Edwin O. Ware, Sr.

Edwin Oswald Ware, Sr. , was a Baptist clergyman and educator who was the principal founder of Louisiana College in Pineville, Louisiana in Rapides Parish in Central Louisiana. He was both the college financial agent, 1906 to 1907, and its first president from 1908 to 1909, when he was succeeded by W. C. Friley, who also remained at the helm only for one year.

Ware was born in West Berea in Powell County, Kentucky. He was educated in local schools, the University of Kentucky at Lexington, and The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He was licensed to the ministry in 1880.

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