User:HappilyHuntingGenes

Hon. Chief Justice Henry L. Warren
'''Hon. Chief Justice Henry L. Warren'''

Judge Henry L. Warren,was a prominent member of the bar of New Mexico, was an ex-Chief Justice of Montana, and was the senior member of the well-known law firm of Warren & Fergusson of Albuquerque. He was entitled to some special consideration in this work, and it was gratifying to us to hear present a sketch of his life. Judge Warren was born in Quincy,Adams County, Illinois, August 21, 1837. He traces his ancestry back to the [Richard] Warren family of England who came over on the Mayflower and distinguished themselves in the Revolution at Bunker Hill. The Judge's father was Hon. Calvin Averill Warren Esq.,born in New York. He married Miss Viola A. Morris, daughter of Sen. Thomas Morris of Clermont, Ohio, who was one of the first settlers of Cincinnati, who was for twenty-six years a member of the Ohio Legislature, and later of the United States Senate, and who has gone into history as the man who gave U. S. Grant his appointment to West Point. When Judge Warren was four years old his mother[Viola] died, aged twenty-four years. His father[Calvin d. 1881] lived to be seventy-two. The Judge is one of the only survivor's of the family, with his brother,Charles Ashley Warren[m. Mary A. Randall, daughter of John Talcott Randall, Will County, Illinois], a prominent lawyer of Chicago,Illinois. He attended the Naval Academy at Annapolis and Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. He was a cadet midshipman. He resigned at the close of the second year in order to turn his attention to the study of law and entered his father's office, his father at that time being a member of the law firm of Warren & Skinner. Mr. Skinner afterward became one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois.

In 1858, Henry was admitted to the bar in Missouri by Judge Norton. He practiced law at Maryville and St. Joseph, Missouri, until the outbreak of the Civil war, when he returned to his native town, Quincy, Illinois. There he continued the practice of his profession. He served as City Attorney and also as a member of the Illinois State Legislature, and while in Quincy received from President Johnson the appointment of Chief Justice of Montana, in which capacity he officiated four years, during that time making several decisions which have stamped him as possessed of fine legal ability. At the expiration of his term of office he returned to his family in Illinois. Soon after he was retained at St. Louis, Missouri, in two very important law cases, which detained him there for eight years. From that city he was called to Leadville, Colorado, as an attorney in large mining litigation, and after this, in 1880, he came to Santa Fe, New Mexico. He made his home in Santa Fe for seven years, during that time being in partnership with E. A. Fisk. [Records find him in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, NM.] Since June, 1887, the Judge has been identified with Albuquerque, as senior member of the firm of Warren & Fergusson. Judge Warren was married in 1858 to Miss Mary L. Warren, a cousin and daughter of Ansel Warren. They had four children, of whom only one son, Paul, a surveyor,had survived [whom later passed away at his own hands in San Francisco, California]. The wife and mother, Viola, after thirty-four years of being happily married, passed away in 1891.

Fraternally, the Judge has been a Mason for many years in which order he has taken the Commandery degrees. Politically, he is a life-long Democrat. [Source: "An Illustrated History of New Mexico . . .;" The Lewis Publishing Company, 1895; transcribed by GT Transcription Team and ♡Transcribed here by Mrs Walker/GrandNiece Babejem@yahoo.com.