Washington Irving Warrey
Coordinates: 47°9′57.5″N 97°34′38.6″W / 47.165972°N 97.577389°W
Washington Irving Warrey (August 23, 1855 – June 5, 1933) was an American pioneer settler and county official in Steele County in the U.S. state of North Dakota. He operated a hotel in Sherbrooke, North Dakota and served as county judge from 1894 to 1905.
Washington I. Warrey was born in Columbia County, New York, August 25, 1855. He and his younger sister were the only two children born to Robert and Hannah (Carver) Warrey. His father had three children from a previous marriage as did his mother, for a total of eight children. When Warrey was a child, the family moved to Binghamton, New York, where his father worked at contracting and building. Robert Warrey was an architect and designer, and also worked as a carpenter. During the U.S. Civil War, his father was in charge of a force of pontoon and bridge builders.
Robert died when Washington was nine years old, and Washington then went to live on a farm for two years. When his mother died in 1867, he moved in with an uncle, who was appointed his guardian. At the age of 17, he became an apprentice mason, but eventual sought a more liberal education. At age 19, he enrolled in the Delaware Literary Institute at Franklin, New York, where he studied for four years. He studies are frequently interrupted by several terms where he taught school in the village and countryside. Education was a part of his family history, as a number of his mother's relatives had been leading professors in Amherst College and other universities in the east.
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