Hare, Silas
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 13, 1827, in Ross county, Ohio. He served one year in the war with Mexico as a private. He was chief justice of New Mexico in 1862 under the confederate government; and afterwards served until the war closed as a captain. He settled in Sherman in 1865; was criminal district judge from 1873 till 1876; and was chosen democratic elector for the state at large in 1884. He was elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a democrat.