Edward Raymond Ames, son of Sylvanus Ames, II and Abigail Nabby Lee Ames, typifies the Ames line. His outstanding character, devotion to his religion and his country, and his intellect, set him apart early in life. Here are the stories I have collected. Some of this is repetitive, so make allowances! My thanks to all who have sent me copies of them over the last ten years.

Mary McGarr
Sylvanus Ames, II, John Lee Ames, Elizabeth Watson Ames Carlisle, Missouri Alice Carlisle Knight, Clark Knight, Mary Knight McGarr

Descendants of Edward Raymond Ames


Generation No. 1

1. EDWARD RAYMOND13 Ames (SYLVANUS12, SYLVANUS11, THOMAS10, THOMAS WILLIAM9, JOHN8, WILLIAM7, JOHN "RICHARD"6, JOHN5, JOHN4, WILLIAM AMES3 EAMES, JAMES2 IV, HENRY1 STEWART) was born 20 May 1806 in Ames Township, Athens County, OH, and died 25 Apr 1879 in Baltimore, Baltimore County, MD. He married (1) MAHALLA HANSON. She was born 1807 in Kentucky. He married (2) HENRIETTA BEACH 01 Jan 1834 in Jeffersonville, Clark Co., IN, daughter of SAMUEL BEACH and ANNA DARRAH. She was born 28 Aug 1808 in Hanover, NJ, and died 21 Apr 1846 in New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana.

Edward R. Ames
by Frances Ames

History of Hocking Valley, Ohio
Chicago:
INTER-STATE PUBLISHING CO.
1883

Edward R. Ames, D.D., a native of Ames Township, Athens Co., Ohio, born May 20, 1806, was a son of Judge Sylvanus Ames. His early education was plain and practical. A natural taste for reading was fostered by a local library to which he had free access, and when twenty years of age he entered the Ohio University at Athens.

There he remained many years, supporting himself mainly by teaching. In 1828 the Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church met at Chillicothe, and he attended its meetings. Bishop Roberts, the presiding officer, was so impressed with the young man's appearance that he invited him to accompany him to the Illinois Conference at Madison, ILL. He there made the acquaintance of several prominent Methodist clergymen, and opend a school at Lebanon, ILL., which was the germ of McKendree College.

In August, 1830, entered the itinerant ministry, and was licensed to preach by the Rev. Peter Cartwright. He was sent to the Shoal Creek Circuit, which covered an almost unlimited territory, and when the Indiana Conference was organized, in 1832, he went with the new Conference, and was ordained a Deacon by Bishop Soule. In 1834, he was ordanied an Elder by Bishop Roberts, and was employed in several fields of labor, including two years spent in St. Louis, Mo., till 1840. He was that year appointed a delegate to the General Conference in Baltimore, and was by that body elected Corresponding Secretary of the Missionary Society for the South and West.

He was the first Chaplain ever elected by an Indian Council, having served the Choctaw General Council in that capacity in 1842. In 1848 he was elected President of the Asbury University, Indiana, but declined the honor. In the General Conference in 1852, he was elected Bishop together with Bishops Scott and Simpson; and he was the first Methodist who ever visited the Pacific Coast. When the question of the seperation of the Methodists came up in 1844, he opposed the division, and afterward did all he could to foster a fraternal spirit. When the ecclesiastical property of the Methodist Epicopal Church South was confiscated for the time being, he was commissioned by President Lincoln and Secretry Stanton to take charge of it.

This was a most delicate duty, and in its performance he visited New Orleans and other Southern Cities, organizing societies and appointing white and colored preachers. During the twenty-seven years in which Bishop Ames was in the episcopacy, his whole public life was marked by a strict adherence to the rules and discipline of Methodism, and even when the most difficult points came up for settlement he displayed a far-seeing judgement and quickness of apprehension, which enabled him to grapple successfully with them.

Although grave and dignified in manner, there was a magnetism about him which attracted, and his preaching was always thoroughly enjoyed. He could scarcely be styled an orator, and yet his quiet reasoning, apt aphorisms, pertinent illustrations and earnestness, impressed more than mere declamation. He died at Baltimore, Md., April 25, 1879. He had been twice married, and left a son and two daughters.--Appleton's Annual, 1879.

Together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships,
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history, portraits of prominent persons, and biographies of representative citizens.
Many thanks to Fran Ames for this contribution!


