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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.

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