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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.

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