Warrant Officer
one of the highest ranks to which seamen under ordinary circumstances can attain. They are divided into three classes-gunners, boatswains, and carpenters, the gunners taking precedence of the other two. Formerly, before ironclads superseded Ho wooden ships, there was only one officer of this rank of each class carried on board even the largest ships. Now, in addition to the officer of each class appointed to carry out the special duties of gunner, boatswain, and carpenter on board every ship, there are usually three or four junior gunners or boatswains appointed to battleships and some of the larger of other classes of ships to perform what are called quarter-deck duties, in addition to which in many of the larger ships an extra gunner or boatswain is appointed for torpedo duties. A certain proportion of these officers who have duly qualified in navigation are now appointed to command torpedo boats.
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Warranty
in law, a promise or covenant by deed, made by the bargainer, for himself and his heirs to warrant or secure the bargainee and his heirs against all men in the enjoyment of an estate or other thing granted. The use of warranties in conveyances has long been superseded by covenants for title, whereby, as the covenanter engages for his executors and administrators, his personal as well as his real assets are answerable for the performance of the covenant. Also, any promise (expressed or implied by law, according to circumstances) from a vendor to a purchaser, that the thing sold is the vendor's to sell, and is good and fit for use, or at least for such use as the purchaser intends to make of it. Warranties in insurance are absolute compliance with which conditions, non-c nonvoids the insurance. When express, these warranties should appear in the policy, but there are certain implied warranties.
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Warren
FRANCIS EMROY, a United States Senator from Wyoming. He was born in Hinsdale, Mass., in 1844, and received an academic education. He served in the Civil War, receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor for gallantry. Following the war, he engaged in farming and stock raising in Massachusetts, until 1868, when he removed to Wyoming. He filled various offices in the Territorial Government, and was mayor of Cheyenne until 1885, when he resigned to be territorial governor. For three terms he was treasurer of Wyoming Territory. In 1890 he was elected first governor of the State of Wyoming. Following his election as United States Senator in the same year, he resigned. He was five times re-elected Senator.
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Warren (Borough of Pennsylvania)
a borough of Pennsylvania, the county-seat of Warren co. It is at the junction of the Allegheny river and of the Conewango Creek, and is on the Pennsylvania and the New York Central railroads. Its industries include oil refining and the manufacture of furniture, iron and steel, chemicals, boilers, gas engines, etc. It has a State Hospital for the Insane, and two public libraries. Pop. (1910) 11,080; (1920) 14,272.
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Warren (City and county-seat)
a city and county-seat of Trumbull co., O.; on the Mahoning river, and on the Baltimore and Ohio, the Pennsylvania, and the Erie railroads; 55 miles S. E. of Cleveland. Here are graded schools, waterworks, street railroad and electric light plants, National and State banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. The city has machine shops, planing, flour, rolling, paint, orator and tube works, and steel, bath and saw mills, boiler, linseed oil, evaptub, electric lamp, an and other factories. Pop. (1910) 11,081; (1920), 27,050.
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Warren (JOSEPH an American patriot)
JOSEPH, an American patriot; born in Roxbury, Mass., June 11, 1741. He was graduated at Harvard College in 1759, studied medicine, and settled in Boston, where he soon acquired an extensive practice. He warmly embraced the cause of the colonies in the lieutenant of Topographical Engineers; controversy with the British Government, and, in 1772, was made a member of the committee of correspondence formed for the purpose of communication with the several towns in Massachusetts. In 1774, he was elected a delegate to the Massachusetts congress, of which he was made president, and also chairman of the committee of public safety. On June 14, 1775, he received a commission as Major-General; and when a majority of the council of war determined to fortify Bunker Hill, he insisted on having a share in the action that would take place. As he was warned by Elbridge Gerry against the hazard of exposing his person: "I know that I may was the answer of Warren, "but where is the man who does not think it glorious and delightful to die for his country?" He was killed at the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. His statue, by Henry Dexter, was unveiled on Bunker Hill, June 17, 1857.
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Warren (MERCY OTIS an American patriot)
MERCY OTIS, an American patriot; born in Barnstable, Mass., Sept. 25, 1728. An ardent patriot, she corresponded with the leaders of the Revvolution, among them Samuel and John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. The "Correspondence of John Adams and Mercy Warren" was published by the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1878. She wrote dramatic and satirical poems against the Royalists (1773-1775), which were included in her volume of "Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous" (1790). She published "A History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution, Interspersed with Biographical, Political, and Moral Observations" (3 vols. 1805). She died in Plymouth, Mass., Oct. 19, 1814.
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Warren (SAMUEL a British novelist born)
SAMUEL, a British novelist; born in Denbighshire, Wales, May 23, 1807. He studied medicine at Edinburgh and law at the Inner Temple, and was called to the bar in 1837. He was made a Queen's Counsel (1851), was Recorder of Hull (1854-1874), represented Midhurst in the Conservative interest (1856-1859), and then he was appointed one of the two Masters of Lunacy. His "Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician" (1832) had been contributed to "Blackwood's Magazine," as also was "Tern Thousand a Year" (1841), the amusing story of "Tittlebat Titmouse." By these he is chiefly remembered; but he published a dozen more works, including "Now and Then" (1847), "The Lily and the Bee" (1851), and several law books. He died in London, July 29, 1877.
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