Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1907-09-27
DEATH OF GILMAN WARREN.

Gilman Warren died at the Memorial
hospital last Friday night after an ILL
ness of less than two days of an liberated
stomach causing perforation. He had
complained Of a stomach trouble all
summer and had arranged to stop his
work with Leslie Smith at the end of
the week for a period of rest and recu-
peratiOn. He went to work as usual
Thursday morning, but was soon taken
i'll and was carried to his home on
Frost street at about II o'clock Medi-
cal attendance and "A nurse were Sc
cured but he continued in great distress
and was removed to the hospital Friday
forenoon. In spite of the constant ef-
forts of physicians and nurses he failed
rapidly and died at g. As p. m. His eldest
son, w. b. Warren. was with him to the
end.
Mr. Warren was born in Hubbardston,
Mass, Feb. 20, 1886. He was a descend
ant In the seventh generation, from John
Warren, who came to Salem with Gov
ernor Winthrop in 1880, and he numbered
among his ancestors Ebezener Warren,
a minute man in the Revolutionary war
and a cousin of Gen. Joseph Warren who
fell at Bunker Hin.
Gilman Warrens higher education was
obtained at Leland and Gray seminary.
Townshend, and at Eaton's commercial
college, Worcester, Mass, from which he
was graduated in 1856. He was a miner in
California for the next few years but, re-
turning, he bought, in 1861, the Governor
Carpenter place in Gulford upon which
he lived for five years. He then bought
the farm and sawmill in Halifax now
owned by his son. and lived there for %
years, farming, manufacturing chair
stock and cider jelly and dealing in lum-
Der. He has since lived in Brattleboro,
for u years in the house at 81 Frost
street which he bought of Gardiner War
rem.
Mr.. Warren married, Nov. 7, 1860, Fran
celia Adelaide daughter of the late Isaiah
w. Johnson of Vernon. Four children
were born to them: William Barney, of
Halifax; Walter Isaiah of Waterbury.
Conn: Webster Gilman, who died in 1887,
and Merton Horace of Worcester, Mass.
Besides his wife and three sons Mr..
| Warren is survived by a sister, Mrs. Roll
| lin c. White of Cleveland, Ohio, and
brother, Elijah Warren of Gardner, Mass.
Funeral services were held at the house
Monday at l o'clock, Rev. a. II. Webb of
| the Methodist church officiating. He
| spoke briefly of the uncertain tenure OF
! our lives and how much wiser 1t is to
| lay up enduring riches of human char
| aCter than to strive for those that are but
temporary. Miss Gertrude Matthews sang
After" and Lead Kindly Light" The
| floral tributes were numerous and beau
| tiful and included roses, carnations and
asters and a pillow bearing the word
Father" The bearers were the nearest
| relatives. Burial was at Vernon in the
| family lot in the city" cemetery.
Mr.. Warren was always actively inter-
! ested in politics and in all public matters,
| his views being liberal and progressive.
| He held offices of trust in Guilford and
| was selectman and overseer of poor for
| the town of Halifax acting as town
| grand juror for nine years. He was
| clerk and treasurer OF his school district
| for 10 years. He was of strong and stir
ring disposition and very capable and
dependable In time of trouble or sick
ness. He loved his home and was ex-
ceedingly proud of his children and grand
children. He Joined the Methodist Epis-
copal church in Green River about 1878
The funeral was largely attended in
spite of the pouring rain. Relatives pres
ent from out of town were Mr.. and Mrs.
Elijah Warren of Gardner, Mass, Asapn
Warren of Orange; Walter l. Warren of
Waterbury, Conn, and Mr.. and Mrs. T.
w. Johnson of Bernardston, Mass.