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and protected George Thomson and William Lloyd Garri- 

 son, upon whose views of slavery, then denounced with 

 threats of violence, the Wares looked with favor. In 

 1846 his son Benjamin and he built the Clifton House, 

 which took its name from Hannah Upham Clifton, married 

 to Benjamin Ware that year, and, with a daughter, survi- 

 ving him. It was successfully conducted as a seaside re- 

 sort until it burned down in 1893. 



Benjamin Pond Ware lived to a ripe old age. For 

 nearly his whole life he was exceptionally active in mind 

 and body Growing up as Ijp. did in a family which, with 

 Timothy Pickering, regarded husbandry as " the noblest 

 of pursuits " and like him, in 1820 found the soil of our 

 historic farms "already exhausted and needing manures," 

 — there was little to be known of Essex County farming 

 which Mr. Ware did not know. It was his fortune to live 

 in a day when old systems were making way for new 

 scientific methods and larger mechanical aids and better 

 facilities for brain-work in the craft which makes two 

 blades of grass grow where one grew before. Denser pop- 

 ulations to be fed and increased land-values which must 

 yield an income were calling for a more productive hus- 

 bandry. For a century the French had taught in their 

 schools the art and science of tilling the soil by systematic 

 methods. Mr. Ware was a true son of the Puritan in his 

 reverence for tradition, but his mind was hospitably open 

 to new methods. Nobody was before him in the use of 

 the silo, and, at the close of his active career, a tour of 

 Europe afforded new views of the ancient methods there 

 pursued which he made haste to share with the brethren 

 of his craft. He was an effective public speaker and 

 writer, and the " Massachusetts Ploughman " furnished 

 him throughout his life with a medium for reaching others 

 which his scanty schooling would have closed to a man of 



