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 WARREN. WARREN. 6 3: The Norwich University, of Northfield, Vt., conferred upon him in 18S9 the hon- orary degree of LL. D. Dr. Warren was married September 24, 1854, to Caroline Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Caswell and Mary (Warren) Everett. Of this union were two children : a daugh- ter, deceased, and a son, Charles Everett Warren, physician and author, who is as- sociated with his father. WARREN, NATHAN, son of Nehemiah and Sally (Wyman) Warren, was born in Waltham, Middlesex county, February n, 183S. He received a common school and aca- demic education in the schools of Waltham, where he fitted for college, but changing his plans, he sought a business career, and in pursuance of this, entered a wholesale dry-goods house in Boston. Upon the failure of this house he was in New York for a short time in a commission house, just previous to the breaking out of the civil war. In 1S62 he enlisted in the 45th regiment, Massachusetts volunteers, and served with that regiment in North Carolina during its period of enlistment. Subsequently in the war he was in the department of the Gulf, where he acted as provost-marshal of one of the parishes of Louisiana, and later, at its close, was in the war depart- ment in Washington. After the war he was interested in the shipping business in Boston, and in this connection visited the Cape Verd Islands and several points on the coast of Africa. He has also traveled quite extensively through Europe, and before the advent of railroads in that section of the country, crossed the great plains of the Northwest and Yellowstone region on a horseback trip with an exploring party. He has been connected with life insur- ance business for some years, and has given considerable study and attention to its theory and practice. He is the cashier of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York, and its representative in Boston. Mr. Warren was married in Springfield, January 18, 1883, to Charlotte E., daugh- ter of Francis B. and Charlotte (Hare) Bacon. Of this union is one child : Rich- ard Warren. Mr. Warren represented Waltham in the Legislature in 1880 and '81, and served as chairman of the insurance committee on the part of the House, and as a member of the special joint committee for the compi- lation of the present code of the public stat- utes. He was chairman of the board of trustees of the public library of Waltham, for several years, master of Monitor Lodge of Free Masons two years, and has always been active as a public-spirited citizen in whatever has related to the welfare of the community in which he has lived. He has been quite prominent in political matters ; has been a member of the Republican state central committee ; and in 1S88 was president of the Republican Club of Wal- tham. Mr. Warren has been considerably inter- ested in historical research, local and gen- eral, and has been a frequent contributor editorially and otherwise to the Boston press on questions of public interest. WARREN, William Fairfield, son of Mather and Anne M. Warren, was born at Williamsburgh, Hampshire county, March He was graduated from esleyan Uni- versity in 1853. In 1855 and '56 he was in charge of a church in Andover, and from 1856 to '58 studied in Berlin, Halle, and Rome. He traveled in Greece, Egypt, Palestine, etc., residing in all, over seven years abroad. In 1S59-60 he was pastor of the Brom- field Street M. E. church, Boston; from 1 86 1 to '66 professor of systematic theology in the Missions-anstalt, Bremen, Germans ; from 1S66 to '73 professor of systematic theology in the Boston Theological Semi- nary, and acting president of the same. From 1873, the year of its foundation, to the present time, he has been president of Boston University, professor of compara- tive history of religion, comparative theol- ogy, and the philosophy of religion. He received the degree of D. U. from the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1862, and that of LL. D. from the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., in 1874. Among the more significant features of Dr. Warren's life-work thus far may be named: a new presentation of theology to the theologians of Germany ; the re-or- ganization of the oldest theological semi- nary of the Methodist Episcopal church ; the organization of the Boston University; the reconstruction of ancient cosmology and mythical geography, particularly the Homeric ; the discovery — as many believe — of the cradle of the human race; and the promotion of international university co-operation in advancing the highest as well as broadest educational ideals. President Warren has been a copious writer, the titles of a part of his publica- tions filling nearly four octavo pages of the