Ames, Mary Clemmer – Ancona, Sydenham E
Ames, Mary Clemmer
(Mrs. Hud- son), author, was born in 1839 in Utica, N. Y. She was intimate with Alice and Phoebe Cary, whose biographies she wrote. She published monographs on Charles Sumner, Margaret Fuller, George Eliot, Emerson, and Longfellow. She wrote three novels, Victoria; Eirene; and His Two Wives; Ten Years in Washington; Outlines of Men, Women and Things; and a volume of poems. In 1883 she married Edmund Hudson, editor and proprietor of the Army and Navy Register. She died Aug. 18, 1884, in Washington, D. C.
Ames, Nathan P
manufacturer, was born in 1803. He commenced the cutlery business in 1829. In 1834 the Ames manufacturing company was incorporated, with N. P. Ames as agent. This company has supplied the United States government with swords since 1831. In 1840 he visited Europe to inspect foreign armories, and acquire information in regard to tools, cutlery, and improvements in arms. In 1836 the bronze foundry was erected, which has become the most famous in the United States. Since its erection nearly all the brass guns made for the American army have been cast at this establishment.
Here the celebrated statues of De Witt Clinton, in Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn; Washington, in Union square, N. Y., and that of Franklin, in School street, Boston, were cast. In 1854 the British government ordered of this company a complete set of the machines for perfecting the stock of the musket. They are now in use at the government armory near Woolwich, England. He died April 23, 1847, in Cabotville, Mass.
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.
Ames, Oakes
manufacturer, congressman, was born Jan. 10, 1804, in Easton, Mass. He received a public-school education; was engaged in manufacturing and largely engaged in railroads; and was elected a member of the executive council of Massachusetts in 1860 and 1861.
He was elected to the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and fortysecond congresses as a republican. He died May 8, 1873, in North Easton, Mass.
Ames, Oakes Angier
manufacturer, banker, was born April 15, 1829, in Easton, Mass. This successful manufacturer and financier is the president of the Oliver Ames and Sons corporation of North Easton, Mass., an institution which has a national reputation as manufacturers of shovels, spades, and hardware specialties. He is president of the North Easton savings bank; vicepresident of the Easton national bank; director of the Lincoln national bank of Boston; director of the Kenily iron and machine company of Canton; director of the Washington Mills emery company; president of the Ames security register company; and trustee of the state lunatic hospital at Taunton. Mr. Ames is an influential man in manufacturing and financial circles in the New England states.
Ames, Oliver
soldier, manufacturer, governor, was born Feb. 4, 1831, in North Easton, Mass. Entering early the great shovel manufactory, he acquired a mastery of the business, and contributed numerous inventions to the processes of the manufacture. In 1880-61 he was elected a member of the Massachusetts senate; and in 1882 lieutenant-governor of the state. In 1886 he was elected governor, and re-elected in 1887-88.
Ames, Samuel
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Sept. 6, 1806, in Providence, R. I. He was prepared for college at Phillips Andover academy, and was graduated at Brown in 1823. After graduation he attended the law lectures of Judge Gould at Litchfield, Conn., and became a member of the Rhode Island bar in 1826. He served in the Providence city council; was for many years in the state assembly; and was elected speaker of that body in 1844 and 1845. In 1853 he was appointed by the legislature to represent the state in adjusting the boundary between Rhode Island and Massachusetts. In 1855 he was one of the commissioners to revise the statutes of Rhode Island, a work that was completed in 1857 mainly under his supervision. He was elected chief justice of the state supreme court in May, 1856, and resigned the office in November, 1865, because of failing health. He was a delegate to the peace convention in 1861. The law books of which he was author or editor are: Agnell and Ames on Corporations, and Rhode Island Reports, volumes 4 to 7. He died Dec. 20, 1865, in Providence, R. I.
Ames, Will L
soldier, legislator, was born in Petersboro, N. H. He was educated at Phillips Exeter academy, N. H.; enlisted in the first New Hampshire cavalry in 1863, and served during the war under Generals Custer and Sheridan. He resided twelve years in Seattle, and served three years as city treasurer of that city. In 1897 he became a member of the Washington state legislature.
