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HBRRINGSHAW'S LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.

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ently

was the unsuccessful candidate

for the

United States congress and for lieutenantgovernor of Minnesota. Ames, Azel, physician, author, was born Aug. 16, 1845, in Chelsea, Mass. During the civil war he served as iirst lieutenant in the second Louisiana engineers. United States army. In 1871 he began the practice of me-

and

dicine;

also a

is

well-known sanitary engineer and expert of Wakefield, Mass. In 1879 he was a representative in the Massa-

and appointed to the command of the department of Mississippi in 1869. In 1869-75 he was United States senator. In 1874-76 he was governor of Mississippi. He was appointed brigadier-general United States volunteers in 1898, serving during the Spanish-American war. Ames, Charles Gordon, printer, clergyman, author, was born Oct. 3, 1828, in Dorchester, Mass. In 1849 he was ordained as a free baptist; and in 1859 passed to the unitarians. He has filled pasin 1868;

torates in Minneapolis,

Bloomington, Alba-

ny and Philadelphia;

chusetts state legislature. In 1898-99 he was

seven

and

preached

years

California, he gathered sevin

acting-assistant surge-

where

on

eral fine congregations.

United States army during the Spanish-American war; and in 1899 was major and brigadier surgeon in the United States volunteers. In 1900 he was commissioner for the United States department of labor to Porto Rico. He is the author of Sex in Industry; The Mayflower and Her Log; Elementary Hygiene for the Tropics and The Family of John in

the

Since 1889 he has been duly settled in Boston, where he succeeded to

James Freeman-Clarke as pastor of the church of the disciples. In 1855-57 he was editor of the Minnesota Republican; and in 1877-80 was editor of the Christian Register. He is the author of

Two

Marriages;

As Natural

Philips.

George Eliot's

Ames, Butler, soldier, mechanical engineer, congressman, was born Aug. 22, 1871, in Lowell, Mass. In 1894 he graduated from West

as Life; a small collection of poems; two hundred and fifty printed sermons.

Point military academy; and received the degree of B.A. from the Massachusetts institute of technology; since 1896 he has been agent of the Wamesit power company of Lowell, Mass. During the

Spanish-American war he was lieutenant and adjutant of the sixth regiment Massachusetts volunteers and in 1897-99 he was for three years a, representative to the Massachusetts state legislature. In 1903-11 he was a representative from Massachusetts to the fifty-eighth, the fiftyninth, sixtieth and sixty-first congresses as a republican. Ames, Adelbert, soldier, governor. United States senator, was born Oct. 31, 1835, in Rockland, Maine. In 1861 he graduated from the military academy at West Point. He was commissioned second lieutenant of artillery; was brevetted major for gallant services at the battle of Bull Run, where he was wounded; was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for services at the battle of Malvern Hill; was appointed colonel of volunteers was brevetted colonel for services at the battle of Gettysburg; was brevetted major-general of volunteers for services at Fort Fisher; and was again brevetted major-general in the United States army at the close of the war. He was appointed provisional governor of Mississippi

and

Ames, Charles Wilberforce, publisher, founder, was born June 80, 1855, in Minneapolis, Minn. He was educated at the Boys' academy of Albany, N. Y.; and in 1878 graduated from Cornell university of Ithaca, N. Y. He is a noted law publisher of St. Paul, Minn.; and secretary, general manager and vice-president of the West publishing company of that city, publishers of the National Reporter

System

and the American Digest System. He was the originator and one of the most active founders of the St. Paul institute of arts and sciences, a great and noble institution beneficial to every home, every teacher and every school child; and stands for the highest education and culture of all the people of St. Paul. He is president of the St. Paul institute of arts and sciences.

Ames, Edward Raymond, educator, foundbishop, wa§ born May 20, 1806, in Athens, Ohio. In 1828 he opened a high school in Lebanon, 111. which in time grew into McKendree college. Here he remained until 1830; er,

when he

joined the Indiana methodist episcopal conference and became an itinerant minister aJid in 1853 became a bishop. He died April 25, 1879, in Baltimore, Md. Ames, Mrs. Ellen Maria, journalist, author, was born Oct. 1, 1831, in Warren, R.I. Under the pen name of Eleanor Kirk she has.