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Alvord, Benjamin – Ames, Nathaniel

Alvord, Benjamin

soldier, author, was born Aug. 18, 1813, in Rutland, Vt.

He was a United States officer who served in the Mexican and civil wars; and was the author of Tangencies of Circles and Spheres; and Interpretation of Imaginary Roots in Questions of Maxima and Minima. He died Oct. 16, 1884, in Washington, D. C.

Alvord, James C

lawyer, legislator, was a native of Massachusetts. He adopted the profession of the law; served one term in each branch of the state legislature; and was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the twenty-sixth congress, but died in the latter part of 1839, before taking his seat.

Ambler, William E

lawyer, state senator, jurist, was born Dec. 18, 1845, in Medina, Ohio. Since 1868 he has practiced law in Pentwater, Mich. He has been president of the village, and a member of Neilsen and Company, bankers. He was elected senator in the state legislature in 1878; was re-elected in 1880; and was president pro tem of the senate during his last term. He subsequently became judge of probate for Oceana county.

Ambrose, James W

civil engineer, legislator, was born Jan. 3, 1826, in Industry, Maine. He became a member of the Maine state legislature in 1883. For eighteen years he was commissioner, and is a successful farmer and legislator.

Ambrose, John L

organist, singer, composer, was born in 1844, in Sandwich, N. H. He has composed church music and has prepared a book of Male Quartettes for the work of the Masonic lodge.

Ames, Charles Gordon

clergyman, author, was born in 1828, in Massachusetts. He is a unitarian clergyman and pastor of the church of the disciples in Boston. He is the author of George Eliot's Two Marriages; As Natural as Life; and Studies of the Inner Kingdom.

Ames, Edward Raymond

educator, bishop, was born May 20, 1806, in Athens, Ohio. He studied for two years at the Ohio state university, and in 1828 opened a high school at Lebanon, Ill., which in time grew into McKendree college. Here he remained until 1830, when he joined the Indiana methodist episcopal conference and became an itinerant minister, and in 1852 became a bishop.

He died April 25, 1879, in Baltimore, Md.

Ames, Eleanor Maria

journalist, author, was born in 1830. Under the pen name of Eleanor Kirk she has published a number of books; and she is also the proprietor of a magazine entitled Eleanor Kirk's Idea, which is published in Brooklyn, N. Y. She is the author of Up Broadway and Its Sequel; Information for Authors; and Perpetual Youth.

Ames, Fanny B

industrial reformer, lecturer, was born June 14, 1840, in Canandaigua, N. Y. Her first experience in practical work was gained in military hospitals during the war. In 1863 she was married to the Rev. Charles G. Ames.

She has been the president of the children's aid society; was for two years president of the new country club of Philadelphia; and in 1891 was appointed factory inspector in Massachusetts.

Ames, Joseph

painter, was born Sept. 6, 1816, in Roxbury, N. H. His bestknown pictures are portraits of Ristori, Prescott, Emerson, Rachel, and President Felton, of Harvard, and Gazzaniga.

Among his ideal paintings are: Miranda; Night; Morning; The Death of Webster; and Maud Muller. He died Oct. 30, 1872, in New York.

Ames, Nathaniel

physician, author, was born in 1708 in Bridgewater, Mass. He was a physician of Dedham, Mass., who published in 1725-64, an Astronomical Diary and Almanac which contained much shrewd humor and original philosophy and was widely popular. He died July 11, 1764, in Dedham, Mass.