Editing Warren, Ohio (section)

==History==
[[File:Harriet Taylor Upton House - Warren.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Harriet Taylor Upton House]] was the residence of suffragett [[Harriet Taylor Upton]] and headquarters of the [[National American Woman's Suffrage Association]].]]
Ephraim Quinby founded Warren in 1798, on {{convert|441|acre|km2}} of land that he purchased from the [[Connecticut Land Company]], as part of the [[Connecticut Western Reserve]]. Quinby named the town for the town's surveyor, Moses Warren. The town was the county seat of the Western Reserve, then became the Trumbull County seat in 1801.<ref>[http://www.warren.org/earlyhistory.htm About Warren: "Early History"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210155800/http://www.warren.org/earlyhistory.htm |date=February 10, 2009 }}, City of Warren, Ohio</ref> In 1833, Warren contained county buildings, two printing offices, a bank, five mercantile stores, and about 600 inhabitants.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_dt48AAAAYAAJ |title=The Ohio Gazetteer, or, a Topographical Dictionary |publisher=Scott and Wright |date=1833 |access-date=December 12, 2013 |last=Kilbourn |first=John |pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_dt48AAAAYAAJ/page/n504 468]}}</ref>

Warren had a population of nearly 1,600 people in 1846. In that same year, the town had five churches, twenty stores, three newspaper offices, one bank, one wool factory and two flourmills.{{citation needed|date=October 2021}} In June 1846, a fire destroyed several buildings on one side of the town square, but residents soon replaced them with new stores and other businesses.{{citation needed|date=October 2021}} Warren became an important center of trade for farmers living in the surrounding countryside during this period. Songwriter [[Stephen Foster]], his wife Jane McDowell, and their daughter Marion lived briefly in Warren.{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}

During the latter decades of the nineteenth century and throughout the twentieth century, Warren remained an important trading and manufacturing center. By 1888, four railroads connected the community with other parts of Ohio. In that same year, there were five newspaper offices, seven churches, three banks and numerous manufacturing firms in Warren. The businesses manufactured a wide variety of products including linseed oil, furniture, barrel staves, wool fabric, blinds, incandescent bulbs, automobiles and carriages; however, the leading companies were the [[Delphi Corporation|Packard Electric Company]] and [[Packard Motor Car Company]], both founded in the 1890s in Warren by brothers [[James Ward Packard]] and [[William Doud Packard]].<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite journal |title=Packard, a history of the motor car and the company |edition=General |editor-first=Beverly Rae |editor-last=Kimes |year=1978 |journal=Automobile Quarterly|isbn=0-915038-11-0}}</ref> Warren was the first town in the U.S. to have an electric street illumination, provided by Packard Electric.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> Warren's population was 5,973 people in 1890. Construction began on the Trumbull County Courthouse in downtown Warren on Thanksgiving Day, 1895.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.co.trumbull.oh.us/tccourthouse.htm |title=Trumbull County Courthouse |publisher=Trumbull County, Ohio |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929123039/http://www.co.trumbull.oh.us/tccourthouse.htm |archive-date=September 29, 2011 |access-date=July 7, 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Warren continued to grow in the twentieth century. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, steel production was a major industry in the county because of large deposits of coal and iron ore in surrounding counties. In recent years, many Warren residents have worked in local service and retail sales businesses. In 2000, Warren was Trumbull County's most populated community, with 46,832 residents. Many examples of late 19th and early 20th century architectural styles still stand in downtown Warren, including the Trumbull County Courthouse, which contains one of the largest courtrooms in the state of Ohio, and the Trumbull County Carnegie Law Library; in addition to office buildings, banks, stores, and homes surrounding the Courthouse Square area.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.co.trumbull.oh.us/tclaw.htm |title=Trumbull County Carnegie Law Library |publisher=Trumbull County, Ohio |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720123842/http://www.co.trumbull.oh.us/tclaw.htm |archive-date=July 20, 2011 |access-date=July 7, 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[John Ashbery]] mentions Warren in his poem 'Pyrography', first published in an exhibition catalogue in 1976 and included in his 1977 collection ''Houseboat Days''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ashbery|first=John|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3072462|title=Houseboat days: poems|publisher=|others=Williamson, Mel; Copland, Aaron|year=1977|isbn=0-670-38035-0|location=New York|pages=8|oclc=3072462}}</ref> In a later interview, Ashbery said he had never visited the town.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ashbery |first=John|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52896750|title=John Ashbery in conversation with Mark Ford.|date=2003|publisher=Between the Lines|others=Ford, Mark, 1962 June 24-|isbn=1-903291-12-7|location=London|pages=59|oclc=52896750}}</ref>