Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-26
COMMISSIONER WARE
The Personal Side of a New
Official.
HIS TALENTED WIFE
THEY HAVE A DAUGHTER
TEACHING LAW AND LATIN.
Family Have Strong Intellectual
Tastes and Bound to Get on
in the World.

Written for The Evening Star.
Mr.. Eugene F. Ware, who has recently
been appointed commissioner of pensions
by President Roosevelt, is a man of great
genius and intellectually.
Although native of New England most
of his life has been spent in the west At
an early age he removed with his parents
from Hartford, Conn, where he was born,
to Burlington, Iowa, and where the son
was educated in the public schools of the
latter city Having acquired a common
school education he entered the army just
at the beginning of the civil war Enlist
ing first with Company E, LIST Iowa Volun-
teer Infantry. he afterwards served in
Company l., 4th Iowa Volunteer Infantry,
and finally became captain of Company F.
18th Iowa Volunteer Infantry. He saw ac-
tive service with Gems. Mitchell. Stolbrand.
Thomas. Washington and Dodge in the
Indian troubles which followed the close
of the civil war. 1t was in these cam
paigns that he experienced many severe
hardShips and received the wound from
which he has ever since carried the effects
After more than five years of army life
Mr.. Ware went TO Fort Scott Kan, where
he opened a harness shop and, incidental
~, wrote verses, many of which appeared
In the county papers. While on his faith
er's stock farm in Cherokee county he
thorough a student that when he returned
10 Fort Scott Judge McCOmas at that
time the most noted lawyer in that part of
the country. took him into his office as
subsidiary partner. However, young Ware
was not born to take q secondary place
anywhere, and it was not long before he
became partner in reality with the dis
tinguished judge. He was admitted to the
bar in 1871. Three years later he was mar
RED TO Miss Jeanette p. Huntington. in
Rochester. y. Y
Before and during the civil war Fort
Scott was an army post and the headquar-
tiers of a large number Of army officers and
their families. II was at that time and for
years afterward the social center of the
state. In this gay western town Miss
Huntington, who had lust graduated from
Vassar. came to take position as teacher
In the public schools. She was most popu-
lar at the army post, exceedingly bright
and quite as pretty clever. 1t was no
small wonder that the future commissioner
of pensions Immediately fell In love with
her. After their marriage they established
their home in Fort Scott. where for twenty
years it was noted for It's hospitality.
A Well-Read Woman.
Mrs. Ware is an energetic little woman
with great mental powers. A graduate of
Vassar, her education did not cease with
her college days but she has always been
a most careful and eager student. She
IS quite an authority upon literary and
historical subjects, but Is always thorough
" abreast of the times and conversant upon
all topics of the day. She Is. also a great
club woman. She was q charter member
OF the "Castalia," one of the oldest wo-
man clubs of the state, devoted to the study
Of history and art. She IS now member
of the New Century Club IN Topeka. and
a state officer in the general federation
Several weeks ago when Mr.. Ware was
east, to the inquiry to what his wife was
interested in, he replied, "Oh, she's a mem
Der of every woman's club in the state of
Kansas, She is now busy with paper to
read before the Los Angeles convention In
April and writes that she wants me to go
with my daughter and her. 1 suppose I'll
go. for like everyone else do as she saysI'
Which must be true, as he has gone this
week with the Kansas party to the conven-
ton city.
Mrs. Ware. although thoroughly inter-
ested in wOmen's clubs, does not devote her
entire time to them. She is active in
church work, philanthropies and many
charities. Since 1893 her home has been in
Topeka, and there as in Fort Scott, it Is
very center of culture and hospitality. She
Is a recognized social leader and her friends
are countless.
There is nothing Mr.. Ware enjoys quite
so much as a joke on his good wife. One
day several years ago he sat down in his