1835 .
EDWARD WARNER, eldest son of Caleb and Mary (Pearson)
Warner, was born at Salem, Mass., Nov. 9, 1814, and died
Sept. 14, 1866, at New Brighton, Pa.
He entered Dartmouth College in 1831, where he remained
two years, and then transferred his relations to the
Junior Class, at New Haven.
After leaving College, he first engaged in teaching, but having
a taste for mathematics, soon turned his attention to the
study of civil engineering, under the direction of Mr. Latrobe,
of Baltimore. While under the tuition of Mr. Latrobe, and
subsequently, he was employed on the surveys for the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, afterward became Chief Engineer of
the Cleveland and Mahoning and other roads, and was engaged
in the surveys for the route across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
He also took a course of law reading in the office of the
Attorney General at Washington, and was admitted to the
bar. In later years he was occupied with professional pursuits
in New York City, until ill health, in Aug. last, confined
him to his residence at New Brighton, where he died.
He married, in 1842, Sarah Ellen, daughter of Geo. W. Dashiell,
of Washington, D. C, who, with two children, survives
him.
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