A. N. Ware Biography

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	Ogle & Co., Chicago, 1898. Pages 457-458

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A. N. WARE. -Among the many thrifty and enterprising farmers who find adequate 
remuneration for their labor expended in cultivating the fertile soil of 
Brookings county, none is more intelligent and industrious than the gentleman of 
whom this brief sketch is written.  His home is situated in section 11, Volga 
township.

Mr. Ware was born near Greenfield, Ross county, Ohio, April 29, 1851, where he 
attended the district school until sixteen years of age, and then spent two 
years in the academy at South Salem.  He then spent his remaining minor years on 
his father's farm, and then went to Jordan, Minnesota, and worked for his uncle.  
The following summer he went to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he attended the 
business college for six months and then began working at the carpenter's trade.  
In July, 1873, he went to Rosemont township, Dakota county, and worked through 
harvest, up to September 3, and then went to Waverly, Iowa, for three weeks and 
formed a party of two families and two young men, started for Texas. with teams 
and wagons.  After seven weeks of continuous travel they arrived at Waco, and 
remained in that vicinity until August 1874, and then returned to his old home 
in Gteenfield, Ohio, and worked for a time in his father's store at Harper's 
Station.  He then engaged in the mercantile business and farming until the 
spring of 1878, when he and two of his brothers went to Brookings county, South 
Dakota, and each settled on a quarter section of land. Mr. Ware is still 
residing on his original homestead, which is now well improved and in a fine 
state of cultivation and is well stocked with horses, cattle and hogs.  Mr. Ware 
makes corn his principal crop, and thinks it the most profitable product for 
that section of the state.

Mr. Ware's father, John Ware, was born in Lindon, Ohio, September 10, 1823; and 
his mother was born in Ohio, June 5, 1828, and died in October, 1878.  Our 
subject was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Kate Bandy, daughter of Thomas 
and Elizabeth Bandy  Mrs. Ware was born February 26, 1862. To this congenial 
union have been born two children: George A. and Elizabeth Florence.  Mr. and 
Mrs. Ware are members of the Presbyterian church. In politics Mr. Ware is a 
Prohibitionist, and is a man of the very highest character1 thorough and 
systematic as a farmer, pleasant to meet, and is held in high esteem by all with 
whom he comes in contact.  He has an excellent farm, a comfortable and 
commodious home, and has a genial and intelligent family.