Wayne County Biographies



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Ithamar Warner

Ithamar Warner, native of New England, and for several yearsa physician at Salisbury until after the removal of the county seat from that town, came to Richmond about the year 1820. He was unmarried, and boarded several years with Robert Morrisson. He son acquired an extensive practice, and in time accumulated a handsome fortune, of which, at his decease, he bequeathed the principal part to the town of Richmond. The brick building on North Pearl Street, near the Citizens' Bank, known as the "Warner Building," was a a donation. The citizens have erected an appropriate monument over his grave. He died in March, 1835, aged about 52 years. He was never married.

Source:
History of Wayne County, Indiana, by Andrew W. Young. pub 1872