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Ephraim Quinby founded Warren in 1798 on 441 acres he bought from the Connecticut Land Company in the Connecticut Western Reserve, and named it for the town's surveyor, Moses Warren. It was the seat of the Western Reserve and became the seat of Trumbull County in 1801. In 1833 it had county buildings, two printing offices, a bank, five stores and about 600 people, and by 1846 nearly 1,600 people, with five churches, twenty stores, three newspapers, a wool factory and two flour mills. A fire in June 1846 destroyed buildings on one side of the town square, which were soon replaced. The songwriter Stephen Foster lived briefly in Warren with his wife, Jane McDowell, and their daughter, Marion.

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By 1888 four railroads served the town, and its factories made linseed oil, furniture, barrel staves, wool cloth, blinds, light bulbs, carriages and automobiles. The leading companies were Packard Electric and the Packard Motor Car Company, both founded in Warren in the 1890s by the brothers James Ward Packard and William Doud Packard, and Warren was the first town in the United States to have electric street lighting, supplied by Packard Electric. Construction of the Trumbull County Courthouse began on Thanksgiving Day, 1895. In the late 19th and 20th centuries steel became a major industry in the area, drawing on nearby coal and iron ore. Sources Wikipedia: Warren, Ohio