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===Etymology=== The county was named for [[Joseph Warren]], a physician, [[Founding Fathers of the United States|Founding Father of the United States]], and [[major general]] in the [[American Revolutionary War]] who died after volunteering to fight as a [[Private (rank)|private]] at the [[Battle of Bunker Hill]].<ref name=Hutchinson>Hutchinson, Viola L. [http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/356/nj_place_names_origin.pdf#page=32 ''The Origin of New Jersey Place Names''] {{webarchive|url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20150923192015/http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/356/nj_place_names_origin.pdf |date=September 23, 2015 }}, New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed October 30, 2017.</ref><ref>[http://warren.nj.us/about.html About Warren County...Past and Present] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023102346/http://warren.nj.us/About.html |date=October 23, 2013}}, Warren County, New Jersey. Accessed October 7, 2013. "The county was named in honor of Dr. Joseph Warren who, although he had no known association with the area, earned a heroic reputation throughout the original 13 states for his devotion to the revolutionary cause, which led to his death in the battle of Bunker Hill."</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Spigna |first=Christian Di |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8AOOEAAAQBAJ |title=Founding Martyr: The Life and Death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's Lost Hero |date=August 14, 2018 |publisher=Crown |isbn=978-0-553-41932-0 |language=en}}</ref>
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