Author: Ware, John
Biography:
WARE, John (1795-1864: ancestry.com)
He was born in Hingham MA, second of ten children of Mary (Clarke) and Henry Ware, Sr., and younger brother of Henry Ware, Jr. (q.v.). He entered Harvard when he was thirteen and graduated in 1813, adding an MD to his arts degree in 1817. He began practice in Boston in 1814 but for some years had to supplement his income as a physician with other work--dentistry, teaching, lecturing, writing, and editing. He published a novel, Charles Ashton, anonymously in 1823; contributed to literary journals; and served for a time as editor of the New-England Medical Review and Journal. Calling on his professional experience, he wrote monographs on delirium tremens (1831), croup (1842), and hemoptysis (1860). In 1822 he married Helen Lincoln, the daughter of another physician; the couple had eight children. After her death in 1858, he married (1862) the writer Mary Greene Chandler (1818-1907). Ware achieved public recognition as a teacher of medicine after he joined the faculty of the Harvard Medical School in 1832; prosperity and honours followed. His last substantial publication was his Philosophy of Natural History (1860) but he also wrote a Memoir of the Life of Henry Ware, Jr. (1846). He died in Boston and is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery. (ancestry.com 14 Dec. 2020; DAB; findagrave.com 14 Dec. 2020) HJ