James S. Warren

James S. Warren was an enterprising and successful business man of rare judgment, fine taste and most engaging qualities. For nearly fifty years he was prominent as a merchant and maintained a high reputation as a conspicuously honorable and successful man. He had a deep, warm nature, quickness and depth of sympathy and kindness for others, and unfailing cheerfulness. Although repeatedly overtaken by sorrow and bereavement in his immediate family, he bore his afflictions with patience and courage, and always imparted strength and cheer to those in need of them. Under a grave exterior he concealed an inexhaustible fund of humor, upon which he drew at the call of his friends, and which was most enjoyable because so unexpected. None of us who have heard his personal experiences and his delineations of character at Twelfth Night celebrations in the old Club House will ever forget his masterly treatment of a humorous subject nor his ability as a raconteur. It has been well said of him that wherever he entered he brought with him a smile. He was a man of the highest integrity; and not only for his record in the business world of New York will he be respected, but for the personal qualities which adorned his life will he be long and affectionately remembered.

Henry E. Howland
1898 Century Association Yearbook