Wallace Harold Warner (1893-1947), who went by his middle name, came to Hollywood in 1901 when he was just a kid; his grandfather George F. Warner (1827-1903), a Minneapolis furniture manufacturer who had made it rich in iron mines and real estate, bought a large plot of land not only for his own retirement but perhaps to cheer up his family: in 1900, Harold’s mother Nellie passed away, followed by his infant brother Earl. So he, his brother Carleton, and their father George Willard “Will” Warner (1858-1903) settled into Grandpa’s new home on Sunset Blvd. Harold Way and Carlton Way were named in 1902. Will Warner married second wife Mary Loretta Basley that same year, but unfortunately he died from sepsis a year later, shortly after his father and just a few months before Loretta gave birth to their daughter Dorothy. Despite the challenges of being raised by his widowed young stepmother, Harold Warner led a fairly normal if short life: marrying, having kids and grandkids, divorcing, and working as a movie studio painter. He died of skin cancer.
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