William Chase Ware b.1864

WARE, WHEELER, ROW, CHARLES, NICHOLS BARTON, LOSEY

Posted By: Volunteer: B. Evans
Date: 2/27/2014 at 16:19:50

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obit Book C, page 258, Keosauqua Public Library; Keosauqua, IA

WILLIAM CHASE WARE

(Larned, Kansas, Leader)
William Chase Ware, 72, former country clerk and state representative from Pawnee county, and one of the county’s most respected citizens, died at his home, 302 West Fifth Street, Larned, Kansas, at 6:30 a.m. Friday, April 15. Mr. Ware suffered a paralytic stoke Wednesday night, and he regained consciousness for only short periods before his death.

He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Ware of the English colony of Big Mound, and a brother of the late Berry Ware, author of a history of the English colony.

He graduated from Howe’s academy in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and came to Kansas as a young man. He taught school in Pawnee and Edwards counties, at one time teaching the Riverside school in this county. Later he entered the farming industry and lived near Fellsburg. After a few years he acquired land southwest of Larned near the Hamburg siding and returned to Pawnee county to live.

Mr. Ware had lived in Pawnee county more than fifty years, coming here from Big Mound, Iowa, where he was born Nov. 19, 1864. He was a school teacher and farmer for many years in addition to the public offices he held.

Mr. Ware married Miss Clara Wheeler, a fellow Pawnee county teacher in 1890, and for a year they both continued their teaching. Four children were born to them, the late Mrs. A.A. Row, Mrs. W.W. Charles of Larned, a son, John E., who died as a child, and a son, Glenn, of Corvalis, Oregon.

In 1901 Mrs. Ware died, leaving her husband with the care of four small children, the eldest nine years of age. For many years he served as both father and mother for the children, and they also became well-known citizens of the county.

Mr. Ware was elected county clerk in 1911, and at that time he moved to Larned, although he continued his farming interests. He served three terms as county clerk. In 1912 he suffered a severe attack of typhoid fever.

On Jan. 14, 1915, Mr. Ware married Mrs. Etta Nichols of Larned. They have one daughter, Frances, a senior at the University of Kansas.

He was a quiet studious man, and although always identified with public affairs, it was without a trace of ostentatiousness. He was reserved in his opinions and judgments, but as one of his friends said this morning, “When Chase Ware told you anything you could count on its being the truth.”

When Mr. Ware left the county clerk’s office after his third term, he did not engage in active business, dealt some in real estate and continued with his farming. In 1927 he was elected to the state legislature on the Republican ticket in this county.

In addition to his wife, and the three children mentioned above, Mr. Ware is survived by one sister, Mrs. Alice Barton of Milton, Iowa, eight grandchildren and two nephews, Eugene F. Ware of Hutchinson, Kansas, and Ewing Ware of Garfield, Kansas, and a niece, Mrs. Amelia Losey of Garfield.

Miss Blanche Barton of Milton attended the funeral and remained several days for a visit with relatives.

[NOTE: Handwritten at the top of the obituary is 1937.]