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McCall, Warner S. print view role Collector dates 1873-1961 city St. Louis state MO other cities Greensboro, GA; Chattanooga, TN; sex M historical notes Warner Sherman McCall was a public-utilities developer who collected both fine and decorative arts including jewelry, Tabriz rugs, cut glass goblets and paintings and included work by Peter Paul Rubens, Jean Francois Millet, Anthony Van Dyck and Sir Thomas Gainsborough (Gimbel Brothers, Sixth Avenue and Thirty-fourth Street, on Oct. 20, 1941). McCall was president of the Central Power and Light Company of St. Louis from its organization until 1925, director of the Franklin-American Trust company. McCall was a member of the New England Historical and Genealogical Society of Boston, the Bankers Club of New York City, and the Racquet, the Noonday, the Sunset Hill, the Missouri Athletic and the Civitan Clubs of St. Louis. He married Jennie Owen Fry (b. 1875) in 1900 and had one son, Theodore Carroll McCall, who was the president of the Gibson Canning Company of Gibson City, IL. decades of activity 1900-1910 1910-1920 1920-1930 1930-1940 updated 11/24/2025 10:11:50 bibliographic search Search Frick Art Reference Library Catalog Search Photoarchive Search Worldcat Search Wikidata Entry Archives/Repository Collection Title Collection Details No known archives at the time of publication see details... «  back