CORYDON O. WARE, an
enterprising farmer of Hampden township, is a native of Geauga county,
Ohio, born January 13, 1850, a son of Alfred Ware, a
native of Madison, Lake county, Ohio. The grandfather, Asaph
Ware, emigrated to Ohio from the East at an early day, and located
in Madison, subsequently removing to Hampden township, Geauga county. In
1855 he removed to Linn county, Iowa, where he passed the remainder of
his life. Alfred Ware is one of a family of four children,
and he lived all his life in Hampden township with the exception of two
years. He bought the old Ware homestead, where he died in 1862. His
wife, whose maiden name was Harriet Dorman, was born in
Charleston, Portage county, Ohio; she died at the age of fifty-seven
years. C. O. Ware, is the only child of Alfred and Harriet D.
Ware. He attended the district schools, and early became
accustomed to the hard labor of the farm. He was a lad of thirteen years
when his father died, and at the age of sixteen he took charge of the
homestead on which he has ever since lived. Mr. Ware was
married June 22, 1886, to Alma Mapes, who was born at
Mayfield, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, a daughter of Hiel and Eliza (Field)
Mapes, natives of New York and Vermont, respectively. They emigrated
to Ohio in their youth and were married at Mayfield. Mr. Mapes
followed agricultural pursuits through life; he moved to Michigan, and
died at Coldwater, at the age of sixty-seven years; his wife is still
living, at Winfield, Michigan. They reared a family of five children. Mrs.
Ware was educated at Oberlin College, and is a woman of superior
attainments. Mr. Ware supports the issues of the
Republican party. He carries on a general farming business, and has 123
acres in a high state of cultivation. His maple grove contains 700 trees
and is one of the best in the township.
Mr. and Mrs. Ware are the parents of one child,
a daughter named Margery.
Source:
Biographical history of northeastern Ohio -
Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1893 - pages 1014 |
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