Silas Hare was a United States. Representative from Texas.
Background
Silas Hare Senior was born in Ross County, Ohio, to Jacob and Elizabeth Freshour Hare on November 13, 1827, and lived the first fourteen years of his life with his grandfather Daniel Hare. His father died in 1835, and in 1841, Hare rejoined his mother and other family members in Hamilton County, Indiana, near Noblesville, where he attended common and private schools.
Education
He studied law in Noblesville, and was admitted to the Indiana Bar Association in 1850 and commenced practice in Noblesville, Indiana.
Career
Hare moved to Belton, Texas, in 1853 where he continued the practice of law. In 1852, Hare began traveling to improve his health. He visited Mexico, Central America, Hawaii (at that time, the Sandwich Islands), Oregon.
Hare served during the Mexican-American War in the 1st Indiana Volunteers 1846 and 1847.
At the Battle of Buena Vista, Hare was wounded by a lance. During the Civil War Hare served as a captain in the Confederate States Army.
He served as Chief justice of New Mexico in 1862 under the Confederate Government. Hare settled in Sherman, Texas, in 1865 and resumed the practice of law.
He served as district judge of the criminal court 1873–1876.
He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1884. Hare was elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1891). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1890.
In 1890, Hare resumed the practice of law in Washington, District of Columbia
Octavia died June 5, 1890 and is interred at West Hill Cemetery in Sherman, Texas.
The elopement left the New York Times speculating about the honeymoon, “They have not returned, and the ex-Congressman’s friends have no idea where they are.”
Silas Hare died in Washington, District of Columbia Mary Louise Kennedy Hare died November 3, 1912.