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6xo WARD. WARE. Times," "The Boston Herald," and other influential daily and weekly papers, on the religious, social, and educational questions of the day. In this field he found an in- creasing demand for his work, and though he removed to Boston in the winter of 1878 to organize and build up a people's Episcopal church in that city, and for three seasons had Sunday afternoon lec- tures in Union Hall, which were intended to lead the way to this kind of parish, he gradually found that in the field of editorial writing there was an unorganized parish which awaited him, and in which his suc- cess was such, that, on taking advice with those best able to counsel him, he relin- JULIUS H. WARD. quished the special work for which he came to Boston. He henceforth gave his tunc entirely to the thorough and compre- hensive studies winch prepare one to discuss the questions in religion, social movement, and the direction of education, that require treatment in the daily and weekly press, and in other places where public discussion is carried on. Mr. Ward has been connected in tins service, mainly with the "Boston Herald," since Septem- ber, 1 .S 7 7 , but it is also known that he is a constant leader writer on the subjects which he has specially studied, for the New York daily and weekly press. In addition to his special work in the "Herald," he has also had charge of its literary department, and its important re- view articles are nearly always from his pen. He also writes frequently for the monthly magazines, on literary, social, and religious subjects. He resides in Brook- line, and though not connected with any parish, is an active and influential church- man, and combines what is strongest and best in the high and broad schools of religious thought. He was married to Olive Elizabeth, daughter of John and Mary (Bradford) Witter, of Brooklyn, Conn., at Trinity church, in that town, September 2, 1862, and has two children : Mary Olive, born April 6, 1867, and Grace Witter, born June 12, .S76. Mr. Ward's constant labors as a clergy- man-journalist have interfered with his intended contributions to literature, but during the present year he has completed a constructive study of the relations of the Christian church to our own time, which has recently been published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., under the title of " The Church in Modern Society," and he is understood to have two other books on hand, one of which will be devoted to the New England development of the century, while the other will be a short- ened history of the origin and growth of the Episcopal church in America. WARE, Moses Everett, is tin- son of Leonard and Sarah Anna (Minns) Ware, and was born in Boston, August 4, 1841. After graduating from the Roxbury high school in 1858, he went into the counting-room of Wyman & Arklay, im- porters of 1 (undee linens. In 1S60 he became a member of the 4th battalion infantry —went to the war as 1st sergeant of company G, 45th regiment, Massachusetts volunteers ; and in 1862 he returned as 2d lieutenant of the same company; raised a company in twenty- four hours to answer the (all from Presi- dent Lincoln lor troops for the defense of Washington, in [864, and went as captain of company II, in the nth regiment, Mas- sachusetts olunteer militia. He is a member of the Unitarian, the Massachusetts, and the Roxbury clubs, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the Association of Officers of the 45th Regi- ment, and a director in the Roxbury Char- itable Society. In 1887 he was elected a member of the House of Representatives, and in 1888 was honored with a re-election, serving each