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Bangs F. Warner

BIOGRAPHIES OF VAN BUREN CO., MICHIGAN RESIDENTS in 1912
From A HISTORY OF VAN BUREN COUNTY MICHIGAN
By Captain O. W. Rowland
Volume II

Published by
The Lewis Publishing Company
Chicago and New York
1912

Bangs F. Warner- Selected for his appointment to the postmastership of Paw Paw in 1900, because of his supposed special fitness for the office, Bangs F. Warner has demonstrated in his continuous service in the position since his first appointment that there was wisdom and good judgment in the selection, and that expectations involved in making it have been fully met in the capable and faithful performance of his official duties. He came to the office with his faculties well trained and his knowledge of public affairs expanded to considerable magnitude in a long and varied previous experience in several lines of usefulness, in all of which he has exhibited a high sense of duty and every quality of upright and enlightened manhood in the performance of it in an able and satisfactory manner.
Mr. Warner's life began in Almena township, Van Buren county, Michigan, on June 24, 1858. His parents, Elam L. and Charlotte M. (Bangs) Warner, were born in the state of New York, and further mention of the genealogy of this prominent family is made in the biographical sketch of Jerome C. Warner, uncle of the subject, which is found on other pages of this work. In this locality the father of Bangs F. Warner grew to manhood, was married and reared his offspring. He died in 1902, at the age of seventy-four years. The mother is still living and has now reached the age of seventy-seven. The father was a farmer all his life and at the time of his death he owned one hundred and sixty-six acres of fine farming land in this county, which showed the benefit of his well-applied industry throughout a long series of years in its high state of development and cultivation, the complete and comfortable character of its buildings and other improvements, together with its general attractiveness and value as a farm and a rural home. The mother is still living in Van Buren county and is now the oldest of its people in continuous residence within its boundaries. She is venerated as a veritable "Mother in Israel" on this account and she also enjoys the high regard of all classes of the population because of her integrity of character, uprightness of life and strong American womanhood. She and her husband were the parents of four children, one of whom, Roy E., died an infant. Those living are : Frances A., who resides in Paw Paw; Bangs F., the immediate subject of this brief memoir; and Junia J., who resides in Oakland, California, and is the general passenger and freight agent of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad in that city, having held said position for number of years.
Bangs F. Warner grew to manhood and was educated in this county, having been graduated from a high school in 1876, at the age of eighteen. After completing his education he became a farmer during the summer months and taught school in the winters of several years. He conducted schools at Kendall, Breedsville, and other places in this county and at Middleville in Barry county, continuing in the profession until 1883, when he moved to Paw Paw and turned his attention to insurance as an occupation and means of advancement.
In 1889 he went to Idaho, and there for three years he bought range horses for shipment to the eastern markets. In 1893 he returned to his farm of one hundred acres in Waverly township, this county, where he remained until 1897, and made a specialty of dealing extensively in hay. In the year last mentioned he again moved to Paw Paw, but continued his transactions in hay and has done so to the present time (1911). He has also been the postmaster of the city continuously sine 1900, as has been noted, and enjoys an excellent reputation and general popularity for the manner in which he conducts the office and provides for the comfort and convenience of the people, whose welfare he makes the first consideration in the performance of his official duties within the law and the regulations governing the services which, of course, he is obliged to obey.
Mr. Warner was married on November 2, 1882, to Miss Clara Bray, a daughter of Benjamin and Rebecca (Clark) Bray, and by this marriage became the father of one child, his son Leo E., who is now a bookkeeper in the First National Bank of Paw Paw. The father is a Republican in his political faith and allegiance and always loyal to his party, but he never allows party considerations to interfere with the faithful and impartial discharge of his duties. In fraternal relations he is affiliated with the Masonic order, the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America.
The people of Van Buren county esteem him highly for his upright and commendable manhood, his enterprise and public spirit as a citizen and his ability and fidelity as a public official. He also ranks high in business circles as a progressive and far seeing dealer, modern in his methods and strictly square in all his transactions. He well deserves the rank they accord him as one of their leading and most representative men and in every feature of his daily life exemplifies it.

Date	1912
ID	360
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