Background
Ware, John Fothergill Waterhouse was born on August 31, 1818 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Henry and Elizabeth (Waterhouse) Ware.
Ware, John Fothergill Waterhouse was born on August 31, 1818 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Henry and Elizabeth (Waterhouse) Ware.
Graduated from Harvard, 1838, Harvard Divinity School, 1842.
Pastor, Unitarian church, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1843-1846, Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, 1846-1864. Served Union cause during Civil War by lecturing in various parts of country, preparing tracts and visiting soldiers in camp. Minister First Independent Society of Baltimore, 1864-1867.
Pastor of new religious group, Church of the Saviour, Baltimore, 1867-1872.
Interested in welfare of freedmen, established schools for Negro children. Organized a church, Swampscott, Massachusetts, circa 1870.
Pastor Arlington Street Church, Boston, 1872-1881. Author: The Silent Pastor, or Consolations for the Sick, 1848.
Home Life: What lieutenant Is and What lieutenant Needs, 1864.
(sermons) Wrestling and Waiting, published posthumously, 1882.
Married Caroline Parsons Rice, May 27, 1844. Married second, Helen Rice, October 10, 1849.