Warren Wells Sizer and family were residents of Illinois at least as early as 1868. The family moved to Las Animas, Colorado about 1874. In 1884 they moved again, this time to Wichita, Kansas. Warren and his son Ira worked as farmers and lived at 1537 Strong Street (Wichita City Directory - 1891). In 1891 Warren W. Sizer left Wichita and moved his family to Harbert, Michigan. There they lived in an old farm house at Birchwood Beach Resort.