M-351: Eugene Ware Letters Finding Aid

Dates: 1875-1909

Creator: Eugene Ware

Extent: 0.1 linear feet

Scope: This collection contains 65 pieces of correspondence and one photograph. The correspondence at times also contains attached newspaper clippings and publications - in such cases the attachments have been made note of in the item description. The correspondence has been arranged chronologically, with the addressee and addresser made note of, with titles of the persons involved sometimes included as well. Various letters to and from Ware, the author of "The Indian War of 1864," relating to his work as the Commissioner of the Bureau of Pensions. Also includes material on the history of Kansas and letters regarding a squabble over Ware's land.

Eugene Fitch Ware (b. 1841), the United States Commissioner of Pensions (1902-1905), was born in Connecticut and lived briefly in Iowa before settling in Kansas as a homesteader and commissioner. He also wrote poetry under the name 'Ironquill', wrote historical works (The Indian War of 1864 being possibly his most famous), was a lawyer, editor of The Fort Scott Monitor, and was elected to state office, as a state senator (1879-1883). Mr. Ware also served in the Civil War, where he was promoted from private to captain by the war's end. He was married to Jeanette P. Huntington of Rochester, New York in 1874 and died in 1911.

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Restrictions: None

Preferred Citation note: The preferred citation for this collection is “From the Special Collections of the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri – St. Louis.”

 

