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Born 1857
From Biographical memoirs of Wyandot County, Ohio : to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography ... embellished with portraits of many national characters and well known residents (1902)
WELLINGTON R. HARE.
In its lawyers Wyandot county, Ohio, has a bulwark of strength against oppression by the unjust and in the protection of its citizens in their guaranteed constitutional rights — a strength that is supplemented by, some of the brightest intellects of Upper Sandusky, the home of a number of brilliant members of the bar, but none of whom is more worthy of special mention in this work than the eminent gentleman whose name stands at the head of this condensed biographical sketch, condensed it must needs be, as a full account of his active life, young as he still is, would require more space than can be spared by the publisher and justice done to all, but the facts here given are plain and truthful, without loss or guile, and unembellished with overstrained rhetoric. being, like himself, plain and sincere.
Wellington R. Hare was born in Crawford township, Wyandot county, Ohio. August 13, 1857, and a full record of his paternity will be found in the sketch of the life of his brother, Curtis B. Hare, to be found on another page of this volume. The boyhood days of Mr. Hare were passed on the farm where he was born until he was thirteenyears of age, when he came with the fami ily to Upper Sandusky. Here he was afforded the privileges of attending school un-: til November, 1875, after which time he taught a district school until the spring of 1876. when he entered the Universitv of Delaware, which he attended until June,
1878. He then taught a district school in Wyandot county for two years, occupying his spare time in reading law under his brother, the Hon. D. D. Hare, and in June.
, 1885, was admitted to the bar. He immediately entered upon the practice of his profession and has been fortunate in securing a long list of substantial patrons, from whom he nets a comfortable income.
February 2. 1887, Mr. Hare was joined in matrimony with Miss Emilie Robbins, of Lima, Ohio, and this genial union has been crowned with the birth of one daughter, Jane. The family attend the Presbyterian church. In politics Mr. Hare is a Democrat and for this party works with all the vim by which he is characterized, but has never expressed any desire for election to public office.
As printed in Biographical memoirs of Wyandot County, Ohio : to which is appended a comprehensive compendium of national biography ... embellished with portraits of many national characters and well known residents (1902). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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