William Seymour Warren (1848-1926)

William Seymour Warren was born in Cleveland, Ohio, 10 May 1848, the eldest son of William Warren and Mary Ann Seymour. He spent his entire career from 1866 with the Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Company. He married Fannie Roby Parsons (1855-ca. 1931) in Chicago on 4 January 1883. He died on 12 March 1926. Their children were:

  1. Lucius Parsons Warren, born 7 July 1885 in Chicago, died 8 February 1967, Traverse City, Michigan. Married (1) Elizabeth Huntington of Memphis, Tennessee, on 7 October 1916; (2) Lois Nancy Galbraith (1899-1970) of Grundy Center, Iowa, on 30 October 1930.
  2. Marion Parsons Warren, born 28 December 1886 in Chicago, died in 1924. She attended University School for Girls, Chicago, and Bryn Mawr College. An excellent golfer, she was remembered by Chick Evans from his early days as a caddy:

    I caddied very often for Miss Marion Warren, daughter of W. S. Warren. She had a fine, free swing and played a good iron shot, but she was a poor putter. I thought at one time that she was going to be a great golfer. She was an athletic girl and I am sure that if she had studied the game more she would have made one of the country's finest women players. She is now Mrs. Sanger Steel and lives at Hartsdale, N. Y. [ Chick Evans' Golf Book (1921), p. 79 ]

    She married Sanger Bright Steel (1889-1927) in Chicago on 11 June 1914.

[ Photo: W.S. Warren with grandsons Sanger and William Steel ]

Portraits and Biographies of the Fire Underwriters of the City of Chicago (1895).

William Seymour Warren, Resident Secretary, Chicago Branch of the Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Company.

William Seymour Warren was born in Cleveland, Ohio, May 10th, 1848, and is a son of the late William Warren, who was Resident Secretary from 1875 to the time of his death in November, 1889. Mr. Warren was educated in the high schools of Cincinnati, and entered the Insurance business as an office boy at Chicago, December 3rd, 1866. He was City Manager of the Liverpool & London & Globe at Chicago when his father died, and was appointed, together with Mr. George Crooke, to succeed him. Mr. Crooke withdrew in December, 1892, leaving Mr. Warren sole Secretary. His entire business life, from his school days to the present time, has been devoted to the service of the Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Company.

Mr. Warren was married at Chicago, January 4th, 1883, to Miss Fannie R. Parsons, and has two children, a boy and girl. He is a member of the Union League Club of Chicago.

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