HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes, Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol. III, p. 1230. [Kenton County] ORIE S. WARE--One of the representative members of the bar of Kenton county is Orie Solomon Ware, who is engaged in the successful practice of his profession in the city of Covington and who is a scion of one of the honored pioneer families of Kentucky. Mr. Ware was born at Peach Grove, Pendleton county, Kentucky, on the 11th of May, 1882, and is a son of Solomon G. and Ida F. (Petty) Ware, the former of whom was born in Campbell county, this state, and the latter in Kenton county. Daniel W., great-grandfather of him whose name initiates this review, was a native of Virginia and came to Kentucky in the latter part of the eighteenth century in company with two or more of his brothers. They established their home in Campbell county, where one of the brothers, Israel, had a patent for one thousand acres of land, being one of the first to secure such patent in the state. William Ware, father of Solomon G. Ware, was born in Campbell county and became one of the prosperous agriculturists and influential citizens of that section of the state. Solomon G. Ware was likewise identified with agricultural pursuits during the earlier part of his active career and in 1889 he established his home in Covington, where he has since been engaged in active business, as had he previously in Pendleton county for a period of five years. He is a staunch Democrat in his political proclivities, is known as one of the sterling and representative business men of Covington and both he and his wife hold membership in the Baptist church. Solomon G. and Ida F. (Petty) Ware became the parents of six sons and one daughter, all of whom are living, and of the number the subject of this review was the second in order of birth. Orie S. Ware was about seven years of age at the time of the family removal from Pendleton county to Covington, in which city he was reared to maturity. Here he duly availed himself of the advantages of the excellent public schools, after which he attended an excellent private academy conducted by Professor George W. Dunlap, at Independence, Kentucky, in which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1898. About one year later he became a student in the law office of Judge W. McD. Shaw, of Covington, where he gained his initial discipline in connection with the preparation for the work of his chose profession. Finally he was matriculated in the Cincinnati Law School, in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1903, and from which he received his degree of Bachelor of Laws. He immediately opened an office in Covington, where he conducted an individual practice until the 1st of January, 1910, when he became a partner of his former preceptor Judge Shaw, who had just retired from the bench of the Kenton circuit court. Since the time he has proved an able and valued coadjutor of Judge Shaw and their professional business is conducted under the firm name of Shaw & Ware. Mr. Ware has proved himself well qualified for the work of both branches of his profession and has been distinctively successful therein. In politics he is a staunch advocate of the cause of the Democratic party and he has been an active worker in its ranks. He is a most appreciative member of the Masonic fraternity, in which he has attained to the Thirty-second degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite and in which he also holds membership in the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He has held various offices in both the York and Scottish Rite bodies and is past master of Covington Lodge, No. 109, Free and Accepted Masons. In 1910 he was elected grand junior warden of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky. He is a member of the Baptist church and his wife holds membership in the Presbyterian church. On the 19th of September, 1906, Mr. Ware was united in marriage to Miss Louise Culbertson, who was born and reared in Covington and who is a daughter of the Late Louis Culbertson, a well-known and honored citizen of Covington for many years prior to his death. Mr. and Mrs. Ware have one son, William. Ware Petty Dunlap Shaw Culbertson = Pendleton-KY Campbell-KY Cincinnati-Hamilton-OH VA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/kenton/ware.os.txt