Edward Twichell Ware

{{Use American English|date=April 2022}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2022}}{{Short description|Third president of Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA}} thumb|284x284px|Edward Twichell Ware, c. 1910 '''Edward Twichell Ware''' (1874 – May 19, 1927) was an American academic administrator and the third president of Atlanta University (now Clark Atlanta University) from 1907 to 1919.<ref>{{cite web |title=Collection: Edward Twichell Ware records {{!}} Archives Research Center |url=http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:018 |website=findingaids.auctr.edu |publisher=Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library |hdl=20.500.12322/fa:018 |access-date=12 May 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Bush |first1=Harold K. |title=Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age |date=2007 |publisher=University of Alabama Press |isbn=978-0-8173-1538-2 |pages=148 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UH8p5qYGdd0C&pg=PA148 |access-date=12 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref> Ware graduated from Yale College in 1897, and returned to Atlanta University to help in fundraising efforts.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Range |first1=Willard |title=The Rise and Progress of Negro Colleges in Georgia, 1865-1949 |date=1951 |publisher=University of Georgia Press |isbn=978-0-8203-3452-3 |pages=166–170 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ufARwDMhW8sC&pg=PA166 |access-date=12 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref> Students perceived Ware as being different from other white people, because he extended common courtesies to black students.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Link |first1=William A. |title=Atlanta, Cradle of the New South: Race and Remembering in the Civil War's Aftermath |date=2016 |publisher=UNC Press Books |isbn=978-1-4696-0777-1 |pages=126–130 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aI8K-5b0MUAC&pg=PA127 |access-date=12 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref> His father was Edmund Asa Ware, the first president of Atlanta University.

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==External links== {{archival records|title=Edward Twichell Ware Records}} *{{cite web |title=Edward Twichell Ware ca. 1907 |url=https://hbcudigitallibrary.auctr.edu/digital/collection/rwwl/id/117 |website=hbcudigitallibrary.auctr.edu |publisher=HBCU Library Alliance |access-date=12 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118100841/https://hbcudigitallibrary.auctr.edu/digital/collection/rwwl/id/117 |archive-date=18 January 2021 |language=en}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ware, Edward Twichell}} Category:Clark Atlanta University faculty Category:Yale College alumni Category:1874 births Category:1927 deaths Category:Educators from Atlanta Category:Presidents of Clark Atlanta University