Biography

10/16/1840 - 03/21/1924

WARE, Seymour D., a Representative from Erie County; born in Springfield Township, Erie County, Pa., October 16, 1840; attended, West Springfield Academy; private, hospital steward, Company D, 145th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1862-1865, Civil War); farmer; elected, delegate, Republican State Convention (1899); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to the 1903 and 1905 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1906); appointed, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Board of Education; died, March 21, 1924 in Springfield Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania; interred, Springfield Cemetery, East Springfield, Erie County, Pennsylvania.