S D Warren

Samuel Dennis Warren I

  • American

The S D Warren Company was one of the earliest and most successful producers of wood pulp paper in the State of Maine. Warren was the first to recognize the benefits of slow and sustained growth in advance of the rest of the industry. Warren recognized at an early date that the future of the industry lay in rapid transition from rag pulp to wood pulp. The Warren Company was the first in Maine to experiment with soda pulp; doing so as early as 1875. - NRHP, 2 May 1974

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Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
1817/09/13 Samuel Dennis Warren is born at Grafton, Massachusetts. Born
1830/00/00 Sam Warren receives his early education at a Quaker school in Groton, and later an academy in Amherst. Education University of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst, MA
1833/00/00 At age 15, Samuel Warren begins working for his uncle's firm, Grant and Daniell, Boston paper dealers. Work
1854/00/00 Warren and Daniell buy a mill and its water privilege at Congin Falls for $28,000. This town will later be called Westbrook. Producing paper with the pulp extracted from beating down rags, the mill manufactures about 3,000 pounds year. Work Cumberland Mills Historic District Westbrook, ME
1867/00/00 Having bought out Daniell, Warren changes the name to the S D Warren Paper Mill Company. Work Cumberland Mills Historic District Westbrook, ME
1869/00/00 S D Warren provides half the money to build the Warren Congregational Church, of which he was a member. Warren built the parsonage in 1887 and is also instrumental in school construction. Benefactor Cumberland Mills Historic District Westbrook, ME
1870/00/00 Early on, S D Warren had realizes that wood pulp instead of rag pulp should be used in the manufacturing of paper and had been experimenting. Inventor Cumberland Mills Historic District Westbrook, ME
1874/00/00 G W Hammond and S D Warren buy the Yarmouth Paper Co and renamed it the Forest Paper Co (lost). Warren has seen that rag pulp is replacing wood pulp in paper making and has been experimenting. Owner Yarmouth, ME Maine
1882/00/00 The Warren Block is built for Samuel D Warren, owner of the Warren Paper Mill, as a service to the mill community with a meeting hall and offices. Owner Warren Block, Westbrook, ME Westbrook, ME
1883/00/00 S D Warren testifies before a Senate Labor Committee that his firm owns 150 houses with rents from $75 to $200 a year. Electricity is provided in some at $35 a year, water cost $10. Work Cumberland Mills Historic District Westbrook, ME
1888/00/00 Samuel Dennis Warren dies. The outpouring of sentiment at his death is quite obviously genuine on the part of Westbrook residents. Died
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