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词条 Edwin O. Ware Sr.
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  1. Background

  2. Career

  3. References

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|name = Edwin Oswald Ware Sr.
|image=
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|caption=
|office=1st President of Louisiana College
| term_start=1908
| term_end=1909
| preceded=Edwin O. Ware Sr.
| succeeded=W. C. Friley
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1853|10|29}}
| birth_place = Powell County, Kentucky, USA
| death_date = {{death date and age|1933|12|6|1853|10|29}}
| death_place =Place of death missing
| residence =Rapides Parish
Louisiana
| resting_place=
|occupation = Baptist clergyman: Author of the resolution establishing Louisiana College in Pineville
|spouse= Blanche Fortson Ware (married 1890)
|children=Nine children, including Edwin Ware Jr.
|alma_mater=University of Kentucky
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
|party=
|footnotes=
}}{{Baptist}}

Edwin Oswald Ware Sr. (October 29, 1853 – December 6, 1933), was a Southern 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 was the principal speaker.

Background

Ware was born in West Berea in Powell County, Kentucky. He was educated in local schools, the University of Kentucky at Lexington, and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He was licensed to the ministry in 1880.

He moved to Louisiana in 1888 and lived first in Cheneyville (pronounced CHAIN E VILLE) in south Rapides Parish. In 1890, he married the former Blanche Fortson of rural Keatchie in DeSoto Parish. The couple had nine children.

Career

Ware served as the pastor of Southern Baptist churches in Pineville, Alexandria, Lecompte (pronounced LUH COUNT), and Boyce, all in Rapides Parish. Ware preached within a brush arbor tabernacle on Reagan Street in Pineville at what became the First Baptist Church of Pineville, founded in 1911 with modest beginnings as "Pineville Baptist Church".[1]

Ware was executive secretary of the Louisiana Baptist Mission Board from 1892 to 1906 and again from 1910 to 1912. He was also the general missionary of the mission board from 1919 until his death.

He was president of the Louisiana Baptist Convention in 1892, 1922, and 1923. He owned and edited the Baptist Chronicle from 1912 to 1919. The paper was the forerunner of the Baptist Message, the long-time state denominational organ published in Alexandria. Ware offered a resolution at the Louisiana Baptist Convention in 1893 that ultimately resulted in the establishment of Louisiana College.

One of Ware's grandsons, Alexandria lawyer Edwin Oswald "Ed" Ware, III (1927-2016), was the Rapides Parish district attorney from January 1, 1967, until December 31, 1984. A conservative Democrat, Ware, III, was known for undertaking various moral crusades, including legal action against obscenity.

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References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/local/2016/06/10/first-baptist-pineville-works-revitalize/85716124/|title=First Baptist of Pineville works to revitalize itself|date=June 10, 2016|author=Melanie Torbett|publisher=The Alexandria Town Talk|accessdate=June 11, 2016}}
  • "Edwin Oswald Ware," A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography, Vol. 2 (1988), p. 825
  • John Pinckney Durham and John S. Ramond, Baptist Builders in Louisiana (1934)
  • Glen Lee Greene, House Upon a Rock (1973)
  • The Alexandria Daily Town Talk, January 1, 1913
  • http://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061003/NEWS01/61002025
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12 : 1853 births|1933 deaths|People from Alexandria, Louisiana|People from Pineville, Louisiana|People from Powell County, Kentucky|Southern Baptist ministers|University of Kentucky alumni|Southern Baptist Theological Seminary alumni|Presidents of Louisiana College|People from Cheneyville, Louisiana|Baptists from Louisiana|Baptists from Kentucky

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