From the book History of Walworth County Wisconsin, by Albert Clayton 
Beckwith, publ. 1912 - Page 566
 
ROBERT WELLS WARREN, son of Thomas and Anna, was born at Ludlow, October 15, 
1798; bred to his father's calling of millwright, in which he acquired much 
master's skill; went to Lewis, Essex county, New York, about 1814; married, 
March 19, 1820, Mary, daughter of Seth KNAPP and Martha FULLER, at 
Willsborough, in that county; went about 1823 to Cussewago, Crawford county, 
Pennsylvania, and  thence in 1837 by way of Chicago to Geneva.  Here he came 
into possession of the disputed mill-site and of a large part of the village-
site.  In 1838 he built a gristmill for Mr. GOODSELL, and afterward owned it - 
for many years a valuable property.  In his later life he was used to early-
morning walks, surveying his substantial possessions with quite reasonable 
satisfaction; for he had found them in the rough and had made them shapely.  
He died December 30, 1875.  Mrs. WARREN, born February 22, 1806, died July 27, 
1879.  Of their five children, Seth Knapp, born at Lewis, September, 1823, 
known locally as a photographer and portrait painter, married May 7, 1846, 
Elizabeth, daughter of Col. Harvey CHURCH, and died December 21, 1890.  Juliet 
was married, first, to Simeon GARDNINER; second, to Amos W. STAFFORD.  Seth K. 
WARREN was not of such practical turn of mind as was his father; but preferred 
to let his soul wander farther away than the solar walk, even unto the polar 
regions of the universe, in search of evidence wherewith to confound 
presumptuous speculation on the origin of all being.

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