Obituary of Rev. Ulysses WARD, 1868: Montgomery County, MD

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Evening Star (Washington, DC), March 31, 1868, p 4:
Death of Rev. Ulysses Ward.
Rev. Ulysses Ward, one of our best known and most enterprising and influential 
citizens, died at 6-1/2 o'clock last evening, at the residence of his son-in-
law, Mr. Samuel Norment, 30 Missouri avenue. Mr. Ward was in the 77th year of 
his age. He has been in ill health for twelve months past, his disease being an 
affection of the kidneys, but was not confined to his bed until Tuesday last.
Mr. Ward was born near Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland, April 3d, 1792, 
his parents, who were natives of London, England, having come to this country 
about 1770. At the homestead, near Rockville, he spent most of his youth. He 
learned bricklaying in Georgetown, and carried on the business there for a 
number of years, one of the first contracts of any magnitude being the houses 
now known as Cox's Row, on 1st street, in that town. Subsequently he carried on 
the business in this city, where he settled, and in a few years thereafter in 
the bricklaying business in the northern part of the Third Ward. For many years 
he was engaged as a lumber dealer, having his yard at the corner of 12th street 
and the canal, which he retired from since years since, passing over his yard to 
his son, J. Beverly Ward.
Since the incorporation of the Mutual Insurance Co. of this city, in 1853, he 
has filled the position of president. He embraced religion when a youth, and 
united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, but when the division on the lay 
delegation question took place in 1827 or '8, he and some of his friends aided 
in forming the Methodist Protestant denomination, in which he for many years has 
been a local minister, attached to the 9th street church in this city. Long 
before temperance associations were formed, and before the question engaged the 
attention of the public, he was an advocate of total abstinence, and when in 
business would keep no man in his employ who used liquor. For about two years he 
was the editor and proprietor of the Columbian Fountain, in which he was 
assisted by his son, Rev. Jas. T. Ward. And in the cause he was a most earnest 
and efficient worker, attached to the Good Samaritan Division, Sons of 
Temperance, from the date of its formation. In the War of 1812 he was a 
volunteer, attached to Peters' artillery, then commanded by Captain Kurtz, with 
Judge Morsell, of Georgetown, as first lieutenant.
For more than 50 years he has resided in the District, and for 42 in this city, 
and his death will be severely felt in the community. By his diligence and 
industry he accumulated property in this city and elsewhere in the amount of 
about $250,000. He was a vice president of the Oldest Inhabitants' Association, 
and a vice president and director of the Washington City Bible Society, and in 
every association with which he was connected, he was regarded with reverence 
and honor. During his illness Dr. Noble Young was his attending physician, and 
was assisted by Drs. F. Howard and Eliot.
The funeral will take place from Mr. Norment's residence at 2:30 o'clock to-
morrow afternoon.
-end-

Source:
Martin Luther King, Jr. Public Library, Washingtoniana Division, Reference Desk, 
Room 307, 901 G Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001.
Transcribed by Diane Bender, July 30, 2002

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