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Willard Warner
Willard Warner
Willard Warner
(1826-1906) was an industrialist who served
Alabama
in the
House of Representatives
and the U.S. Senate during the
Reconstruction era
. He contributed to the growth of Alabama's iron industry in 1874 when he founded the Tecumseh Iron Company and built an iron furnace and
company town
in
Cherokee County
.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress