Ware, Henry – Warner, Alexander
Ware, Henry
clergyman, author, was born April 1, 1764, in Sherburne, Mass. He is a unitarian clergyman of Massachusetts, pastor of Hingham in 1787-1805. His election in the latter year to the Hollis professorship of divinity at Harvard university precipitated the dissensions which ultimately resulted in dividing the congregational body into 'unitarian and trinitarian portions. He was the author of Letters to Trinitarians and Calvinists; and Inquiry into Foundation, Evidences, and Truth of Religion. He died July 12, 1845, in Cambridge, Mass.
Ware, Henry
clergyman, author, was born April 21, 1794, in Hingham, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman of Massachusetts, pastor of the Second church in Boston in 1817-30, and Parkman professor at Harvard university in 1830- 42. He was the author of The Vision of Liberty, an ode; Hints on Extemporaneous Speaking; Discourses on the Offices and Character of Christ; Sermons on Small Sins; On the Formation of Christian Character, which has been very widely read; Life of the Savior; and Lives of Priestley and Noah Worcester. He died Sept. 22, 1843, in Framingham, Mass.
Ware, John
educator, physician, author, was born Dec. 19, 1795, in Hingham, Mass. He was a Boston physician, professor of medicine at Harvard university in 1832-58; and the author of History and Treatment of Delirium Tremens; Hints to Young Men on the Relation of the Sexes; Success in the Medical Profession; and Life of Henry Ware. He died April 29, 1864, in Boston, Mass.
Ware, John Fothergill Water- House
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 31, 1818, in Boston, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman of Baltimore, and subsequently of Boston. He was the author of Wrestling and Waiting; Sermons; War Tracts; The Silent Pastor; and Home Life. He died Feb. 26, 1881, in Milton, Mass.
Ware, Mrs. Katherine Augusta
[RHODES], author, poet, was born in 1797 in Quincy, Mass. She was the wife of a United States naval officer. She published The Power of the Passions, and Other Poems. She died in 1843 in Paris, France.
Ware, Mary
poet, was born in April, 1828, in Madisonville, Tenn. She was the daughter of George Harris, a noted southern lawyer. Mrs. Ware has for nearly half a century contributed to the periodical press, and her poems appear in Poets of America, and other standard collections.
She is a popular poet of Alabama, and prominent in various women's societies of Birmingham, and the state of Alabama. WARE, MRS. MARY GREENE [CHAN- DLER], author, was born May 22, 1818, in Petersham, Mass. She is the author of Elements of Character; Thoughts in My Garden; and Death and Life.
Ware, Nathaniel A
author, was born Aug. 16, 1789, in Abbeville, S. C.
He was a southern writer whose later years were spent in Philadelphia and Cincinnati. He was the author of Views of the Federal Constitution; and Notes on Political Economy. He died in 1854 in Galveston, Texas.
Ware, Nicholas
United States senator, was born in 1769 in Carolina county, Va. He was a senator in congress from Georgia from 1821 to the time of his death. He died Sept. 7, 1824, in New York city.
Ware, William
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 3, 1797, in Hingham, Mass.
He was a unitarian clergyman of New York city in 1821-36, whose historical novels are still popular. He was the author of Letters from Palmyra, republished as Zenobia; Probus, afterward called Aurelian; Julian; American Unitarian Biography (edited); Lectures on the Works of Washington Allston; Sketches of European Capitals; Life of Nathaniel Bacon in Sparks's American Biography; Sermons Illustrative of Unitarian Christianity; and Unitarianism the Doctrine of Matthew's Gospel. He died Feb. 19, 1852, in Cambridge, Mass.
Ware, William Hibbert
poet, was born Dec. 24, 1863, in England. He is the author of an Epic Poem, published in one volume.
Ware, William Robert
educator, author, was born May 27, 1832, in Cambridge, Mass. He is a professor of architecture in Columbia college School of Mines from 1881. He has published Modern Perspective.
Warfield, Benjamin Brecken- Ridge
educator, clergyman, author, was born in 1851 in Kentucky. He is professor of didactic and polemical theology at Princeton Theological seminary from 1887; and is the author of The Divine Origin of the Bible; Introduction to the Textual Criticism of the New Testament; The Canon of the New Testament; and The Gospel of the Incarnation.
Warfield, Mrs. Catherine
ANNE [WARE], author, poet, was born June 6, 1816, in Natchez, Miss. She was a Kentucky novelist who with her sister Eleanor wrote The Wife of Leon, and Other Poems; and The Indian Chamber, and Other Poems. Her own separate writings include, The Household of Bouverie; The Romance of the Green Seal; Miriam Monfort; Hester Howard's Temptation; A Double Wedding; Lady Ernestine; Miriam's Memoirs; Sea and Shore; The Cardinal's Daughter; Ferne Fleming; and The Romance of Beauscincourt. She died May 21, 1877, in Pewee Valley, Ky.
Warfield, Ethelbert Dudley
lawyer, college president, author, was born March 16, 1861, in Lexington, Ky.
Since 1891 he has been president of the Lafayette college. He is the author of The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798; Christian Education; Christopher Columbus; Philip Melancthon; and other books and pamphlets.
Warfield, Henry R
congressman, was born in Anne Arundel county, Md. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1819 to 1825. He died March 18, 1839, in Frederick, Md.
Waring, George Edwin
engineer, author, was born July 4, 1833, in Boundridge, N. Y. He is an eminent sanitary engineer, since 1895 superintendent of the street-cleaning department of New York city; and the author of The Sanitary Drainage of Houses and Towns; A Farmer's Vacation; The Bride of the Rhine; Tyrol and the Skirt of the Alps; Village Improvements; Farm Villages; Elements of Agriculture; Draining for Profit and Draining for Health; Book of the Farm; How to Drain a House; Sewage and Land Drainage; Sanitary Condition of City and Country Dwellings; and Modern Methods of Sewage Disposal.
Warman, Clemmer
educator, clergyman, was born Oct. 17, 1844, near Morgantown, W. Va. He graduated from the West Virginia university, and for eight years taught in the public schools. For a quarter of a century he has been a member of the West Virginia conference of the methodist episcopal church, and now fills a pastorate in Harrisville, W. Va. He has been successful in his work, and a leader in the building of eight churches.
Warman, Cy
journalist, civil engineer, author, was born in 1852 in Illinois. He is a Colorado journalist who was for a time a railway engineer; and the author of Tales of an Engineer, with Rhymes of the Rail.
Warmoth, Henry Clay
soldier, lawyer, congressman, governor, was born in 1842 in Illinois. During the civil war he was brigadier-general of the Missouri state troops. He began the practice of law in New Orleans in 1865, was sent to congress by the republicans; and in 1868 was elected governor ernor of Louisiana. Previously he served as a member of the general assembly; and was elected to the constitutional convention of 1879.
Warner, Adoniram Judson
soldier, merchant, congressman, author, was born Jan. 13, 1834, in Wales, N. Y. He was educated at Beloit, Wis.; and New York Central college.
He was principal of the Lewistown academy, and superintendent of public schools of Mifflin county, and principal of Mercer union schools, Pennsylvania, from 1856 to 1861. He entered the army as captain in a Pennsylvania regiment in 1861, was promoted to lieutenant-colonel and colonel, and brevetted brigadier-general. Heserved through the war, participating in various battles, and was severely wounded at Antietam. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1865, but engaged in other business. He was elected to the forty-sixth and forty-eighth congresses and was re-elected to the forty-ninth congress as a democrat. He is a successful dealer in railroad coal and iron; is president of the Bimetallic union from its formation; and in addition to economic questions he has been a student of geology, archæology and kindred subjects. He is the author of Appreciation in Money; and Source of Value in Money.
Warner, Alexander
soldier, farmer, legislator, banker, was born Jan. 10, 1827, in Smithfield, R. I. He received his education in the Woodstock academy, Connecticut, and at the Wilbraham academy, Massachusetts.
He served as deputy sheriff in Windham county, Conn.; and in 1861 was appointed major of the third regiment Connecticut volunteer infantry; and was next appointed lieutenant-colonel of the thirteenth regiment Connecticut volunteer infantry. After the war he moved to Madison county, Miss.; and was appointed secretary of state by the commanding general; and was also appointed by Secretary Chase as special agent of the treasury department. For six years he was trustee and treasurer of the state university; and for six years and was a member of the state senate; part of the time its president and exofficio lieutenant-governor. For four years he was chairman of the republican state committee; and three times was a delegate to the national republican convention. He then moved to Connecticut, and for two years was state treasurer of Connecticut. In 1888 he moved to Kansas; was elected a member of the house of representatives; and was selected by the members of the house chairman of the committee, that organized and led the attack that broke down the doors, which resulted in regaining possession; and in 1894 he received the re-election.