ANNIE WARE (WINSOR) ALLEN, 1865-1955

Annie Ware (Winsor) Allen, educator and founder of the Roger Ascham School in White Plains, New York, was born in Winchester, Massachusetts, on May 26, 1865. She was the fourth of seven children born to Frederick Winsor (1829-1889) and Ann Bent (Ware) Winsor (1830-1907). For further information on the Winsor children, see family tree, 719o.

AWWA's mother, Ann Bent (Ware) Winsor, was the second oldest daughter of Henry Ware, Jr. and his second wife, Mary Lovell (Pickard) Ware. Of her three brothers and three sisters (two other children died in infancy), she remained particularly close to two sisters: Harriet Ware (1834-1920) and Emma Forbes Ware (1838-1898). One brother, William R. Ware (1832-1915), was an architect; his papers are at the Institute Archives, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1857 Ann Bent (Ware) married Frederick Winsor, a physician; they settled in Winchester, MA. Three of the Winsor children, including AWWA, founded private secondary schools. Frederick Winsor, Jr. (1872-1940) founded and was headmaster (1901-1938) of the Middlesex School in Concord, MA, and Mary Pickard Winsor (1860-1950) founded and was principal (1886-1922) of the Winsor School for Girls in Brookline, MA. Another daughter, Elizabeth Ware (Winsor) Pearson, co-founded the Nursery Training School in Boston (later the Eliot-Pearson School at Tufts University) with Abigail Eliot, whose papers are also at the Schlesinger Library. The daughters of the family corresponded regularly for most of their lives, the sons less frequently.

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