William Smith Warfield (1836 - 1915)

Born 24 Apr 1836 in Uniontown, Belmont, Ohio, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Malvina (Howell) Warfield — married 7 Jun 1859 in Belmont, Ohio

Descendants

Died 9 Sep 1915 at age 79 in Quincy, Adams, Illinois, United States

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William Warfield served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: May 13,1864
Mustered out: September 10, 1864
Side: Union Army
Regiment(s): 170th Ohio Infantry, Company A

Biography

William S. Warfield was born in 1838 in Uniontown, Belmont county, Ohio. He moved in to Quincy Illinois in 1866, where he founded a grocery called Warfield Grocery.

His son was company president for Thompson Taylor Spice in Chicago. William Warfield bought a controlling interest.

Mr. Warfield was himself president of a company: Warfield-Pratt-Howell Grocery of Des Moines Iowa. He also was a director for the State Savings and Trust in Quincy Illinois.

Mr. Warfield bought the streetcar company in Quincy Illinois, rebuilt it and improved it. It then sold to the McKinley system.

According to his obituary in The Quincy Daily Journal, he also had a hand in the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, the Newcomb Hotel, the Empire Theater. He contributed efforts to the running of Blessing hospital and the Woodland Orphanage.

William S. Warfield wed Miss Hortense Pomeroy in Atlantic City New Jersey on 5 April 1911. She was 50 plus years of age at the time.^[1]

William is the great-grandfather of Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr., pilot of the Enola Gay.

William S. Warfield House

The William S. Warfield House is a historic house located at 1624 Maine Street in Quincy, Illinois. The house was built in 1886 for William S. Warfield, who founded the Warfield Grocery Co.; Warfield was one of many prominent Quincy residents to build a large house on Maine Street. Architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee designed the house in a blend of the Richardsonian Romanesque and Queen Anne styles; his design popularized Romanesque architecture, and the blend with Queen Anne in particular, in Quincy. The house features a stone exterior with terra cotta decorations, a massive plan, and a large western porch as well as several smaller porches throughout.

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 21, 1979.^[2]

Obituary

W. S. Warfield, Sr., one of the pioneer wholesale grocers of the middle west, who had heavy interests in two Sioux City jobbing houses which bear his name, died yesterday morning at his home in Quincy, Illinois. At his bedside were Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Warfield Jr., of Sioux City. He had been ill for about ten days. He was 79 years old.

Mr. Warfield was the principal stock holder of the Tolerton & Warfield company and also was heavily interested in the Warfield-Pratt-Howell company, of Sioux City, Des Moines and Cedar Rapids. He owned a large jobbing house and held banking interests in Quincy.

The biography of Mr. Warfield is a history of the development of the wholesale grocery business in the middle west. He founded a grocery jobbing house in Quincy when a young man and expanded the business rapidly until he established branches in a number of Iowa cities. The Warfield-Pratt-Howell company opened a jobbing house in Sioux City a number of years ago.

A short time afterwoard, in 1904, Mr. Warfield purchased the interset of A. I. Stetson in what then was known as the Tolerton & Stetson company, changing the name of the concern to the Tolerton & Warfield company. He placed W. S. Warfield Jr. in charge of the store. The Warfield family since has acquired the control of the company.

Mr. Warfield is survived by a widow and four sons and daughters. The sons and daughters are:

• Mr. Warfield, of Sioux City
• John W. Warfield, of Chicago;
• Mrs. Helen Ruffner, of Denver
• Mrs. Susie Pfeiffer, of Quincy
• Roy M. Warfield, dead
• Mrs. Lydia McMein, dead

Four grandons, Richard Warfield, John M. Warfield, Roy Warfield, and Warfield McMein live in Sioux City. Miss Helen Warfield is a granddaughter.

While Mr. Warfield never established his residence in Sioux City, he was widely known here from frequent visits.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ The Quincy Daily Herald, 5 April 1911, page 3
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_S._Warfield_House
3. ↑ Sioux City Journal, Sioux City, Iowa, 23 Sep 1915, Thu, Page 9

• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M64H-C62 : 11 June 2019), William S Warfield, 1870.

• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXNM-T7X : 22 August 2017), William S Warfield, Quincy, Adams, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district ED 22, sheet 361B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,174.

• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSSS-JZP : accessed 16 November 2019), W S Warfield, Precinct 24 Quincy city Ward 7, Adams, Illinois, United States.

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MK4B-YTD : accessed 16 November 2019), W G Warfield, Quincy Ward 7, Adams, Illinois, United States.

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/174693039

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KZJX-WJL