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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Union County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1890.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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B. W. M. Warren, a well-known resident of Hillsboro, Union County, Ark., was born in Greene County, Ala, on November 7, 1822, being the fifth of seven children born to R. H. and Lydia (Minter) Warren, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of South Carolina, their marriage being celebrated in North Carolina. About 1818 they moved to Alabama, and about 1824 to Tennessee, and from there to Tippah County, Miss., taking up their permanent abode in Columbia County, Ark., in 1848, the former’s death occurring there in 1852, his widow dying in Lee County, Tex., in 1876. B. W. M. Warren spent the most of his boyhood in Tippah County, Miss., and was educated at Sharon in the same State, where he studies law under his second cousin, H. S. Bennett, judge of the Supreme Court, who resided at Columbus, Miss. In 1844 Mr. Warren began practicing law in Tippah County, continuing two or three years, then formed a connection with his brother, Col. E. A. Warren, and located and practiced law for some time in the town of Lewisville, Ark. They afterward dissolved partnership, and B. W. M. Warren went to the Lone Star State, his brother moving to Camden, Ark., where he acquired quite a reputation as a criminal lawyer, became a prominent politician, and twice represented his district in the halls of Congress, his political opponent for the nomination both times being Albert Rust, a Democrat. After his removal to Texas, the subject of this sketch followed farming two years, after which he moved back to Columbia County, Ark., and resumed farming, this occupation receiving his attention until 1851, when he began merchandising in Camden, a calling he continued to follow until the breaking out of the war. In 1863 he came to Union County, and the following year enlisted as a private, in the Confederate army, Ninth Arkansas Regiment, serving until the cessation of hostilities. He has been married three times, first to Miss Annie Parish, of La Grange, Tenn., but she died in 1849, leaving two children: Edward B. (at present living at Weatherford, Tex.), and Lavinia (who died in 1884). In 1850 Mr. Warren wedded Miss Mary E. Stuart, of Camden, Ark., and to them four children were born, which are as follows: Johnnie C. (who died in 1888), Robert H. (who is living in Union County), Mary E. and Lenora. The mother of these children passed from life in 1861, and two years later Mr. Warren married his third and present wife, Mrs. Henrie R. Shulenberger, who was born in Alabama in 1834, and moved to the State of Arkansas in 1840 with her parents. Her father was I. P. Tatum. In 1874 Mr. Warren began to take an active interest in politics, and that year was elected to the State Senate, and has been elected every term since, when Union County was entitled to the Senator. He has been a successful lawyer, and is held in respect by the court and bar, while his hold upon the hearts of the people is still deeper. His popularity with the masses has come to him unsought, and is the natural result of his deep sympathy with humanity. He is a Royal Arch Mason, and has presided over the Blue Lodge at least half of his life. He and his wife are worthy members of the Missionary Baptist Church.

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