in Amherst, Mass., September 5, 1829; died in Chaska, Minn., October 27, 1867. He sailed for California from Boston on March 1, 1849, with a party of over a hundred men from New England who had formed a company and purchased the vessel Regulus and equipment. After a voyage of about seven months they landed at San Francisco on September 29th. Mr. Warner spent the winter near Benicia making shingles and in the spring went to Salmon Falls on the south fork of the American River thirty-five miles from Sacramento City to engage in mining.
  In 1856 Mr. Warner went to Minnesota and located at Chaska the following year. There he kept a frontier store; was postmaster; took an important part in territorial politics and the establishment of  state government; was Senator for Carver County in 1860; established the Chaska Herald in 1860; was a Mason of high degree. In the History of the Minnesota Valley it is stated, "It is due to the memory of T. D. Smith and Charles A. Warner to state that much of the business prosperity of Chaska was due to their enterprise, when in the early day of competition the weight of one man's character often decide the prestige of  a town.
  Charles A. Warner was married  in Easthampton, Mass., September 5, 1851, to Catherine Knight, born in Stafford, Conn., April 25, 1829, died in South Hadley, Mass., February 19, 1902, daughter of Milo and Mary (Ingalls) Knight. She  was descended from David and Sarah (Backus) Knight, who were married March 17, 1691-2 and resided in Norwich, Conn.; Benjamin Knight, who was wounded at the falling of a bridge across the Shetucket in 1728, an accident in which many lives were lost, and his wife, Mary Adams; Asher and Mary (Clark) Knight; Milo Knight and his wife, Mary Ingalls, the daughter of Calvin and Mary (Horton) Ingalls.

History and Genealogy of the Eastman Family of America Guy K. Rix, Concord, N. H. Part IV - 1901 - Page 769 Shows that Charles Adams Warner's mother was the daughter of Clarissa Eastman.

MEDIA: D0211 - Charles Adam Warner husband of Catherine Knight