WARREN
WARREN
and Bermuda Hundred, and after the evacuation
of Richmond and Petersburg, was given com-
mand of the troops at Petersburg and along the
Southside raih-oad, subsequently commanding the
department of the Mississippi. After repeated
requests for an investigation of his conduct at
Five Forks, a court of inquiry was granted him,
Dec. 9, 1879, by President Hayes, by which he
was vindicated, Nov, 31, 1881. President Arthur
authorized the publication of the findings and
opinion of the court. He was brevetted brigadier-
general, U.S.A., March 1.3, 1865, for Bristoe Sta-
tion, and major-general the same date, for serv-
ices in the field during the Rebellion. He re-
signed his volunteer commission, May 27, 1865,
and devoted himself to the preparation of maps
and reports of his campaigns, June, 1865-July,
1866. He was a member of the board of engi-
neers to examine the Washington canal, March-
May, 1866, and had charge of the surveys of the
upper Mississippi and of the Fox and Wisconsin
rivers, 1866-83, being
promoted lieutenant-col-
onel, March 4, 1879. He
was elected a member
of the American Asso-
ciation for the Advance-
ment of Science in 1858 ;
a member of the. Amer-
ican Philosophical so-
5 ciety in 1867 ; of the
American Society of
Civil Engineers in 1874,
and of the National
Academy of Sciences in
1^76. A heroic statue
of General Warren by
Paul Gerhardt was un-
veiled on Little Round
Top, Gettysburg, Pa.,
Aug. 8, 1888. He is the
WARRLN 5T/1TUE. GETTTSBuRs author of I Explovafions
in Dacota Country (3 vols, 1855-56) ; Prelim-
inary Report of Explorations in Nebraska and
Dacota in the Years, 1S55-57 (1858) ; An Ac-
count of the 5th Army Corps, at the Battle of Five
Forks (1866) , and various government reports on
military and engineering subjects. See " General
W^arren at Five Forks and the Court of Inquiry "
in ■' Battles and Leaders of the Civil War" (Vol.
IV.). He died at Newport. R.L, Aug. 8, 1882.
WARREN, Henry White, M.E. bishop, was born in Williamsburg, Mass., Jan. 4, 1831 ; son of Mather and Anna Miller (Fairfield) Warren, and brother of William Fairfield Warren (q.v.). He attended school at Wilbraham ; matriculated at Wesleyan university, Middletown, Conn., with the class of 1849 ; taught natural science at Amenia seminary, New York, during 1852, and
was graduated from Wesleyan with honor, A.B.,
1852, A.M., 1858. He taught Latin and Greek at
Wilbraham academy, 1853-55 ; was married,
April 6, 1855, to Diantha A. Kilgore of Bartlett,
N.H., who died, June 31, 1867, leaving two
daughters and one sou, Henry Mather W^arren
(Wesleyan, A.B., 1881), who became a lawyer in
Philadelphia. Bishop Warren joined the New
England conference, April, 1855, and served its
itineracy in and about Boston, Mass., 1855-71 ;
was a representative in the state legislature,
1863 ; was transferred to the Philadelphia con-
ference, 1871, to the New York East conference,
1874, and back to Philadelphia in 1877. He was
a delegate to the General conference, 1880, where
he was elected bishop of the Methodist Episcopal
church. He was a delegate to the Methodist
Ecumenical conference, 1882. He worked first
among the blacks and poor whites in the south,
and during his four years' residence at Atlanta,
Ga., developed schools for the trades and for the
study of theology and medicine. On Dec. 27,
1893, he was married, secondly, to Mrs. Elizabeth Iliff, of Denver, Colo., who founded the Iliff School of Theology in connection with the Uni- versity of Denver, and which she liberally en- dowed. Bishop Warren received the honorary degree of D.D. from Dickinson college in 1892, and LL.D. from Ohio W^esleyan university in
1894. He wrote Sunday-school lessons every week for fifteen years, and is the author of : Sights and Insights : or Knoidedge by Travel (1874); Studies of the Stars (1878); Recreations in Astronomy (1879); The Lesser Hymnal (1875); The Bible in the World's Education (1892) ; Studies in the English Bible (1894) ; Among the Forces (1898), and edited Tlie Study, 1896-1903.
WARREN, James, patriot, was born in Ply- mouth, Mass., Sept. 28, 1726; a descendant of Richard Warren, who came to America with other Pilgrims in the Mayfloioer in 1620. He was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1745; A.M., 1748, and became a prosperous merchant in Plymouth. He was married in 1754 to Mercy, daughter of James and Mercy (Allyne) Otis, and sister of James Otis, the orator. Mrs. Warren wrote the satires : " Squabble of the Sea Nymphs " and "The Group"; the tragedies: "The Sack of Rome " and "The Ladies of Castile," both of which were published in " Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous" (1790), and a "History of the American Revolution " (3 vols., 1805). James Warren was sheriff of Plymouth county, 1757-75 ; a representative in the general court of Massa- chusetts, 1766-74 ; member of the committee of correspondence in 1772 ; president of the provin- cial congress of Massachusetts in 1775 ; paymas- ter-general of the Revolutionary army, while it remained in Cambridge, Mass., and was major-