A former President and member of the Continental Congress had unique ties to Warren County - the proposed formation of a colony for Jewish converts to Christianity. Now, it should be clear that we’re not talking about that “President” or that “Continental Congress.” Yes, ...
Daniel McQuay. He was Irish but it’s not clear when he came to the United States. It’s not clear where he went after here. It’s not clear where he’s buried. But some sources give him a notable distinction - the first European inhabitant of Warren County. Here’s what I’ve ...
So how do you celebrate a centennial? Warren’s 1895 answer? A parade, lots of gunpowder, speeches, fireworks and baseball. What could be more American than that? The Warren Mail on July 18, 1895 gives us a day-by-day breakdown of the festivities. Before we get into that, a word about ...
love a good guess at what the future will be. Some are based on the facts as best known at the time. Others are based on a wish and a prayer (literally, a prayer in the instances where people guess at the precise timing of the second coming). Warren’s town fathers did a fair amount of ...
It appeared and then disappeared in a matter of five years. But Warren once had a soap company. The Truth Soap Company took over a smaller concern and set up shop in a Fourth Ave. factory in April 1895. The Warren Evening News hailed the opening in May 1895 - “ANOTHER NEW INDUSTRY FOR ...
From the Warren Mail on March 18, 1865: “We have not the greatest flood in the history of Warren.” While the Kinzua Dam certainly limits such activity along the Allegheny, spring floods in Warren County aren’t an unusual phenomenon. Warren was 70 in 1865 when, just weeks before the ...
