“BARMUM, Hendrick Ware, lawyer; b. Danbury, Conn., Apr. 12, 1879; s. Hendrick and Charlotte M. (Ware) Barnum; paternal ancestor, Thomas Barnum, who settled in Danbury, Conn., 1685; maternal ancestor, Robert Ware, who settled in Dedham, Mass., 1692; A.B., St. Lawrence U., 1889, A.M., 1900; A.B., Harvard, 1900; LL. B., Harvard Law Sch., 1903; m. Margarett H. Currier, of Colton, N. Y., Apr. 28, 1903; 3 children, Margarett Elizabeth, Elinor Pamela, Marian Ware.  Practiced at Boston since 1903; mem. Elder, Whitman & Barnum since 1019; asst. atty. gen. of Mass., 1915.  Mem. Norfolk County Bar Assn.  Republican. Universalist.  Mason.  Clubs: Boston City, Boston Athletic, Waumpatuck Country.   Recreation: fencing, tennis, golf.  Home: 199 Chapman St., Canton, Mass.  Office: 1104 Pemberton Blilg., Boston.”

Source:  Who’s Who in New England: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men, by Albert Nelson Marquis, 1915, Second Ed. 1916, A. N. Marquis Co., publisher, Chicago, page 79