Charles Eliot Ware

The Boston Society for Medical Improvement in 1853. Standing (from left): Charles Eliot Ware, Robert William Hooper, Le Baron Russell, and Samuel Parkman. Seated: George Amory Bethune, O. W. Holmes, Samuel Cabot III, Jonathan Mason Warren, William Edward Coale, and James Browne Gregerson

Charles Eliot Ware (May 7, 1814 – September 3, 1887) was a prominent Boston physician.[1] He was the husband of Elizabeth Cabot Lee and the father of Mary Lee Ware. These women commissioned the famous Glass Flowers exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in his memory.[2] Ware was also a close friend of John Holmes, the younger brother of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.[3]

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  2. ^ "This month in Harvard history". Harvard University Gazette. The President and Fellows of Harvard College. Retrieved 14 January 2016.
  3. ^ Farm and Garden - Volume 10 - Page 10