Dudley P. Warner and Margaret Shaffer

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Husband Dudley P. Warner ¹

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           Born: 1 Oct 1893 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA 1
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         Father: Malcolm L. Warner (Abt 1861-1939) 1
         Mother: Mary Alma "Mamie" Williams (Abt 1865-      ) 1

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       Marriage: 1917 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA 2

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Wife Margaret Shaffer ²

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         Father: Abram Shaffer (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Emily Stewart (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 F Margaret Warner ²

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           Born: 1918 2
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2 M Dudley P. Warner, Jr. ²

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           Born: 1920 2
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3 M David W. Warner ²

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           Born: 1922 2
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         Status: Twin

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4 M Edmund M. Warner ²

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           Born: 1922 2
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         Status: Twin

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5 F Earla Ann Warner ²

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           Born: 1934 2
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General Notes: Husband - Dudley P. Warner

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He started his business career in 1910 in the engineering department of the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company in Franklin, Pennsylvania. In 1913 he became an engineer for the American Steel Foundries Company of Franklin, remaining here for one year, when he be­came associated with the Colburn Machine Tool Com­pany, also in Franklin, in a similar capacity. He remained with the Colburn company until the outbreak of the First World War, and at that time returned to the American Steel Foundries Company for the duration of the war. After the war, he worked in steel plants in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh until 1921, when he went into the contract­ing and building business for himself in Franklin. From 1922 to 1925 he was engaged as maintenance engineer and superintendent for the Duquesne Steel Foundry in Cora­polis, Pennsylvania. In 1924 Mr. Warner returned to the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company, in Franklin, remain­ing there for two years. In 1926 he came to Sharon, Pennsylvania, as works maintenance engineer for the Sharon Foundry Company and, after a short time was promoted to vice-president, serving as such until the company was purchased by the Pittsburgh Steel Foundry Corporation. He was employed by them as sales engineer and remained until 1932.
In 1932 Dudley P. Warner and Walter K. Smith formed a partnership and established a motor-freight line under the firm name of Warner & Smith, Motor Freight, in Sharpsville. In 1934 Mr. Warner bought out his part­ner's interest in the firm and became the sole owner, but retained the firm's old name. In 1938 he built one of the most modern of freight terminals in Pennsylvania. They had inter-State operations with branch offices in the following cities: Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Oil City, Canton, Akron, Youngstown, Erie and Warren. Forty people were employed and they had thirty-two modern trucking units. Mr. Warner was a member of the Sharpsville Service Club, the Sharon Chamber of Commerce, of which he was chair­man and director of the Traffic Safety Council; director of the Shenango Valley Safety Council; member of the Board of Education of Sharpsville; member of the Ameri­can Trucking Association and the Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association, of which he was State director, and president of the Mercer County chapter for three years. He was also a member of the Ohio Highway Haulers Asso­ciation and the Traffic and Transportation Association of Pittsburgh.
He was a Republican in his political allegiance, and fraternally was affiliated with the Blue Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He was a Presbyterian in his religious faith.

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General Notes: Wife - Margaret Shaffer

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from Franklin, Venango Co, PA

1 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 256.

2 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 257.