I have been researching the Warren family of York, NY for several years now for our historical society. Mr. McBride was the business partner of Josiah Warren, proprietor of York Wines, possibly the first successful commercial winery in NYS. Warren and McBride were in partnership by 1866, possibly earlier, in York. Around this time they purchased land for growing grapes in Irondequoit NY on Irondequoit Bay just south of Newport House (see 1872 map of Irondequoit) and formed Warren & McBride, Grapists. In 1873 McBride bought out Mr. Warren and formed the Irondequoit Wine Company. The company switched to producing grape juice during Prohibition. His house at the winery was designed by famed Rochester, NY architect, Claude Bragdon, as was his office at the winery and his home in Florida. These plans are kept in the Bragdon Family Papers at the University of Rochester Library, Rare Books Division. If there are descendants, I would enjoy hearing from them. There may have been a son, Richard.
