Edwin O. Ware, Sr.
Deceased Person
1853 – 1933
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Who was Edwin O. Ware, Sr.?
Edwin Oswald Ware, Sr., was a Baptist clergyman and educator who was the principal founder of Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisiana in Rapides Parish in Central Louisiana. He was both the college financial agent, 1906 to 1907, and its first president from 1908 to 1909, when he was succeeded by W. C. Friley, who also remained at the helm only for one year.
Louisiana College marked its 100th year on October 3, 2006. For the centennial ceremony held on October 26, former U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush gave the principal speaker.
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- Born
- Oct 29, 1853
Powell County - Also known as
- Edwin Ware, Sr.
- Education
- Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
- University of Kentucky
- Lived in
- Alexandria
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Rapides Parish
- Died
- 1933
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on July 23, 2013
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