WARREN, JOSEPH

(1741-1775), an American patriot, b.” in Roxbury. Ma . He graduated from Harvard University, in 1759, studied medicine and worked up an extensive practice in Boston. Here he became one of the leaders in the movement against the English Government, being president of the Ma achusetts congre , in 1774 and chairman of the Committee of Public, Safety. It was he who sent Paul Revere on his famous ride to warn Hancock and Adams, in Concord, that a force of British soldiers had set out to arrest them and to destroy the stores the patriots had accumulated at that int. When actual hostilities began, arren, with the rank of brigadier general, participated in the Battle of Bunker Hill, where he was killed in the fighting.