Amherst, J. H
actor, dramatist, was born in 1776 in London, England. He came to the United States in 1838 as director of Cook's equestrian company; and first acted as the Castilian in Mazeppa in Philadelphia. He was an accomplished classical scholar, and the author of several plays, of which the following are the best known: Will Watch, or the Black Phantom; Napoleon Bonaparte's Invasion of Russia, or the Conflagration of Moscow; Ireland as It Was; The Battle of Waterloo; and Ireland as It Is. He died Aug. 12, 1851, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Amies, Olive Pond
educator, lecturer, was born in Jordan, N. Y. She has attained eminence as a successful teacher; has given model lessons at conventions and institutes; and for many years was in constant demand in the county teachers' institutes in the states of New York and Maine. She founded the training school for teachers in Lewiston, Maine; has held state positions in the Woman's Christian Temperance union and the Woman's Suffrage association; and delivers lectures on different themes connected with these organizations. In 1871 she was married to the Rev. J. H. Amies, an eminent clergyman of the universalist church.
Ammen, Daniel
naval officer, author, was born May 15, 1820, in Brown county, Ohio. He was chief of the naval bureau of navigation in 1870-78; and was sent to the so-called Paris canal congress in 1879. At the close of the civil war he designed the Ammen Life Raft, which saved the lives of more than half the crew of the Kearsarge when she was wrecked on a reef. He is the author of The Atlantic During the Civil War; The Old Navy and the New; Recollections of Grant; and various other papers.
Ammen, Jacob
soldier, was born Jan. 7, 1808, in Virginia. He was graduated at West Point in 1831, and served there as assistant instructor in mathematics, and afterward of infantry tactics. He was promoted to be brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862.
Ammidown, Edward Holmes
merchant, author, was born Oct. 28, 1820, in Southbridge, Mass. He has been director of the Importers' and Traders' bank; the United States life insurance company; and the Dundee water-power company. He is the author of Historical Collections.
Amory, Estelle Mendell
educator, author, was born June 3, 1845, in Ellisburgh, N. Y. In 1868 she graduated. from Falley seminary, and has attained success in educational work. Her literary productions consist mainly of domestic articles, short stories for children, essays on living themes, and occasional poems.
Amory, Robert
physician, author, was born May 2, 1842, in Boston, Mass.
He was appointed in 1869 lecturer at Harvard college on the physiological action of drugs, and was afterward professor of physiology in the medical school at Bowdoin college, but resigned this chair in 1874. He is a member of several societies of medical science, and has published Bromides of Potassium and Ammonium, and Action of Nitrous Oxide, and has contributed to periodicals important papers.
Amory, Thomas Coffin
lawyer, author, was born Oct. 16, 1812, in Boston, Mass. He was the author of Life of James Sullivan, Governor of Massachusetts; Military Services of Major-General John Sullivan; and Life of Sir Isaac Coffin. He died Aug. 20, 1889, in Boston, Mass.
Amory, Thomas J. C
general, was. born about 1830 in Massachusetts. He was graduated at West Point in 1851, and served on garrison and frontier duty in the Utah expedition, and on recruiting service until 1861, when he became colonel of the seventeenth Massachusetts volunteers. He was brevetted brigadiergeneral of volunteers. He died Oct. 8, 1864, in Newbern, N. C.
Amundson, John A
lawyer, was born April 2, 1856, in Madison, Wis. He is a lawyer of New York city, and is known for his sterling integrity, thorough preparation, and distinguished talents as an advocate, and as learned in the law.
Anagnos, Mrs. Julia Romana
author, was born in 1844. She was a. daughter of Dr. S. G. and Julia Ward Howe, and wife of M. Anagnos, the 'superintendent of the Perkins institute for the blind in Boston. She is the author of Stray Chords, a volume of verse; and Philosophiæ Questor. She died in 1886.
Ancona, Sydenham E
congressman, was born Nov. 20, 1824, in Warwick, Pa. Removing to Berks county, he was for several years connected with the Reading railroad company; in 1860 was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-seventh congress; was re-elected to the thirty-eighth and thirtyninth congresses. He was one of the representatives designated by the house to attend the funeral of General Scott in