1860 Census, Clark County, Ohio, 2nd Ward, City of Springfield (courtesy of Alice M. Kinnard, Clark County Historical Society); Kroger, A. Briscoe, The Negro Lawyer in Maryland (Baltimore: 1948) p.7; The Baltimore Sun, 12 October, 1885. There is some disagreement about Waring's birth year. The Afro-American of June 13, 1896 lists his birth year as "the first year of the Civil War," which would be 1861; Baltimore Sun, October 12, 1885, p.4; Baltimore Morning Herald, March 10, 1897, p.11; Baltimore American and Commercial Advertiser, March 9, 1897, p. 10; Baltimore American and Commercial Advertiser, March 14, 1897, p. 6; Baltimore American and Commercial Advertiser, March 16, 1897, p. 11; Maryland State Archives, SC 3522-1745-12.