1879-1959
Adoniram Judson Warlow
Engineer Pennsylvania PA
Adoniram Judson Warlow was born June 28, 1879, in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, to William Warlow, a day laborer from Wales, and Margaret Price Warlow. Besides carrying the name of our missionary focus, Adoniram had brothers named William Carey Warlow and Frances Wayland Warlow.
The 1910 census reveals that he married Mathilde in 1906, was renting a house and was employed as a civil engineer. Episcopal Church records show that he and Mathilde had a son named Ernest Judson Warlow on November 25, 1907 and had him baptized on February 8, 1908.
Adoniram Judson Warlow had at least one other son who shared his name with his uncle, Frances Wayland Warlow, and lived 1909-2002. Frances earned a PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania and was a Fulbright Scholar in France, 1961-62. He taught English at Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, from 1947 until his retirement in 1975. He was a social activist and member of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Carlisle.[1]
Adoniram Judson Warlow registered for the draft in WWI and was described as medium build, tall, black hair, hazel eyes. By 1930, during the Great Depression when jobs were rare, Warlow was living in Harrisburg with two other laborers in a rooming house owned by Elizabeth L. Schlepfer and working for a building contractor. Ten years later he is 60 years old, owns his own house valued at $12,000 in Harrisburg, PA, and is an executive in government work making $5000 per year. Wife, Mathilde, died in 1954.
From his final census in 1950, we learn that Warlow is 70 years old and still working in government construction related to sheet metal. He died in 1959 and is buried in the East Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg, PA.[2] .
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[1] “Dr. Warlow,” The Sentinel (Carlisle, PA), June 29, 2002).
[2] Adoniram Judson Warlow, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127916052/adoniram-judson-warlow