Melvin Owen Warns
Biography
Born in Toledo, Ohio. Graduated from Columbia University and New York University. Married to Charmaine. Served during the Second World War.
Founding member of the Society of Paper Money Collectors (SPMC). He collected notes from banks with charter numbers one to one hundred.
Author of The Nevada "Sixteen" National Banks and their Mining Camps (1974).
Source credit: Pete Smith, American Numismatic Biographies