George Bouton Warren (1797-1879)
Bank President, Railroad President & State Legislator of Troy, New York
He was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, shortly before his family relocated to Troy, New York. He became a partner in the dry goods firm of Southwick, Cannon & Warren. He acquired large property interests in Troy and was connected with many of the town's leading enterprises. He was a founding director (1833) and afterwards President of the Troy City Bank (1844-57). He was a director in the Troy Insurance Company, the Troy Gaslight Company, and President of the Rensselaer & Saratoga Railroad Company until his death. He was elected to the State Legislature in 1844 and was an unsuccessful candidate of the Whig party for Congress in 1846. In private he was a nature lover and ornithologist. In 1823, he married Mary Myer Bowers, of Cooperstown, and they had nine children. After her death he married her sister, Emily Bowers.
