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NAME WARDER 1190 WARE familiar to old New Yorkers. His pastoral opera, "Flora or the Gypsy's Frolic," had sev- eral presentations and yielded $40,000 for charitable objects. As a lover of fine arts and antiquities he was widely known, and his li- brary and music rooms in Fort.v-seventfi Street were richly stored with valuable objects of rarity and beauty. Dr. Ward has a place among the "American Poets." He published a volume in 1842, entitled "Passaic and Other Poems, by Flaccus," the signature so familiar to the old readers of the AVic York American. During the war Dr. Ward's muse was active in writing "war lyrics," which won much admiration when written, but are difficult to come across now. q^^^^,^ W.^terson. Med. Reg. State of N. Y., 1873. Appleton's Cyclop. Amcr. Biog., 1889. Warder, John Aston (1813-1883) John A. Warder was born near Philadelphia, January 19, 1812. He absorbed a deep Ipve for nature in his father's house when a boy, where Audubon and other famous naturalists were dail}- visitors, and at the time of his death he had risen to national prominence as a natural- ist. His family moved to Springfield, Ohio, in 1830, and in 1834 young ''arder returned to Philadelphia to attend Jefferson Medical Col- lege, graduating in 1836. The following year he settled in Cincinnati and entered enthu- siastically and successfully on medical practice. He was a public-spirited and energetic citizen, and gave much time to the study of school construction and educational systems. He was an active member of most scientific societies in his part of the country, especially the Cin- cinnati Natural History Society, and served as a member of the Ohio State Board of Agri- culture. He was particularly interested in for- estry and landscape gardening, and in 1853 enriched botanical science by his description of the Catalpa Speciosa, as a separate species, one of the most beautiful and valuable forest trees. In 1857 he moved to North Bend, Ohio, where he established a home surrounded by a model garden and farm. In 1873, as United States Commissioner to the Vienna Exposition, he submitted an oflicial report on forests and forestry that gave a tremendous impetus to the forestry movement in this country. He translated Trousseau and Belloc on "Laryn- geal Phthisis" (1839), and published "Hedge Manual" (1858); "American Pomology: Part I. Apples" (1867) ; and an edition of Alphonse Du Breuil's "Vineyard Culture" (1867). In him the Medical College of Oliio had a loyal friend at the time it most needed help and support. He held the chair of chemistry and toxicology for three terms (1854-1857). His active and useful life ended at North Bend, Ohio, July 14, 1883. Otto Juettner. Daniel Drake and His Followers, Otto Juettner, 1909. Jour. Amer. Med. Asso., Chicago, J. M. Toner, 1883, vol. i, 123. Appleton's Cyclop. Amer. Biog., 1SS9. Ware, John (1795-1864) John Ware, teacher of medicine, writer, editor, was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, December 19, 1795, the son of the Rev. Henry Ware, who was minister in that town for eighteen years, and later Hollis Professor of Theology in Harvard College' from 1805 to 1840, serving also as acting president of the college in 1810 and in 1828-29. The immigrant ancestor of the family was Robert Ware, who "came from his English home to the colony of Massachusetts Ba}- sometime before the autumn of 1642," and settled in Dedham, where he married and brought up his family, and was "the progenitor of a long line of moral teachers." John Ware's mother was the daughter of the Rev. Jonas Clark, "the patriot parson of Lexington," and the granddaughter of the Rev.. John Hancock of that town. Graduating from Harvard College in 1813, John Ware entered the Harvard Medical School and received his M. D. in 1816. He began his medical career in Duxbury, Massa- chusetts, but in 1817 returned to Boston, where he acquired an extensive practice. In his diary he says : "I had always a great many patients, but for many years a very small income, and was obliged to have recourse to other means besides my profession for the support of my family. Some of my receipts were from den- tistry, which I practised about ten years." From his diary it is learned that he also eked out his income by keeping school and by taking private "scholars." In 1820 he records the re- ceipt of the "Boylston Premium of fifty dol- lars." In 1823-25 he was physician at the Boston Almshouse, which paid a small stipend. He also gave two courses of lectures and wrote for the North American Review. With Dr. Walter Channing (q.v.) he was editor of the Nezv England Journal of Medicine and Surgery, from 1824 to 1827, and on the estab- lishment of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal in 1828, he served for a year as its first editor. From 1823 to 1825 he was editor' of the Journal of Philosophy and the Arts. This literary work was a valuable training, it gave him a good literary style and put him in touch with medical progress with which he was so closely identified in the succeeding years. After twenty years of unremitting ef-