WARE, Edward

WARE, LAMB

Posted By: Mike Kearney (email)
Date: 8/27/2004 at 11:59:46

From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) Pages 669-697 Biographical Sketches of Clinton Residents EDWARD WARE, with C. Lamb & Son; is a native of England, and was born June 13, 1830; he came to America in 1842, and was brought up in York State; he came to Fulton in 1854, and came to Clinton Co. in 1855 ; he was engineer of the first saw-mill in Clinton; when the war broke out, he enlisted, in June, 1861, in the 1st I. V. C., Co. M; he remained in the service until March, 1866; he was promoted to hold commission of Second Lieutenant when the war closed; since then, he has been engaged in steamboating and in the lumber-yard of C. Lamb & Sons. He married Miss Augusta Lamb, daughter of C. Lamb, Esq., in 1859; they have six children-Fred, Jennie, Willie, Lettie, Eddie, and Artemus.