Charles Bartlett Warring was born on November 15, 1825, in Charlton, New York.

He was a physicist, educator, amateur geologist, and author. He attended Poughkeepsie and Union College (B.A., M.A.). He founded and directed the Poughkeepsie Military Institute, a school for boys. He taught Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and contemporary cosmogony at the Collegiate School in Poughkeepsie. Warring was one of the founders of the Poughkeepsie Society of Natural Sciences which later became the Scientific Section of the Vassar Brothers Institute. He was also a member of the New York Academy of Science and an Associate Member of the Philosophical Society of Great Britain. His most original contribution was a paper of 1887 in which he proposed that the continents drifted apart from a single mass at the beginning of the earth’s history. He published several books, e.g., "Mosaic Account of Creation, the Miracle of Today, or, New Witnesses to the Oneness of Genesis & Science" (1875), "Studies Upon the Inclination of the Earth's Axis" ( 1876?), and "Genesis I and Modern Science" (1892).

In 1851, he married Catharine Anne Lent (1821-1911). He died on July 4, 1907, in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Called by F. Cyril James "one of the wisest of American economists during the period between the two World Wars", Robert B. Warren was the co-author of The State in Society (1939) and of The Search for Financial Security (1940). Born in Plattsburgh, N.Y., on March 15, 1891, he graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton, before going to Harvard. He worked for the Federal Reserve Board of Washington (1922-1926) and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1926-1927) before joining Case, Pomeroy & Co. of New York as economist and vice-president (1928-1938). In 1939, he joined the Institute for Advanced Study of Princeton University and worked also as consultant to the U.S. Treasury between 1942 and 1945. His papers were passed to Cyril James, with a request by the Rockefeller Foundation to write a critical biography of Warren. Pressure of work made it impossible for James to complete the work.