Henry Warren

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Resolutions and Journal entries

• Member roster, 11th Legislature, Regular Session: Henry Worren, El Paso, El Paso County, Remarks: In'igible, too young. Senate Journal.

Biographical Sketches

• Biographical sketch, Henry Warren, Chapter 4, Weatherford, Texas, footnote 5, p. 146. "Henry Warren came to El Paso in 1864, a Republican who purchased the confiscated property of Southern sympathizers . . . later elected senator of the 11th Legislature from El Paso and Presidio counties, but could not get to Austin in time to qualify for his senatorial duties." Warren was a government freighter and his wagon trains were attacked on 5/18/1871. He came to Weatherford in 1872, and later took up ranching in Texas and then Arizona, as manager and part owner of the Aztec Cattle Company.
  Henry W. Warren, President of Parker County Supply and Construction Company, Captain Henry Warren to negotiate with the Texas and Pacific railroad, Chapter 6, Henry P. Du Bellet and the Texas and Pacific Arrive in Weatherford, pp. 171-172. The Franco-Texan Land Company, 1969.
• Biographical sketch, p. 61. Came to Texas in 1864 from New York, "the six-hundred-mile journey from his district [El Paso] to Austin took him so long that the legislature had adjourned before he arrived." The Texas Senate: Volume II, Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889, 1999.

Other Resources

• Census of 1910 - Henry Warren, El Paso, El Paso County, age 60, born circa 1850 in New York, manager/cattle ranch, wife Sue, son Richard. FamilySearch. 1910
• WARREN WAGONTRAIN RAID. "On May 18 [1871] the Indians attacked a wagon train belonging to a freighting contractor named Henry Warren traveling on the Butterfield Overland Mail route." Includes photo of historical marker. Handbook of Texas Online.
• Senators, p. 379. "Isaac Parker, W.R. Shannon, and A.J. Ball, of Parker county, were senators in the legislature of Texas, and Henry Warren was elected from the thirtieth district, in 1866, but never served in the body." Historical Sketch of Parker County and Weatherford, Texas, 1877.
• Mentioned, pp. 81, 85. "Henry Warren of Franklin, Texas, county clerk and recorder of deeds for the County of El Paso, Texas," appointed 1/5/1866. The Legal Heritage of El Paso, 1963.
• Captain Henry Warren, one of three "prominent cattlemen of this state," "Personal," El Paso Daily Times, 5/12/1885, p. 4. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).
• "Henry Warren, who had come to Texas from New York and was elected state senator from El Paso, had settled in Weatherford and joined Couts in J. R. Couts and Company. Warren was a civic leader in town and became famous when his wagon train was attacked by Indians near Jacksboro. After several years, he and several other business leaders organized the First National Bank in 1880." "Banking on it -- Part II," 4/15/2017. Weatherford Democrat, 1895.

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

• 11th session composite photo of Senate members (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History). By the Austin Photograph Co., Prints and Photographs Collection, [identifier number: di_03923, di_03924], The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

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