William Ware was an American

United States

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 romancer, born at Hingham, Mass.

Hingham, Massachusetts

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  He graduated at Harvard

Harvard University

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 (1816), studied for the Unitarian

Unitarianism

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 ministry, and preached mainly in New York, and later in Massachusetts.

He achieved literary recognition chiefly from his authorship of two historical romances, Zenobia, or the Fall of Palmyra (first published as Letters from Palmyra, 1836 and 1837) and Aurelian (first published as Probus, 1838).

He contributed the Life of Nathaniel Bacon

Nathaniel Bacon

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 to Sparks's

Jared Sparks

Jared Sparks was an American historian, educator, and Unitarian minister. He served as President of Harvard University from 1849 to 1853.-Biography:...

The Library of American Biography. His Lectures on Washingston Allston was published in 1852. His Writings were published in 1904.

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