Abraham "Old Abe" Warner (circa 1814-1896) was an eccentric shop owner in the nineteenth century, in New York and San Francisco.
Abraham Warner was fond of children, animals, art, and his collection of various items.
He was first employed as a butcher in Fulton Market, an later, in 1849, on San Francisco's Long Wharf.
In 1856, Warner bought a restaurant at the foot of Meiggs Wharf and renamed it the Cobweb Palace.
His bedroom upon death contained a cockatoo which had died days before, a Louis XIV bed, and a younger portrait of himself.