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less vigor. Two terms at the Phillips Andover Academy 

 supplemented for him the winter sessions of the District 

 School, but these gave him all the vocabulary which an 

 earnest, progressive thinker, full of public spirit, found oc- 

 casion to use. His voice was good, — his manner confident 

 but unassuming, and his whole bearing, marked by trans- 

 parent frankness, was such as carries conviction, and had 

 the emphasis that belongs to a strong man. 



Early and late, Mr. Ware urged the establishment of a 

 State Agricultural Experimental Station, and he lived to 

 be a manager of such a school as well as a member of a 

 State Board of Agriculture. He was a Vice-President of 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, of which, in 1865, 

 he became a life member. He was master of the State 

 Grange of Massachusetts for two years, and of Subordinate 

 Grange Number 38, for six years. He was President of 

 the Marblehead and Swampscott Farmers' Club for four 

 years, and for ten years a Trustee of the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College, and for nine years a trustee of the 

 New England Agricultural Society. 



Practical farmer that he was in every fibre, these activ- 

 ities, added to the daily oversight of a well-kept farm, did 

 not exhaust his vital forces. He was for sixteen years on 

 the School Board of his town, and for five years a Trustee 

 of the local Savings Bank. No enterprise which seemed 

 to promise well for human advancement was without its 

 interest for him,— be it good roads,— the planting of shade 

 trees,— the protection of children and dumb creatures 

 against brutality and neglect,— the improvement of crops 

 and live-stock,— or some moral, social, educational or po- 

 litical movement which called for self-sacrifice, intelligence 

 and courage. Popular or not, Mr. Ware could be counted 

 on to stand by his convictions. If he was always the 

 thrifty and sagacious model farmer,— the true son of the 



