At about age three, his family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was educated at the Athenaeum, a Roman Catholic college in the city.
He resigned that position April 1852,[2] and was named reporter of the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio that year.
[1] In December, 1854, John A. Corwin resigned as judge on the Ohio Supreme Court, and Governor Medill named Warden to fill the seat.
[4] Warden returned to private practice in Ohio, where one author characterized him : "He was a man of exceptional ability, but did not possess the power to use it to the best advantage.
"[1] In January, 1873, Warden moved to Washington, D. C., where he was employed at the request of Salmon P. Chase to write a biography of him.