Edward Allen Warren was born in Greene County, Alabama, on May 2, 1818, to Robert H. Warren and Lydia A. Minter Warren. He received his early education there, and then studied law on his own. He married in October 1838, and he and his wife, Mary Elizabeth Warren, went on to have two children.[2] In 1843, he was admitted to the bar and he began his practice in Clinton, Mississippi.
After his years of government service, Warren devoted the rest of life to his family and to his law practice. On July 2, 1875, Warren died at the residence of his son; E.A. Warren, Jr., in Prescott, Nevada County, Arkansas,[3] and was interred in Moscow Church.
Legacy
In 1876, Warren's son, E.A. Warren Jr., opened 'The Prescott Dispatch' in Prescott,[4] and became Prescott's Mayor in 1881.[5]