2004-10-30/2019-10-16 - From the OHS PC Database, derived from A Guide to North American Organbuilders, by David H. Fox (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1991). — Born 1797 in Medway, Massachusetts; father of Augustus L., Marcellus A., and William Goodrich Ware. Apprentice with William Goodrich of Boston, Massachusetts, c. 1831; partner with George H. Holbrook in Holbrook & Ware [manufacturers of chamber organs and operators of a bell foundry] of Medway, Massachusetts, 1837-1850. Sources: Orpha Ochse, The History of the Organ in the United States (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), 140. Barbara Owen, The Organ in New England (Raleigh: Sunbury Press, 1979), 414. Stephen L. Pinel, "Organbuilders and Their Families: in the Population Schedules of the Federal and State Census Surveys", The Tracker: 32:1 (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 1988), 28.
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