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WARNER, VALENTINE, blacksmith, lives in Milo; born September 5, 1822, in Huntington county, Pennsylvania; here he learned his trade with Geo. Bauchman, of Holidaysburg; came to Iowa in 1852, and after living in Van Buren and Jefferson counties he came to Belmont township, in the fall of 1856, and bought a farm of eighty acres, upon which he built a shop, and combined blacksmithing with his farming; at the starting of the new town of Milo, he, in connection with Thos. Fountain, established a blacksmith and wagon shop, where he now Works; he enlisted August 10, 1862, in Co. D, Thirty-fourth Iowa Infantry, as private; was promoted to Sergeant February 5, 1863, served to the close of the war and was discharged in September, 1865; he was never in the hospital, and never off duty while in the service; he was in all the battles in which the regiment was engaged —a record of which any man might well feel proud; was married July 10, 1845, to Miss Mary Robinson, of Pennsylvania, who died December 31, 1877, leaving him a family of eleven children: Austin, Sylvester, Elizabeth J., Mattie A., Albert, Ella, Joseph, Eddie, Silas, Charles, and James; Charles, Elizabeth and Joseph are deceased.