People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 27-25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — HARDWARE STORE OF N. WARNER & SONS. N. WARNER & SONS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HARDWARE STORE OF N. WARNER & SONS. N. WARNER & SONS.

Norman Warner, the senior member of this firm, is a native of Rush county, Indiana, and is now nearly sixty-three years old. He was a carriage maker and for run a thriving blacksmith shop in Rensselaer, to which place he came Feb. 24, 1857. He was a “49er” but remained only a short time in California. He is undoubtedly the joliiest individual in Rensselaer, and certainly no one could be more accommodating in business matters. He is a member of she Church of God. Associated with him in the hai’dware and implement business are his son§, Grant (D. G.) and Hale, (N. H.) who are thorough business men, and most agreeable gentlemen. They have established a very large and successful trade.