Joseph Addison Warren, Sr.

He received his early education at a private school in Worcester, Mass. and after that learned teh organ makers trade at the Estey Organ Company at Brattleboro, Vermont starting there about 1865. In 1870 he came to Detroit, Michigan to work in the Simmons & Clough Organ Company in that city. In 1872 he became a junior partenr in the business and in 1874 his brother George P. Warren purchased an interest in the same company and the firms name was changed to the Clough & Warren Organ Co. The company became one of the best known names in the industry making reed organs, pipe organs and pianos. In 1898 Joseph became the sole owner of the business and in 1899 the factory burned and the Company moved to Adrian, Michigan, where it continued business until 1923. He died 13 June 1918 and is buried in Detroit at Woodmere CEmetary (Section H Lot 22). He was a member of the Baptist Church.