WARE, Dr. Jesse Cornfield 1813 - 1879

WARE

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 3/3/2011 at 16:05:01

"The Fairfield (Ia.) Daily Ledger"
Wednesday, March 5, 1879
Page 3, Column 7

Dr. J. C. WARE, whose serious illness was reported in last week's Ledger, died at his home in this city Wednesday night (Feb. 26th), in the 67th year of his age. By his death Fairfield lost one of its oldest citizens, and the pioneer physician of this county. He was born near Blairsville, Penna., graduated at Oxford, Ohio, college in 1831; read medicine in that state; and afterwards removed to Iowa, finally locating at Fairfield in 1840, where he has resided ever since.... When he first visited Fairfield, there were about half a dozen families located on what is now the town site, and of those Mrs. Ellis Woods and Mrs. Gage are the only ones now living. His practice took him over the county when it was without roads or bridges, and for a long time he was the family physician of Keokuk, the Indian chief, and was government physician at the Indian agency in Wapello county.... He was married to Miss Jennie WARE, a cousin, who survives him, in 1838, and one child was born to them who died in infancy. Humane and generous as he was, several children found a pleasant home in his family and five of them he has educated and started in life.... The funeral Friday was largely attended and the old citizens of Fairfield were out in large numbers.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I am not related to the person(s) mentioned.

Note: Buried at Evergreen Cemetery, Fairfield, Lot Old.P.233, with wife Jane who died in 1883.