CHURCHES.

METHODIST EPISCOPAL.

W.H. Ware (the boy-preacher), 1868

LAWYERS.

Union City.

W.E. Ware

BANKS.

It was under the general banking law of 1837 as amended that Branch County took never-to-be-forgotten lessons in financiering. The county then had a population of four thousand, and the village of Coldwater numbered about five hundred souls.

The stockholders were:  …J.S. Ware…

Source:  History of Branch County, Michigan, by Crisfield Johnson, Everets and Abbott, Philadelphia, 1879