Collection Inventory

  1. 2/28/1875 – to E.F. Ware, Director McAllister Choctaw Nation, from A.W. David
  2. 8/9/1880 – to Eugene F. Ware, from John A. Martin, member Nat’l Republican
  3. 8/12/1880 – to Eugene F. Ware, from Drake DeKay, Secy Nat’l Com
  4. 8/24/1880 – to Dir Sir, from A. Leck, Ass’t Adj’t Gen, Headquarters 2nd Kansas Brigade
  5. 12/10/1880 – to My Dear Ware, from Louis Hanbock, Chaplain
  6. 2/9/1883 – to Hon Eugene Ware, Senate Chamber of Topeka, from G. Wood Davis
  7. 1/14/1884 – to Hon E.F. Ware, from G. Wood Davis
  8. 3/1/1884 – to Eugene Ware, from J.M. Dennis
  9. 6/1/1885 – to E.F. Ware, from Irving Davis
  10. 9/25/1887 – to Eugene and Net-, from Reuben
  11. 2/5/1888 – to Eugene F. Ware, from Eugene L. Ware (contains genealogical table of 6 generations of Wares)
  12. 4/15/1888 - to Eugene F. Ware, from Eugene L. Ware (contains genealogical table of 6 generations of Wares)
  13. 12/19/1888 – to L.H. Daggett, from E.F. Ware
  14. 2/18/1889 – to E.F. Ware, from L.H. Daggett
  15. 5/20/1889 – to E.F. Ware, from S.R. DeLaus, W.J. Store, and A.A. Wavel
  16. 7/20/1889 – to Eugene F. Ware, from J. Patterson
  17. 1/3/1890 – to My Dear Ware, from H.J. Dennis, State of Kansas Librarian
  18. 4/2/1890 – to J.D. Vanfosseu, from E.F. Ware (verso contains letter from Vanfosseu to Ware in response to original; both correspondences are about a land dispute)
  19. 5/20/1890 – to Hon. E.F. Ware, from DeLaus
  20. 7/5/1890 – to Dear Ware, from DeLaus
  21. 7/18/1890 – to Dear Ware, from DeLaus
  22. 7/19/1890 – to Dear Ware, from DeLaus
  23. 7/24/1890 – to Dear Ware, from DeLaus
  24. 9/28/1890 – to My Dear Ware, from H.J. Dennis, State of Kansas Librarian
  25. 10/16/1890 – to Hon. E.F. Ware, from H.J. Dennis, State Librarian of Kansas
  26. 11/30/1890 – to E.F. Ware, from Abby (daughter of E.F. Ware)
  27. 9/26/1891 – to Dear Si, from Franklin E. Denton
  28. 10/18/1891 – to Dear Sir, from Franklin E. Denton
  29. 11/18/1891 – to Hon. Jud West, from E.F. Ware (with response from J.S. West)
  30. 11/27/1891 – to E.F. Ware, from A.B. Denton
  31. 2/17/1891 – to Dear Friend, from Franklin E. Denton
  32. 5/11/1892 – to E.F. Ware, from D.- Anthony, Leavenworth Times
  33. 5/11/1892 – to My Dear Ware, from H.J. Dennis (contains tipped-in newspaper clippings, “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” and “An Indian Fight”)
  34. 12/17/1892 – to J.M. Anthony, from E.F. Ware
  35. 4/3/1893 – to Eugene F. Ware, from N.E. Dawson
  36. 4/12/1893 – to My Dear Old Friend, from N.E. Dawson (contains newspaper clippings on Captain Noble E. Dawson, former private stenographer to General Grant, prisoner of war in Texas during the Civil War, and stenographer of the U.S. House of Representatives, and a clipping on General George R. Davis of the Civil War)
  37. 10/31/1893 – to My Dear Mr. Ware, from Davis (contains newspaper clipping on an editorial article from The Sun, “The Farmer and the Crisis”)
  38. 1/23/1894 – to Henry C. Kellar, from E.F. Ware (with response from Keller)
  39. 2/15/1894 – to Davis, from E.F. Ware (with response)
  40. 3/11/1895 – to Dear Sir (Ware), from S.S. Ashburgh (contains Chicago & Rock Island Railroad pass)
  41. 12/3/1895 – to W.P. Dilworth, from E.F. Ware
  42. No date – to E.F. Ware, from Heizer
  43. 7/11/1897 – to Dear Sir (Ware), from Frederick S. Willenbaugh
  44. 8/10/1897 – to Dear Sir (Ware), from F.S. Willenbaugh
  45. 4/7/1898 – to Dear Ware, from Davis
  46. No date – to My Dear Ware, from C. Wood Davis
  47. 5/9/1898 – to My Dear Ware, from C. Wood Davis (contains clipping “Forecasts Realized” by C. Wood Davis from The Kansas Farmer, May 5, 1898)
  48. 5/13/1898 – from R.L. Dewey (contains “Prospectus of ‘Dewey’ Family History, Being a History and Genealogy of Thomas Dewey, of Dorchester, Mass., and Windsor, Conn. and other Families named Dewey”)
  49. 6/30/1898 – to Dear Sir (Dewey). From T.K. Cummins, Jr.
  50. 9/13/1898 – from T.K. Cummins, Jr.
  51. 12/5/1898 – to Dear Ware, from David N. Heizer
  52. 12/29/1898 – from T.K. Cummins, Jr.
  53. 1/12/1899 – to Dear Sir (Ware), from T. Jefferson Coolidge, Jr.
  54. 2/7/1899 – to My Dear Ware, from C. Wood Davis
  55. 2/17/1899 – to My Dear Ware, from C. Wood Davis
  56. 11/25/1899 – to My Dear Ware, from (?)
  57. 2/23/1903 – to My Dear Captain Ware, from W. ----
  58. No date – to Dear Sir (Secretary of War), from E.F. Ware
  59. 10/1/1904 – to Dear Sir (Ware), from Geo Whipple
  60. 12/12/1904 – to Dear Sir (Ware), from Jas. E. Wood
  61. 3/2/1905 – to My Dear Ironquill (Ware), from Harry G. Wilson
  62. 9/27/1905 – to My Dear Ware, from V. Warner (Dept. of Interior)
  63. 10/24/1905 – to Friend Ware, from V. Warner
  64. 9/3/1909 – to My Dear Ware, from William ---nnelley
  65. No date – from Rever (contains newspaper clipping of the poem “Dewey’s Victory” by Eugene F. Ware of Kansas)
  66. 1898 – photograph of E.F. Ware