Warner Lucien, Manufacturer Chaska Brick and Dealer in Sewing Machines 98 E Third, res 105 E Aurora ave. (St. Paul City Directory 1879-80, R. L. Polk & Co. and A. C. Danser, Publishers, 1879, Page 472)
The 1870 United States census showed Lucian Warner (age 33, born in Massachusetts, merchant) married to Attilia (age 30, born in Massachusetts) and living in Chaska, Minnesota. Children Lily (age 9, born in Massachusetts), Alice (age 7, born in Massachusetts), Arthur (age 6, born in Massachusetts), and Minnie (age 10 months, born in Minnesota) also lived with the couple.
The 1880 United States census showed Lucien Warner (age 43, born in Massachusetts, sewing machines) married to Adelia S. (age 46, born in New York) and living in St. Paul, Minnesota. Children Alice E. (age 17, born in Massachusetts), Arthur C. (age 15, born in Massachusetts), Minnie J. (age 10, born in Minnesota), Grace J. (age 5, born in Minnesota), and Bessie S. (age 2, born in Minnesota) also lived with the couple.
Warner Lucien, 7 Gilfillan block. (St. Paul City Directory 1882-83, R. L. Polk & Co. and A. C. Danser, Page 896)
The 1885 Minnesota census showed L. W. Warner (age 48, born in Massachusetts) living in St. Paul, Minnesota. Children Alice (age 22, born in Massachusetts), Arthur (age 20, born in Massachusetts), Minnie (age 15 born in Massachusetts), Grace (age 9, born in Minnesota), and Bessie (age 7, born in Minnesota) also lived with L. W.
Lucien Warner married Sadie K. Jones on July 28, 1886, in St. Paul, Minnesota.
The 1895 Minnesota census showed Lucien Warner (age 59, born in Massachusetts, real estate) married to Sadie (age 45, born in Kentucky) and living in St. Paul, Minnesota. Daughters Grace (age 20, born in Minnesota) and Bessie S. (age 17, born in Minnesota) also lived with the couple.
The 1900 United States census showed Lucian Warner (age 63, born in February 1837 in Massachusetts, capitalist) living in St. Paul, Minnesota. Children Bessie S. (age 22, born in February 1878 in Minnesota), Lucia C. (age 13, born in May 1887 in Minnesota), and Grace J. (age 25, born in September 1874 in Minnesota) also lived with Lucian.
The 1905 Minnesota census showed Lucien Warner (age 68, born in Massachusetts, real estate) living in St. Paul, Minnesota. A daughter, Lucia C. (age 18, born in Minnesota), also lived with Lucien.
The Valley Herald, a six-column paper, was established in Chaska, Carver county, with the press and material of the Valley Transcript of Carver, which had been discontinued July 23, 1862. Charles A. Warner, afterward state senator from Carver county, was the purchaser, and September 1, 1862, the first number of the Herald was published. Warner was editor and proprietor, and M. C. Russell publisher. Shortly after its start, W. B. Griswold joined Warner as editor and publisher. March 4, 1865, Warner says Griswold had retired, having secured a competence in publishing the paper. Warner then went on alone. Running a mercantile business and a printing establishment, and mixing considerably in politics, kept Warner from sleeping much in the day time. At Volume IV, No. 19, January 13, 1866, the paper was enlarged to seven columns, and on the 27th, Lucian Warner, a brother of Charles A., who had virtually been editor and publisher for about a year, became associated by recognition at the head of the paper. At No. 39 of this volume the paper was sold to F. A. Du Toit, who changed its politics from Republican to Democratic, became editor and proprietor, and has continued its management to the present time. It was the hundred and forty-ninth paper started in Minnesota. Charles A. Warner died in 1867. Lucian succeeded to the mercantile business and to the office of postmaster of Chaska, which, combined, they held for fifteen years. Lucian Warner afterward became extensively interested in the brick business in Chaska. This finally grew to such volume that he changed his residence to St. Paul, where most of his brick marketing was done. He has contributed in no slight degree to the upbuilding of St. Paul. (Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, Volume XII, Published by the Society, St. Paul, MN, December, 1908, Page 239)
Warner, Lucien, b. in Granby, Mass., Feb. 22, 1837; d. in St. Paul, Nov. 20, 1907. He came to Minnesota in 1865; engaged in mercantile business in Chaska, and after 1874 in the manufacture of brick and the erection of buildings, residing in St. Paul. [25; 93*; 237 (48).] (Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, Volume XIV, Minnesota Biographies 1655-1912, Compiled by Warren Upham and Rose Barteau Dunlap, Published by the Society, June, 1912, St. Paul, Minnesota, Page 825)