Hiram Warner (1802-1881) Born in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, on
October 29, 1802, Warner was one of ten children born to Mary
Jane Coffin and Obadiah Warner. Warner moved to Georgia in 1822,
when he accepted a teaching position at Sparta Academy in
Hancock County. He married Sarah Abercrombie Staples of Crawford
County, and they had one daughter. Warner began practicing law
in Crawford County after his admission to the bar in 1824 and
later served in the state legislature from 1828 to 1831. In 1832
he participated in the Tariff Convention, during which Georgia's
debate over nullification of the 1828 "tariff of abominations"
took place. Though the convention passed resolutions strongly
denouncing the tariff, which had resulted in a negative impact
on the southern economy, the delegates did not go so far as to
attempt to nullify the law. While serving in the convention,
Warner was elected the first judge of the Coweta Judicial
Circuit, a position he held until 1840. In 1840 Warner returned
to private law pract