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AMES was born at Niles, Michigan, January 29, 1841. He was the son of Charles Porter
and Jeanette (Sergeant) Ames. In 1842 the Ames family removed from Niles to Haverhill,
Massachusetts, and the year following this removal the father of our classmate died, and the
guardianship of the child was assumed by his grandfather, Deacon Ames, of Haverhill. He
was prepared for college in the Haverhill High School, and entered our Class in the autumn
of 1859. At the end of the first year, by reason of ill health, Ames was compelled to rest
a year, consequently he dropped out of our Class and joined the Class of 1864 at the
opening of its Sophomore year, with which he was graduated with honor rank. He received
the appointment of philosophical oration on the Commencement program. He also was
elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity. While in college he joined the
'Logian Literary Society and served as one of its officers. After graduation he became assistant
librarian, and in a short time assistant professor of mathematics, in the United States Naval
Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. Three years later, in 1867, he engaged in hardware
business and continued in that line till the spring of 1870, when he connected himself with
a company engaged in the manufacture of stoves, and remained with this firm until his
decease. He died of heart disease December 17, 1880, in the fortieth year of his age. July 18, 1867, Ames married Miss Ada G.
Chipman, of Jackson. They had two children,
a son and a daughter, who, with their mother, survived our classmate's death.
Source:
Class of Sixty-Three, Williams College Fortieth Year Report by
the Class Historian, Thomas Todd Printer, Boston, 1903.
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