Charles Newell Warren

Birth Date

1818-07-21

Death Date

1889-03-25

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Jefferson County, Kentucky, civil engineer and banker. Massachusetts native. Son of Jonas Warren and Dolly Warren. Married to Myra Aldridge Warren in Garrard County, Kentucky, on May 30, 1843. Father of Frank Warren, Mary Warren, Emily Warren, Charles Warren, Anna Warren, Myra Warren, and William Warren. Graduated from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1834. Civil engineer in Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Jefferson County in 1850. Banker in Jefferson County in 1860. Employed Ellen McCormick as a domestic servant in Jefferson County in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Jefferson County in 1860. Partner with J.P. Curtis and Henry P. Rutter in the banking firm Curtis & Warren in Louisville in 1860 and in 1861. Founder of the firm C.N. Warren & Company Bankers in Louisville from 1861 to 1865. President of the Louisville City National Bank in Louisville in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 2, p. 178A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 2, p. 76.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 4, p. 53-54.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 4, p. 267A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 5, p. 562B.
Massachusetts Vital and Town Records, Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Holbrook Research Institute, Oxford, Massachusetts. Stowe Births, Marriages, Deaths, and Intentions, 1714-1823, vol. 4 Fiche #136, p. 147.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Garrard County Marriages, Film #000183256, p. 27-28.
Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Harvard University, 1639-1839, (Cambridge, MA: Folsom, Wells, and Thurston, University Printers, 1839), 64.
“Harvard Commencement.”The Evening Post (New York, NY). Sept. 1, 1834.
Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 67, 96, 274.
The Bankers’ Magazine and Statistical Register, ed., J. Smith Homans, vol. XV. (New York: J. Smith Homans,1861): 76.
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. I (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 461-462.
"Charles Newell Warren (1818-1889)," Find A Grave, Memorial #101073756, accessed July 22, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101073756.
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