Ella M. Warren

b. circa 1852, d. February 1913
  • Ella M. Warren was born circa 1852 in New York.
  • Charles C. Papworth and Diana A. Oliver appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Lockport, Niagara County, New York. Other members of the household included Ella M. Warren, Malvina Oliver, Cynthia Richardson and Lyman R. Oliver.
  • Malvina Oliver appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Lockport, New York. Other members of the household included Ella M. Warren, Elisha Oliver and Cynthia Richardson.
  • She was a teacher, according to the 1970 census.
  • The following appeared on 31 July 1908 in The Utica Observer: (San Francisco, Cal.) San Francisco, Cal., July 31.--After four years of expensive litigation Miss Ella M. Warren within ten days will come into possession of a fortune of more than $750,000 left her by the late Bertha M. Dolbeer, a San Francisco society woman, who in 1904 committed suicide by jumping from a window of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York.
         Miss Dolbeer left $10,000 to charity, $135,000 to verious legatees and the remainder of her estate to Miss Warren, who entered the Dolbeer home as a governess at $40 a month and who finally became the companion of the young heiress.
         Adolph Schander, uncle of Miss Dolbeer, tried to break the will, but lost in defending this litigation. Miss Warren was compelled to spend $75,000. The estate has had to pay to the State an inheritance tax of $31,000.
  • Ella M. Warren died in February 1913 in Elmira, Chemung County, New York.
  • The following appeared on 26 February 1913 in The Buffalo Express: (Lockport, Feb. 25) The death of Miss Ella M. Warren at Elmira removes one of Lockport's oldest teachers. She was educated in the Lockport union school and in 1870 was engaged as a teacher in the Clinton street school, which position she held for years. In 188? she became a member of the faculty at Minneapolis, where she gained fame as a tutor in English.
         She returned to Lockport in 1906, having retired, but since then she had taught occasionally on request of the board of education. She removed to Elmira last fall, where she resumed school work in a private academy.
  • Last Edited: 28 Jun 2012