WARD, Aener Herbert, dairy and poultry farmer,
Middletown, was born in Middletown, September 6, 1854, the son of John B.
and Ann S. (Sherman) Ward. His ancestors on both sides were of old Rhode
Island families, and on his mother's side were members of the Society of
Friends. He received his early education in the public schools of
Middletown and Newport. Later he attended East Greenwich Academy and
graduated from a commercial college in 1878. He worked for his father
on
a dairy and stock farm for several years before starting for
himself. He commenced the business of dairy and poultry farming in 1880,
and has conducted it successfully ever since, supplying a large number of
the principal summer residents of Newport with milk, cream and eggs. He
has been a member of the Town Council of Middletown since April
1884, and President of that body since 1892. He was elected a
Representative to the General Assembly in 1893 and re-elected for
successive terms since. He is a member of Coronet Council Royal Arcanum,
of Aquidneck Grange Patrons of Husbandry, and is Treasurer of Chapter 666,
Middletown, Epworth League. In politics he has always been a Republican.
He married, February 24, 1880, Miss Annie Medora Brown of Middletown, at
Whitehall Farm, the former residence of Bishop Berkeley : they have four
children : Helen M., A. Sadie, Charles H., 2d, and Medora May Ward.
Source: Rhode Island Men in Progress - Submitted by Cathy
Schultz
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