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the general assembly of Ohio, 1902-03. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred upon liim .l)y Baldwin university in 1894. Dr. Warner eilited the Sunday-school lesson comments in the Western Cltrisdan Advocate, 1879-84, and a Com- mentdi'!/ on Galntians (1S83).

WARNER, Olin Levi, sculptor, was born in S.iffield. Conn., April 9, 1844. He removed with his father, an itinerant Methodist minister, to Amsterdam, N.Y., where he attended the public scliools, and later the Seward Institute. He was a telegraph operator and from 18GG to 18G9 was employed in the Southern Express company's <.mce at Atlanta, Ga. In 1869 he sailed for Paris: studied sculpture at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, 1869-73, and opened a studio in New York city in 1872. He was a member of the Society of American Artists, 1877-96, and an associate of the National Academy of Design, 1888-96. Among liis works are the statuettes May {181:2), and Twilight (1878); a colossal medallion of Ed- win Forrest (1876); Dancing Nym2}h (1879); statues of Governor Williams A. Buckingham, in the capitol at Hartford, Conn., William Lloyd Garrison in Boston and General Charles Devens; and portrait busts of Rutherford B. Hayes, J. Alden Wier (1880). Maud Morgan and William F. Morgan (1887). He received the commission for the bronze doors for the main entrance of the new Congressional library at Washington, and completed one, but before he could start the second, he died at New York city, Aug. 14, 1896. WARNER, Seth, soldier, was born in Roxbury parish, Woodbury, Conn., May 17, 1743; son of Dr. Benjamin Warner. He removed with his father to Bennington, Vt., in 1763, having joined the movement to the New Hampsliire grants, and became well known as a hunter and trapper. In 1771 he was elected captain of a company of Green Mountain Boys organized to resist New York authority, and was outlawed with Ethan Allen. At the outbreak of the Revolutionary war, he was appointed second in command of the ex|)edition to Ticonderoga, and although he was left with the rear-guard on the east sliore of the lake, while Allen and a small detachment took Fort Ticonderoga, he successfully led the detach- ni'Mit that captured Crown Point. He seconded .Vllen's efforts to secure an invasion of Canada, an'l accompanied him to Philadelphia and Albany to urge the plan on the Continental congress. A regiment of native Vermonters was raised, and Warren was elected its colonel, but the New York congrefis withheld commissions from the regiment, and the Continental congre.ss upheld the action. When the inva.sion of Canada was finally begun in the fall of 1771, Warner and his Green Mountain Boys joined General Mont- gomery, by whom he was api)ointed colonel and

sent to Montreal to watch the enemy. He de- feated General Carlton's attempt to raise the siege of Quebec, and commanded at an action at Longueil. The regiment was discharged, Nov. 20, 1775, but Warner raised a regiment for the re- lief of the army after the repulse at Quebec, and when the retreat was made toTicoderoga he com- manded the rear-guard. He was commissioned colonel of a regiment of regular troops for per- manent service, and was stationed at Ticonderoga throughout the campaign of 1776. In 1777 he raised a troop of 900 Vermonters, and marched them to the relief of St. Clair at Ticonderoga, July 5, 1777, but on the evacuation of the post he again commanded the rear-guard, and on being overtaken by Fraser in command of the British advance, July 7, 1777, was defeated at the battle at Hubbardston and retreated to Manchester, where hepi'otected the stores at Bennington and arrested Burgoj'ne's advance by harassing his flanks. He aided in planniiig the attack on Raum's intrenchment during the battle of Ben- nington, Aug. 16, 1777, and led the charge on Breyman's battalion that gained time for the American troops to rally and form a new line-of- battle. He served with General Gates through- out the rest of campaign; commanded the expe- dition to Lake George landing, and captured the British vessels there. He was ordered to Albany in April, 1778, and sent by Schuyler on a partic- ular command intoYessop's Patent, which he ex- ecuted with skill and address, guarding against the Indian attacks, watching the Tories, and pro- tecting communications. He was wounded from an ambush of Indians in September, 1780, and re- turned to Bennington. Tiie proprietors of several towns had voted him land as a reward for his services, but most of it was sold for taxes, and in 1777 congress granted him 2,000 acres in Essex county. In 1782 he Avas a member of a com- mittee to protest to Governor Chittenden against the sending of prisoners to Canada. He died in Roxbury, Conn., Dec. 26, 1784, and the state of Connecticut caused a granite obelisk about twenty-one feet high, to be erected over his grave. WARNER, Susan, author, was born in New- York city, July 11, 1819; daughter of Henry W. and Anna M. (Bartlett) Warner. At an early age she evinced decided literary talent. Her first novel, r/ie Wide Wide irorW (2 vols.) was published under the pen name of " Elizabeth Wetherell " in 1849 and attained a phenomenal and continued popularity, being translated into French and German. Its successor, Qneechy (1852), almost ecpially successful, was translated into Swedish. In addition to works written with her sister, Anna Bartlett Warner, she is also the author of: The Law and the Testimony, a compilation of Scripture texts (1853); The Hills