Bio of Robert Leslie WARE (b.1866), Ramsey Co., MN
(Partial Bio)

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ROBERT LESLIE WARE.
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Robert Leslie Ware is president of the National Investment Company, of 
St. Paul. Mr. Ware was born in May, 1866, at Bridgeton, New Jersey, the 
son of Edwin M. and Lucy Topman Ware. Robert Leslie began his education 
in the public schools of Bridgeton, and completed it in the South Jersey 
Institute, of that city. His first idea with regard to a career was in 
the line of mechanical engineering, and with that object in view he spent 
three years in the Farricut Machine Works of Bridgeton, getting a practical 
knowledge of the business. His eyes began to fail him, however, and he was 
obliged to give up his plans, and went to Philadelphia, where he entered 
the employ of E. J. Crippen, who was engaged in the grocery business. In 
1886 he decided to come West, and on June eighteenth he arrived in St. 
Paul. During the first two years of his residence in this state he was 
employed as bookkeeper by W. J. Dyer & Bro., by the Houpt Lumber Company 
and by the St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company. He was ambitious, 
however, to engage in business for himself, and in 1888 he started out 
in the mortgage loan business. He also represented several Eastern 
insurance companies, and was secretary of two building associations. In 
1890 his father came West and joined him in business, under the firm name 
of E. M. & R. L. Ware, which association was continued until