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LUCINS BOLLS WARNER. It may be said of Lucins Bolls Warner, without detracting aught from any other whose name stands high on the roll of Jamestown's useful citizens, that his honesty and integrity, his career of industry and his public-spirited services and liberal contributions for the development and the prosperity of his town, furnish an example that may be profitably followed by every young man who aspires to a position of thrift, usefulness and respectability. He was born at Millington, Middlesex county, Connecticut, March 3, 1828, and is a son of Ephraim and Mary Spencer (Miner) Warner.

In 1850 he came to Jamestown, where he established himself in the furniture and chair business. After five years of unremunerative returns in that line of business, Mr. Warner, having faith in a rapid future development of Jamestown, resolved to deal largely in lumber. He then commenced the planing-mill and lumber business on Baker street, south of the Outlet. After fourteen years of successful business, his mill was destroyed by fire, August 23, 1867. He then purchased the property on Baker street south of the Outlet, known as the Baker mill, where his mill and lumberyards are at present situated.

For over thirty-three years his business has increased with the growth of the town, until now his lumber plant is one of the important and essential enterprises of Jamestown. His plant covers three and one-half acres in extent, embracing large storage yards, a saw-mill, 56 x 90 feet in dimensions, and a planing-mill 56 x 106 feet in dimensions.

One who is well acquainted with Mr. Warner and his works states that every facility known to the trade is afforded the customers of this house, and its high reputation, maintained for a third of a century in the same location, is the best evidence of its popularity and stability.

Mr. Warner is a man of good judgment in financial matters. In politics he is a republican, but takes no active part in political affairs, and desires no office. Unsolicited he has held a number of offices of public trust, where he rendered good service with credit to himself. No citizen of Jamestown has ever been more interested in its prosperity, or contributed more freely to any object calculated to advance its material, mental or moral welfare than Lucins Bolls Warner. Commencing life as a poor boy, he has won both ample fortune and honorable position, by ability, energy and inflexible honesty. In 1887 he supplied a great need in Jamestown by erecting what is known as the Warner block. It is an imposing five-story brick building, of 80 x 156 feet in dimensions. It is occupied by large stores and business offices. He enjoys the good will and respect of the citizens of Jamestown, and is recognized by all who know him as a public-spirited citizen. He possesses those characteristics which clearly define a strong individuality, self-reliance, even temper on trying occasions, and uniform kindness. Honesty, integrity, generosity and public-spiritedness are some of the pronounced traits of character on which Mr. Warner has built a symmetrical manhood of substantial moral worth.