Barton County, Missouri Biographies-Judge Allen Warden

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri, 1889.  Published by Goodspeed. Pages 959, 960

Judge Allen Warden, public administrator for Barton County, was born in Auburn, New York, 
April 8, 1821, and is the son of Bucklin and Ana (Francisco) Warden, natives of Vermont and 
New Jersey, respectively.  They were married in New York, and here the father followed farming 
and blacksmithing.  He was a lieutenant in the War of 1812, and was of Scotch descent.  He 
passed his last days in New York, as did also the mother, who was of Spanish origin.  They 
were the parents of five children, two sons and three daughters.  The paternal grandfather 
was one of the immortal eighty-three who captured Ticonderoga under Ethan Allen, hence the 
name Allen is a favorite in the Warden family.  While growing to manhood Judge Allen Warden 
acquired an academic education, and, after finishing the same (1842), he went to Lafayette 
County, Wis., where he opened a farm, but soon turned his attention to merchandising and 
milling.  In 1846 he married Miss Lucinda Miller, a native of Indiana, and to them were born 
seven children, five sons and two daughters.  Mr. Warden was the first presiding judge of 
Lafayette County, and that before he was twenty-four years of age.  He was a member of the 
constitutional convention of Wisconsin, in 1848, was presidential elector in 1864, and again 
in 1868, and, when the late war broke out, he used all his eloquence and influence for the 
Union cause.  He raised two companies, and was elected captain of each, but, his family not 
consenting to his going, another led them to the field.  In recognition of the services 
rendered by him, Governor J. T. Lewis tendered him the colonelcy of the Thirty-first Wisconsin 
Infantry, but the consideration that deterred him from becoming captain, also influenced him 
in this matter.  To induce young men to enlist that a draft might not come on the county, he 
got the county to offer $300 bounty to those who would enlist, and, being presiding judge of 
the court, he issued county warrants that soon dropped to a few cents on the dollar, thus 
foreboding financial ruin to the county.  Seeing how the government credit was strengthened 
by issuing United States bonds, he made a personal appeal to the Wisconsin Legislature to 
permit him to issue county bonds and exchange them for warrants.  The result was that the 
bonds kept almost at par, and thus saved the county.  In 1875 Judge Warden came to Barton 
County, Mo., and in 1882 was chosen presiding judge of Barton County Court.  Two years later 
he was made probate judge.  He is a Democrat in politics, and is a Knight Templar in Masonry.

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