Obituary for Raymond Ware
The Ithaca Journal, Jan 24 1951, P. 5, Col. 5

"Raymond Ware Dies; Former Ithacan
  Raymond Ware, 68, consulting engineer and one-time secretary of the Thomas-Morse Aircraft Corporation in Ithaca, died Monday, Jan. 22, 1951, in Faxton Hospital, Utica.
  Born in Dorchester, Mass, June 13, 1883, he was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Ware. He was graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he specialized in mechanical engineering and naval architecture.
  He came to Ithaca in 1914 with Harold N. Bliss and George Abel to work in the development of the Thomas Aeromotor Company, for W. T. Thomas. This later became the Thomas-Morse Aircraft Corporation. He left here about 1930 to make his home in Hamilton. He held several patents on aircraft engine parts.
  In 1919 he married Catherine Munroe Schurman, daughter of the late Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, third president of Cornell University, and Mrs. Schurman. His wife died in May, 1936.
  He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Robert B. Porter of Syracuse and Mrs. H. Warner Griggs of Duluth, Minn.; three grandchildren, and a brother, E. Winslow Ware of Chestnut Hill, Mass.
  Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Beecher Funeral Home, Hamilton, with the Rev. Paul F. Swarthout officiating.
  Burial will be in Chestnut Hill."