Los Angeles-Alameda-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Hare, Alfred Waldron July 23, 1871 - 
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Source: California and Californians, Vol. IV, Published 1932, Page s  107 - 109
Author: The Lewis Publishing Company

     ALFRED WALDRON HARE has proved his ability and resourcefulness in each of 
two professions, the ministry and the law, and has shown in his constructive 
service and his high ethical ideals that there need be no inconsistency in 
following two vocations that might be viewed as somewhat antagonistic in their 
functioning. Mr. Hare is talented and earnest both as a clergyman and as a 
successful member of the Los Angeles bar, and his powers make possible his 
effective service in both capacities. He is pastor of the Park Congregational 
Church, the second oldest church of this denomination in Los Angeles, and in 
the practice of law he is senior member of the firm of Hare & Walden, with 
offices in the Black Building.

     Alfred Waldron Hare was born in New York City, July 23, 1871. He is a son 
of George and Sarah (Hewitt) Hare, both of whom were born in Ireland, Mr. Hare 
of English parentage, and who were young folk when they came to the United 
States. They were married in Brooklyn, New York, and continued their residence 
in the State of New York until 1881. They then came to California and 
established the family home in the City of Oakland, where they remained until 
the spring of 1888, when they removed to Los Angeles, the remainder of their 
lives having been passed in Southern California.

     George Hare was a mere boy at the inception of the Civil war, but his 
youthful patriotism was not to be curbed and found expression by his enlisting 
in the Seventh Connecticut Volunteer Infantry when he was a lad of fifteen 
years. Under a second enlistment he served with the Fifth United States 
Cavalry, and it is a matter of record that he participated in many 
engagements, including a number of major battles, and proved a loyal and 
gallant young soldier of the Union. In later years he perpetuated his 
association with his former comrades by maintaining affiliation with the Grand 
Army of the Republic. The original religious faith of the Hare family was that 
of the Established Church of England, and the parents of George Hare retained 
the faith by becoming communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Church after 
coming to the United States. An uncle of Mr. Hare was a clergyman of the 
Episcopal Church in New York City.

     Alfred W. Hare was a lad of about ten years when the family home was 
established in Oakland, California, and there he profited by the advantages of 
the public schools, as did he later those of Los Angeles. He studied law under 
private preceptorship in both San Francisco and Los Angeles, and in the former 
city his studies were carried forward in the law office of Brewton A. Haynes, 
who, after the passing of about forty-five years, now is in office association 
with Mr. Hare in Los Angeles. Mr. Hare was for some time a student in the 
University of Southern California, and his admission to the bar occurred in 
the year 1912. In 1901 he received the degree of Bachelor of Divinity from the 
Pacific School of Religion, at Berkeley. In his law practice Mr. Hare gives 
major attention to corporation and probate law, in which he has made a record 
of marked success, and his firm controls a large and important law business in 
the metropolis of Southern California. He has membership in the Los Angeles 
County Bar Association and the California State Bar Association, in politics 
he is a Republican, with somewhat independent proclivities, and in each of his 
two professions he finds a medium for giving expression to his broad-minded 
civic loyalty and progressiveness.

     Mr. Hare was ordained a clergyman of the Congregation Church in the year 
1896, and his pastoral service has included that in churches of this 
denomination at Oakland, Fresno and Santa Cruz, as well as Los Angeles, where 
he is now pastor of the Park Congregational Church. He has held this charge 
somewhat more than a decade and has been able to expand greatly both the 
spiritual and material interests of the church. He is a strong and eloquent 
pulpit orator and vigorous church executive, and as the head of one of the 
representative churches in his home city he ranks as one of the leading 
clergymen of Los Angeles — a man whose communal service has been along many 
avenues of usefulness and whose consecrated zeal has been crowned with 
successful service in behalf of humanity. Mr. Hare gives five days each week 
to his law business, but from Friday evening of each week until the following 
Monday morning his time, thought and service are given to his pastoral work. 
His is a deep and abiding human sympathy and tolerance, and each of his 
professional affiliations has tended to broaden both his intellectual and 
spiritual outlooks. He is one of the influential members of the Santa Clara 
Valley Association of Congregational Churches and Ministers, and he has been a 
staunch supporter of the prohibition laws of the state and the nation. In the 
World war period Mr. Hare was instant in patriotic service of communal order, 
was a four-minute speaker in behalf of Government war loans, Red Cross 
service, etc., and was a supporter of the Near East Relief work and other 
humane agencies working during and after the war. He is affiliated with the 
Masonic fraternity and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and in all 
the relations of his earnest and serviceful life he has commanded inviolable 
place in popular confidence, esteem and affection.

     It is interesting to recall that in his student days Mr. Hare was a 
valued member of the old Alliance football team, which played in the first 
intercollegiate football game in Los Angeles, and that among the other members 
of this team at the time were Samuel Haskins, a leading lawyer of Los Angeles, 
where he is president of the California Club, in 1931; W. L. Stewart, 
president of the Union Oil Company of California; and Hon. Curtis D. Wilbur, 
former Secretary of the United States Navy, former chief justice of the 
California Supreme Court, and now judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals in 
this state.

     On the 24th of February, 1903, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Hare to 
Miss Grace Olive Dunsmoor, of Oakland, California. Mrs. Hare is a daughter of 
the late Charles H. Dunsmoor, who was for many years county clerk of Los 
Angeles County and who later served as state bank commissioner. Mrs. Hare was 
graduated in the State Normal School in San Francisco and prior to her 
marriage had been a successful and popular teacher in the Oakland public 
schools. She is a gracious figure in the church, cultural and social circles 
of Los Angeles, is a talented pianist and organist, and is known for her 
earnest zeal in assisting young folk to obtain proper educational advantages. 
At the time of this writing, in 1931, Mrs. Hare is chairman of the scholarship 
committee of the Philanthropic and Civic Club of Los Angeles.

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