Bios: WARREN R. CLIFTON: Lawrence County, Pennsylvania

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  Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens
  Lawrence County Pennsylvania
  Biographical Publishing Company, Buffalo, N.Y., 1897
  
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    WARREN R. CLIFTON,
    
    [p. 324] chemist for the Shenango Valley Steel Co., was born in New Castle,
  Jan. 22, 1868, and is a son of Warren Clifton and grandson of Joseph H.
  Clifton. Our subject's grandfather was born in Boston, where he was reared
  and educated, and where he lived until after his marriage, working in the
  woolen mills. When he came to New Castle, he built a mill, and engaged in the
  manufacture of woolen goods; after several years he sold his milling property,
  and moved the machinery to Weston, West Virginia, where he again bought land
  and water-power, and erected a mill, and once more engaged in the same
  business, following it the remainder of his life. He also devoted no small
  attention to sheep-raising. He died at the age of seventy-nine years. His
  wife, Hannah Brown of Boston, lived to be seventy-four years old. They reared
  seven children in order and name as follows: Joseph; Warren; Frank; Richard;
  Ella; Ann (Barrett); and Abbie (Hershman).
    
    Warren Clifton, father of Warren R., was born in Boston, Mass., but his
  boyhood days were spent in New Castle. He married, soon after becoming of
  age, Susanna Cartright, daughter of Lemuel Cartright of Edenburg, Pa. He
  followed the same business as his father, and was associated with him until
  the time of his death. In 1876, he moved to Pittsburg, where he lived a few
  years, and then went to New Castle, which he made his home for two years. He
  then returned to Pittsburg, where he lives now at the age of fifty-three
  years. His wife was taken to the home prepared on high when forty-eight years
  of age. He is a natural mechanic, and since his sojourn in Pittsburg has been
  engaged in that branch of industry. There were born to him the following
  children: Katie (Browning); Warren R.; Minnie (Connolly); and Floyd I.
    
    Warren R. Clifton was educated in the Pittsburg grammar and high schools,
  and studied chemistry at a select school for chemists in Pittsburg. After
  finishing the preparation for his profession, and having acquired skill and
  address at it, he engaged as chemist, in 1886, with the Isabella Furnace Co.
  of Sharpsburg, Pa., with whom he spent one year. From 1887 till 1890, he was
  with the Oliver Iron & Steel Co. of Pittsburg, Pa., and since then has been
  in the employ of the Shenango Valley Steel Co. of New Castle.
    
    Our subject sought and won the hand of Ellen M. Walter, daughter of John W.
  Walter, in marriage, and they have one child, Josephine H. In his political
  affiliations, he is known as an ardent Republican. Socially he is a member of
  Mahoning Lodge, No. 243, F. & A. M.