Jabez and his brother John S. Warner left Springfield, Massachusetts in 1806 & located near St. Louis, Missouri. Eventually Jabez carried on a large coopering business in St. Louis using both free and slave labor to make flour barrels for the mills in that city. He was lieutenant in the war of 1812 & Captain in the Black Hawk War. He also served as sheriff and probate judge of St Louis County.
Jabez Warner married Aug. 11, 1811 to Elizabeth Conner, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Zimmerman) Conner. The Conner's were from Charleston, S.C. and slave owners. On the marriage of their daughter Elizabeth to Jabez Warner, they made them a present of household slaves.
On the first of June, Jabez Warner, with his two sons, came up Rock river on a flat boat, bringing a stock of goods, and stopped in Prophetstown, IL.. Mr. Crocker having then just left the place, taking his goods with him. Mr. Warner moved his goods into the same building, and formed a co-partnership with Simon Page, after which the stock of goods was increased.
The Indians were quite plenty that year and between them and the whites, Warner & Page did considerable business. Blackhawk's youngest daughter purchased her wedding outfit of Mr. Warner, unless she lied about it, which is not at all probable of an Indian. Page sold out to Warner the next year, and when last heard from was living in California. Mr. Warner did not replenish his stock, and soon commenced farming.
Jabez Warner and family were a great acquisition to the town, and there has not been an event of any importance in the history of Prophetstown in which their influence has not been felt. Mr. Warner brought the rest of his family early in 1838. He boarded in 1837 with his brother, John S. Warner, who came in June of that year, and was the first white man with a family that settled on the present village plot. John S. Warner afterwards attempted to take out a pre-emption, but, as a town had been laid out on the land, it was not granted.
Jabez Warner married Aug. 11, 1811 to Elizabeth Conner, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Zimmerman) Conner. The Conner's were from Charleston, S.C. and slave owners. On the marriage of their daughter Elizabeth to Jabez Warner, they made them a present of household slaves.
On the first of June, Jabez Warner, with his two sons, came up Rock river on a flat boat, bringing a stock of goods, and stopped in Prophetstown, IL.. Mr. Crocker having then just left the place, taking his goods with him. Mr. Warner moved his goods into the same building, and formed a co-partnership with Simon Page, after which the stock of goods was increased.
The Indians were quite plenty that year and between them and the whites, Warner & Page did considerable business. Blackhawk's youngest daughter purchased her wedding outfit of Mr. Warner, unless she lied about it, which is not at all probable of an Indian. Page sold out to Warner the next year, and when last heard from was living in California. Mr. Warner did not replenish his stock, and soon commenced farming.
Jabez Warner and family were a great acquisition to the town, and there has not been an event of any importance in the history of Prophetstown in which their influence has not been felt. Mr. Warner brought the rest of his family early in 1838. He boarded in 1837 with his brother, John S. Warner, who came in June of that year, and was the first white man with a family that settled on the present village plot. John S. Warner afterwards attempted to take out a pre-emption, but, as a town had been laid out on the land, it was not granted.
Jabez and his brother John S. Warner left Springfield, Massachusetts in 1806 & located near St. Louis, Missouri. Eventually Jabez carried on a large coopering business in St. Louis using both free and slave labor to make flour barrels for the mills in that city. He was lieutenant in the war of 1812 & Captain in the Black Hawk War. He also served as sheriff and probate judge of St Louis County.
Jabez Warner married Aug. 11, 1811 to Elizabeth Conner, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Zimmerman) Conner. The Conner's were from Charleston, S.C. and slave owners. On the marriage of their daughter Elizabeth to Jabez Warner, they made them a present of household slaves.
On the first of June, Jabez Warner, with his two sons, came up Rock river on a flat boat, bringing a stock of goods, and stopped in Prophetstown, IL.. Mr. Crocker having then just left the place, taking his goods with him. Mr. Warner moved his goods into the same building, and formed a co-partnership with Simon Page, after which the stock of goods was increased.
The Indians were quite plenty that year and between them and the whites, Warner & Page did considerable business. Blackhawk's youngest daughter purchased her wedding outfit of Mr. Warner, unless she lied about it, which is not at all probable of an Indian. Page sold out to Warner the next year, and when last heard from was living in California. Mr. Warner did not replenish his stock, and soon commenced farming.
Jabez Warner and family were a great acquisition to the town, and there has not been an event of any importance in the history of Prophetstown in which their influence has not been felt. Mr. Warner brought the rest of his family early in 1838. He boarded in 1837 with his brother, John S. Warner, who came in June of that year, and was the first white man with a family that settled on the present village plot. John S. Warner afterwards attempted to take out a pre-emption, but, as a town had been laid out on the land, it was not granted.
Jabez Warner married Aug. 11, 1811 to Elizabeth Conner, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Zimmerman) Conner. The Conner's were from Charleston, S.C. and slave owners. On the marriage of their daughter Elizabeth to Jabez Warner, they made them a present of household slaves.
On the first of June, Jabez Warner, with his two sons, came up Rock river on a flat boat, bringing a stock of goods, and stopped in Prophetstown, IL.. Mr. Crocker having then just left the place, taking his goods with him. Mr. Warner moved his goods into the same building, and formed a co-partnership with Simon Page, after which the stock of goods was increased.
The Indians were quite plenty that year and between them and the whites, Warner & Page did considerable business. Blackhawk's youngest daughter purchased her wedding outfit of Mr. Warner, unless she lied about it, which is not at all probable of an Indian. Page sold out to Warner the next year, and when last heard from was living in California. Mr. Warner did not replenish his stock, and soon commenced farming.
Jabez Warner and family were a great acquisition to the town, and there has not been an event of any importance in the history of Prophetstown in which their influence has not been felt. Mr. Warner brought the rest of his family early in 1838. He boarded in 1837 with his brother, John S. Warner, who came in June of that year, and was the first white man with a family that settled on the present village plot. John S. Warner afterwards attempted to take out a pre-emption, but, as a town had been laid out on the land, it was not granted.
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