During World War II, he treated soldiers at Camp Devens during the Spanish flu epidemic.
[2][4][5][b] William Waring attended schools in Oberlin, Ohio, and was a Howard University educated lawyer and a minister.
[6] James' great uncle was Arthur Waring, a member of the American Society of Free Persons of Color (1830).
He researched the problems of African Americans in Baltimore and wrote Some Causes of Criminality Among Colored People, about the effect of poor living conditions.
He was the educational secretary and physician during the Spanish flu epidemic at Camp Devens in Massachusetts during World War I.
[2] After the war, he practiced medicine in Hopkinton, Massachusetts before he moved to Downington, Pennsylvania and worked at the Industrial School for Boys.
[12][13][c] James N. H. Waring, Jr. was also an educator[2] who also secured the position of principal at the Downingtown Industrial and Agricultural School in Downington, Chester County, Pennsylvania.