Individual Details
Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Warren
(11 Sep 1835 - 23 Jul 1919)
>From a letter from Sandy Warren to Lucille Lovejoy Voights:
"My fathers right name while they called him was Frank- was really B.F. Warren. Benjamin Franklyn Warren, born at Bangor Maine, 1834 came to California, 1853 gold rush days. Took sailing ship around the horn- 5 months. Went back later and brought the Lovejoy’s out to California by way of the Isthmus of Panama 54 miles railroad track. (Parts left out) Lovejoy’s used to talk of Wedges Creek (sic Wages Creek) and the sawmill there. My grandfather "Morgan Locke" was head sawyer there years ago. So they tell me. My father passed away June-1919 age 85.
First your question to birth mementos. My birthday is August 4th, 1887, Born in San Francisco. Fred was born at Shelter Cove on the coast. Mendocino County. Clifford- born at San Francisco Date-1882"
Ukiah City Press (Ukiah, California) Fri, Nov 1, 1878, Page 5
Real Estate Transfers.
A Lovejoy to B F Warren, 160 acres in tp 11 n, r 15 w, $1,500.
From the Ft. Bragg Advocate, dated 30 July 1919.
"B.H. Warren, an early coast lumberman, died at Point Arena, July 23. 1919 at the age of 84. He came to California via Cape Horn in the early 1850's. He established a sawmill at Fish Rock in 1858. In 1860, he went to Gualala. Three sons, Fred H., S.L. Warren of Tonapah, Nevada, and C.L. Warren in the East survived. " (Per Kathy Clarke Smith)
This is the same information shown in: Births, Deaths and Marriages on California's Mendocino Coast. Volume Two 1910 - 1919, Jul 30, 1919, Page 171 (Susan Slade-Grossl)
Events
Families
Spouse | Isadora Locke (1863 - 1900) |
Child | Fred Hodgdon Warren (1879 - 1964) |
Child | Clifford Warren (1882 - ) |
Child | Leland Stanford "Sandy, Stan" Warren (1887 - 1971) |
Father | Horatio Warren (1805 - 1837) |
Mother | Clarinda Hodgdon (1814 - 1876) |
Sibling | Charles Frederick Warren (1833 - 1876) |
Sibling | Tristram Horatio Warren (1835 - 1894) |
Sibling | Harriet Watson Warren (1837 - 1907) |
Notes
Birth
Parents: Horatio WarrenParents, Warren & Carlinda
one record has : 11 September 1836
Census
Living with his mother Clarinda and stepfather Alfred Graves. No wife listed.Census
pg. 54590, 590, Warren, Charles F, 38 MW, Hewing R R Ties, - , 1800, ME
591, blank
592, blank
593 591 Warren, Benjamin F. 35 M W Hewing RR Ties 2000 personal value Maine
--------- Rebecca 36 F W Keeping House Maine
--------- Hattie E. 13 F W Maine
Graves, Augustus 27 M W Labourer Maine
Green, John 30 M W Labourer Ireland
Note: Augustus Graves is Benjamin's half brother. Rebecca and Hattie E. are the wife and daughter of his brother Charles F. Warren.
Census (family)
This record is next door to the Abial Lovejoy family.B. L. WARREN Self Married Male W 45 ME Timber Dealer ME ME
Isadore WARREN Wife Married Female W 17 IL --- ---
Census
Living with son Fred H Warren, WidowedFred H Warren M 30y California
Spouse Minnie E Warren F 30y California
Parent Benjamin F Warren M 74y, widowed Maine
Leland S Warren M 22y, brother, single California
Endnotes
1. Slade-Grossl, Susan D., Emailed research on descendants of Clarinda Warren. (
2. "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org: accessed 25 October 2015), Benjamin F. Warren, Sep 1836; citing CIVIL, GUILFORD, PISCATAQUIS, MAINE; FHL microfilm 10,923..
3. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.).
4. "California Great Registers, 1866-1910," database, FamilySearch (: accessed 25 October 2015), Benjamin Franklin Warren, 17 Jul 1866; citing Voter Registration, Arena, Mendocino, California, United States, county clerk offices, California; FHL microfilm 976,935..
5. 1870 Census, Mendocino Co., California (Microfilm from Sonoma Co. Library Annex, Santa Rosa., CA Read 5/11/00, Nancy EH Prouty.).
6. "California Marriages, 1850-1945," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org: accessed 17 August 2015), B. F. Warren and Isadore Locke, 11 Aug 1879.
7. "United States Census, 1880," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M6PG-WRD : accessed 20 July 2012), Isadore Warren in household of B. L. Warren, Salt Point, Sonoma, California..
8. "California Great Registers, 1866-1910," database, FamilySearch (: accessed 25 October 2015), Benjamin Franklin Warren, 22 Sep 1882; citing Voter Registration, Northport, Mendocino, California, United States, county clerk offices, California; FHL microfilm 976,935..
9. A Seeker, "Evergreen Cemetery, Manchester, Mendocino Co. California," database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed ), Warren.