Francis E. Warren's first job in his new town was working as a clerk in a crockery and hardware store owned by a fellow Massachusetts native, A.R. Converse, for whom Converse County was later named. He later became Converse's partner and then bought the business in 1877, renaming it Warren Mercantile Company.
In the fall of 1883, he formed the Warren Livestock Company, a large sheep and cattle operation that eventually grew yo 150,000 acres He also owned the Cheyenne and Northern Railroad and the Brush-Swan Electric Company, which brought the first electricity to Cheyenne.
Wikipedia also lists real estate as a way Warren made money.
He was also responsible for many of the public and private buildings in Cheyenne.
In 1871, he married Helen M. Smith of Massachusetts and the couple had two children Frances and Frederick. His wife died in 1802, and Warren then married his second wife, Clara LeNaron Morgan on June 28, 1911 at age 67.
Helen is buried at Lakeview Cemetery in Cheyenne. Clara remarried Albert Wells Russel and is buried at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio.
--Old Secesh
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