Author: Warren, George Washington
Biography:
WARREN, George Washington (1813-83: ancestry.com)
He was born in Charlestown MA--at the time a municipality, annexed to Boston in 1874--to Isaac Warren, identified only as a prominent and prosperous citizen and a deacon in his church; the name of his mother has not been traced. The family lived close to Bunker Hill, but was apparently not related to Joseph Warren, the hero of the battle fought there in 1775. Warren graduated from Harvard in 1830, studied law, and was called to the bar. He established a practice in Boston and was elected to the state legislature and later (1853-4) to the state Senate. He was married twice, first to Lucy Rogers Newell (1813-49) and then to Georgiana Thompson (1821-88); his second wife and four children survived him. From 1843 to the end of his life he was active among the Masons, and from 1861 until his death he was a municipal court judge in Charlestown. But the two great achievements of his life were probably his being named as the first mayor of Charlestown for four years when it became a city in 1848, and his role in the construction of the Bunker Hill Monument between 1825 and 1843 as a trustee and then as President of the Bunker Hill Monument Association (1847-75). He had a stroke early in 1883 but had recovered and gone back to work in court when he died suddenly in lodgings in Boston; he is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery. (ancestry.com 14 Dec. 2020; 1884 obituary accessed on masonicgenealogy.com; Boston Herald 14 May 1883) HJ