This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Warner, Bristol, Clark, Horner, Humphrey Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VRB.2ACE/1783 Message Board Post: SOURCE: Biographical Review of the Leading Citizens of Livingston and Wyoming Counties New York Boston, Biographical Review Publishing Company, 1895 HIRAM BOSTWICK WARNER, an energetic farmer of Lima, Livingston County, N.Y., was born in that town August 7, 1826, the year when John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died, on Independence Day. Mr. WARNER’s grandfather, William, came from Canaan, N.Y., to this section of the country in company with his brother, Asahel, in 1794. They first located a claim, and in the fall of that year went back and were married in the winter of 1794-95. In the spring they and their wives, joined by two other brothers, migrated with ox teams, crossing Cayuga Lake on the ice in the month of March, a dangerous undertaking at that season of the year. Daniel and William WARNER settled first in Richmond, Ontario County, where they remained from 1793 to 1811, when they came to Lima, then known as Charleston, William brining seven children. They traveled by marked trees, as there was then only one road – the old road from Albany to Buffalo – in this section. The four brothers WARNER built log houses, and, in clearing the land, burned many acres of fine, heavy timber. Indians were numerous and to a certain extent troublesome. The WARNERS raised flax and wool, and made all their own clothing. Seed potatoes were brought with them for future crops. Later on William WARENER was Captain of the militia at Lima. He wife was Lois BRISTOL, belonging to another pioneer family. Grandfather WARNER was one of fourteen children, and with seven of his brothers served in the Revolution. He and his wife reared a family of nine, as follows: Henry WARNER, born October 9, 1797, died April 26, 1877; Polly WARNER born December 24, 1798, died in September 1873; Miles B. WARNER, born July 31, 1800, died May 20, 1877. Amelia WARNER and Amanda WARNER, twins, were born March 26, 1803; Amelia died March 1, 1823, and Amanda on January 4, 1865. William WARNER, born August 10, 1807, died February 4, 1850. Albert, born November 13, 1809, is still l! iving. Abel, born January 29, 1812, died January 15, 1832. Lois N., born September 14, 1813, died December 23, 1831. Miles Bristol WARNER, their third child, father of the subject of the present sketch, was educated at the district schools of Richmond and Lima, and was a singing-teacher nearly all his early life. He carried on the farm purchased in 1811, and lived in Lima all the remainder of his days, dying at the age of seventy-seven, at the home of his son Hiram in the village of Lima. His wife was Jane R. CLARK, the daughter of Thomas CLARK, of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Said Thomas CLARK emigrated from Drumore township, Lancaster County, to Ontario County, New York, in 1799, and as he wrote in his Bible, “No road out, no road in.” Their son, Hiram Bostwick WARNER, with the exception of a sister who lived to the age of sixteen, was the only child. Hiram was educated at the district schools of Lima, and later attended the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary in that town working at the homestead farm until late in life. He removed to the village of Lima in 1876, but continued to carry on the farm until 1879, when he sold out and retired from active life. April 27, 1854, he married Harriet HORNER, daughter of Hugh and Sarah E. (HUMPHREY) HORNER, of Northampton County, Pennsylvania,. Mr. and Mrs. WARNER have never had children of their own; but their affectionate natures have prompted them to adopt two, who are grown up, married, and are now living in comfortable homes of their own. The WARNERs are much respected members of the Lima Presbyterian church. Mr. WARNER has been a Republican in politics since 1864, casting his first Presidential vote for General Taylor, the Whig candidate, in 1838, the year the Mex! ican War closed. “Oh, blest retirement, friend to life’s decline How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease!” So writes that graceful poet, Oliver Goldsmith, and his lines are illustrated by such a career as those herein chronicled.