WARE, John M., TX., then St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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JOHN M. WARE, SHUTESTON.--Mr. Ware is a native of Texas, born August 7,
1857.  His parents, Henry V. and Martha A. (Everett) Ware, are natives
of Georgia, where they were reared and married.  The family is of
English extraction on both sides.  Our subject is the youngest of a
family of nine children.  His father removed from Texas to New Orleans
in 1866, having been one of the pioneer settlers of Texas.  Here he
engaged in a brokerage and commission business.  After a few years he
abandoned this and devoted himself to the culture of sugar cane in
Iberville parish, Louisiana.  He owned what is known as the "Belle
Grove" plantation, which contained about twenty-one hundred acres of
land.  He was engaged in sugar culture until 1878, when he sold the
plantation to his two sons, John M. and James A. Ware.  The latter now
owns and operates the plantation.  John M. Ware sold his interest in the
plantation in 1879.  Their father was married twice, his first wife
being the mother of our subject.  She died at Long Beach; Mississippi,
in 1878.  The father now resides at Pass Christian.

The subject of our sketch received good educational advantages, having
attended the Homer College, Louisiana, and the University of East
Tennessee, Knoxville.  He began life for himself, at the age of twenty-
one years, as a planter.  He removed to St. Landry parish, twelve miles
southwest of Opelousas, in 1882, where he bought what is known as the
"Dixon Grove" plantation, which contains nearly one thousand acres of
very fertile land.  Mr. Ware has given considerable attention to stock
raising, and has on his plantation about one hundred and thirty head of
graded cattle, besides horses, mules, etc.  The principal products of
his plantation are cotton and rice.

Mr. Ware commenced the artesian well business in 1887.  He purchased a
steam outfit, and did his first work on "Evergreene" plantation, three
miles below the town of Plaquemine, the first well sunk in Louisiana
above New Orleans.  He has since done work on the Mississippi River, on
the Teche, on Bayou Lafourche and Bayou Cypremort and in St. Landry
parish.  He organized the John M. Ware Well Company, 1889, and they now
take contracts in different sections of the country.  Mr. Ware is a
Democrat in politics.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section,
pp. 88-89.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The
Gulf Publishing Company.