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SUMMARY:* Henry L Warner and the Warner Free Lecture at Harvard Historical Society
DESCRIPTION:Henry L Warner and the Warner Free Lecture\n\n"For many ages good public lectures have ranked among the most useful and interesting methods of combined entertainment and instruction."\n\n\n\nJanuary 22\, 2016 7:30 p.m. Volunteers Hall\n\nThe Franklin Expedition and Northwest Passage--Then and Now\n\n\n\nAbout Henry L. Warner\n\n\n\n\n\nHenry as an older man\, in Sioux City\n\n\n\nHenry was born on East Bare Hill Road in 1834. The farm was opposite159 E. Bare Hill Road-- the house is no longer there.\n\n\n\nHis parents died before he was 10\; he was brought up by his grandfather Noah Warner\, a graduate of Brown University. His grandfather may have taught him the value of education by sending him out to work at a young age. After graduating from Union College\, he taught school\, studied law\, moved west\, went overland to Montana with an ox team in 1866\, and ended up in Sioux City Iowa as rancher\, publisher\, mayor\, and bank president.  Although he suffered losses in the great collapse of 1893\, he remained a wealthy man.\n\n\n\nIn 1891 he donated $10\,000 for to found Harvard's Public Lecture Fund\, with the only restriction to avoid controversial matters such as religion and politics.\n\nHe also gave the money to buy the land for Bellevue Cemetery in 1893\, and was buried there in 1904.  Three of his five children died as babies\, one as a teenager\, and one did not marry\, so he had no descendants.\n\n\n\nNoah Warner's bill from Brown University 1827
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<br />\n<span style="color:red\;"><span style="font-family:arial\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt\;">Henry L Warner and the Warner Free Lecture</span></span></span><br />\n<span style="color:#505050\;"><span style="font-family:arial\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt\;">&quot\;For many ages good public lectures have ranked among the most useful and interesting methods of combined entertainment and instruction.&quot\;</span></span></span><br />\n<br />\n<strong><span style="color:red\;"><span style="font-family:arial\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt\;">January 22\, 2016 7:30 p.m. Volunteers Hall</span></span></span></strong><br />\n<span style="color:red\;"><span style="font-family:arial\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt\;"><strong>The Franklin Expedition and Northwest Passage--Then and Now</strong></span></span></span><br />\n<br />\n<span style="font-family:arial\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt\;">About Henry L. Warner</span></span><br />\n<br />\n<span style="color:#505050\;"><span style="font-family:arial\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt\;"><img height="384" id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/d0f1f3efc24ea8fd5339ccc38/images/332ac202-6bda-4ca5-9a55-334072343593.jpg" style="border-width: 0px\; border-style: solid\; width: 250px\; height: 384px\;" width="250" /></span></span></span><br />\n<span style="color:#505050\;"><span style="font-family:arial\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt\;">Henry as an older man\, in Sioux City</span></span></span><br />\n<br />\n<span style="color:#505050\;"><span style="font-family:arial\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt\;">Henry was born on East Bare Hill Road in 1834. The farm was opposite159 E. Bare Hill Road-- the house is no longer there.<br />\n<br />\nHis parents died before he was 10\; he was brought up by his grandfather Noah Warner\, a graduate of Brown University. His grandfather may have taught him the value of education by sending him out to work at a young age. After graduating from Union College\, he taught school\, studied law\, moved west\, went overland to Montana with an ox team in 1866\, and ended up in Sioux City Iowa as rancher\, publisher\, mayor\, and bank president.&nbsp\; Although he suffered losses in the great collapse of 1893\, he remained a wealthy man.<br />\n<br />\nIn 1891 he donated $10\,000 for to found Harvard&#39\;s Public Lecture Fund\, with the only restriction to avoid controversial matters such as religion and politics.<br />\nHe also gave the money to buy the land for Bellevue Cemetery in 1893\, and was buried there in 1904.&nbsp\; Three of his five children died as babies\, one as a teenager\, and one did not marry\, so he had no descendants.</span></span></span><br />\n<br />\n<span style="color:#505050\;"><span style="font-family:arial\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:9.0pt\;">Noah Warner&#39\;s bill from Brown University 1827</span></span></span><br />\n<span style="color:#505050\;"><span style="font-family:arial\,sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt\;"><img height="400" id="_x0000_i1026" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/d0f1f3efc24ea8fd5339ccc38/images/4ba467ad-ce58-4c14-a2ed-7241ec922dcb.jpg" style="border-width: 0px\; border-style: solid\; width: 350px\; height: 400px\;" width="350" /></span></span></span><br />\n<br />\n<br />\n&nbsp\;
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