Named for Howard Scott Waring (1850-1893), a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, and/or his wife Lucretia Cole Waring (1860-1953). Born in Sacramento, “Lutie” Cole was the daughter of Senator Cornelius Cole, who founded the town of Colegrove and liked to name streets here after family members. (See Cole Avenue for more.) After a year-plus engagement, she married Lt. Waring in Colegrove in 1882 once he returned from the Bering Strait – he had been posted there to search for the crew of the USS Jeannette, who were lost while exploring the Arctic. The couple briefly lived in St. Louis, where their only child Olive (1885-1944) was born, then settled in Washington, D.C. But the Arctic’s extreme conditions had wrecked Howard’s health and his final decade was a struggle, although he remained active in the Navy until his death. Lutie and Olive stayed on in D.C. until relocating to Los Angeles in 1909. Olive, who never married, wound up teaching at Hollywood High. Waring Avenue was named by 1902.
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