Hare was the seventeenth president of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Sidney Herbert Hare was born on June 27, 1888, in Kansas City, Missouri, to Mathilda Amelia (née Korfhage) and Sid J. Hare, a landscape architect.
[1] Hare attended Manual High School in Kansas City and then Harvard University for landscape architecture from 1908 to 1910, where he studied under the noted Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., but never completed the degree.
[1][4] During World War I, Hare was an urban planner for the U.S. Army at Camp Funston and for the United States Housing Corporation.
[1] In 1913, Hare registered as a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and became a fellow in 1919.