“Rev. JAMES PORTER WARE. B.D.,  Born in Massachusetts, April 6, 1859.  Graduated B.L. from Delaware College, Delaware, 1883;  B.D., Episcopal Theological Seminary, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1886.  Ordained Deacon by Rev. Thomas M. Clark, D.D., L.L. D., Rhode Island, June 19, 1886;  Priest by the same, 1887.  Rector at Woburn, Massachusetts, 1886.  Manville, Rhode Island, 1887.  He became assistant and minister of St. Stephen’s Church, Wilkes Barre; in charge of St. Peter’s, Plymouth, 1888.  He married, October 12, 1887, Miss Helen E. Story.  He resides in Plymouth.”

Source:  The Wyoming Valley in 1892, by Samuel Robert Smith, The Scranton Republican Print, 1892, page 90