Edward Raymond Ames (wife Mahala Hanson)He was Born 20 May 1806 Amesville, Ohio and died 25 April 1879 Baltimore Maryand. He is buried in the Greenmont Cemetery. He was a Bishop and chaplin in the Civil War (North). His parents were Sylvanus O. Ames and Nabby Lee Johnson.

This is from the Jim Ames genealogy series.

Edward Raymond Ames

AMES, Edward Raymond, bishop, born in Athens, Ohio, 20 May 1806; died in Baltimore, 25 April 1879. He studied for two years at the Ohio State University, and m 1828 opened a high school at Lebanon, Illinois, 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. At the general conference for 1840 he was chosen corresponding secretary of the missionary society, and rode through the South and West and among the Indian tribes, a distance of more than 25,000 miles. He was a presiding elder from 1844 to 1852, and was then chosen bishop. He was the first Methodist bishop to visit the Pacific coast. During the civil war he rendered important service as a member of several commissions.

Edward Raymond Ames

1806-1879


Born: May 20, 1806 in Massachusetts, United States

Died: April 25, 1879
Occupation: Bishop Methodist

Source Database: Dictionary of American Biography

BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY
Ames, Edward Raymond (May 20, 1806 - Apr. 25, 1879), Methodist and bishop, was a descendant of William Ames, who came to Braintree, Mass., from England in 1643. His grandfather, Sylvanus, was a graduate of Harvard in the class of 1767, and died at Valley Forge while serving as chaplain in Washington's army. Edward's father, also Sylvanus, was born in Bridgewater, Mass., in 1771, and in 1795 married Nabby Lee Johnson. Two years later they migrated westward and finally settled in what is now Adams County, Ohio, at a place later called Amesville. Here Edward was born and amid rough frontier conditions was reared. His father soon became a leader in the county, serving as sheriff, colonel of the militia, trustee of Ohio University, representative in the legislature, and, from 1813 to 1823, associate judge. In his home, which was the resort of the politicians of southern Ohio and a favorite stopping place for public men on their long trips from East to West, young Ames had opportunity to see many prominent people and hear much about the political movements of the day. His formal education was meager, but he made good use of the local Western Library Association, later the Coonskin Library, said to have been the first public library founded in the Northwest Territory, though not the first incorporated, in which his father was one of the original stockholders. For two or three years he attended Ohio University, supporting himself by teaching and other work. While there, Bishop Robert R. Roberts induced him to attend a session of the Illinois Methodist Conference, and here he met two men who persuaded him to open a seminary at Lebanon. The school was a success, and was the beginning of McKendree College. In 1830 he joined the Illinois Conference, and became an itinerant minister. Ten years later the General Conference elected him corresponding secretary of the Missionary Society for the South and West. During the four years that he filled this office he traveled some 25,000 miles. On one trip he passed over the entire frontier from Lake Superior to Texas, camping out during almost the entire trip, at one period, it is said, so destitute of provisions that for two days the only nourishment he and his companions had was a little moistened maple sugar (Walker, pp. 422-23). His task was to systematize the missionary work, take an inventory of the property, and obtain land grants from the government for educational work among the Indians. In 1844 he returned to the itinerancy and in 1848 was elected to succeed Matthew Simpson as president of Indiana Asbury University, but declined. In 1852 he was made bishop. His episcopal residence was Indianapolis, and during the Civil War he was energetic in behalf of the Union. He was the only Methodist bishop appointed chaplain in the army, and during the winter of 1861 preached to the soldiers in the various camps. In January 1862, with the Hon. Hamilton Fish, he was appointed by the War Department as commissioner to visit Union prisoners at Richmond and provide for their comfort at the expense of the United States. The appointment of the commission aroused indignation in the South, and Bishop Ames's presence upon it seems to have given special offense. Prof. William W. Sweet quotes from a letter from a Confederate officer, an ex-Methodist minister, to Jefferson Davis, warning him not to allow Ames to enter the lines, characterizing him as an "astute politician, who in the garb of a Christian minister and with the specious plea of 'Humanity' upon his lips, would insinuate himself into the very heart of that Government whose very foundation he would most gladly sap and destroy" (Sweet, p. 154). The commission was not permitted to enter Richmond. Ames had a clear, practical mind and business ability of a high order. He was strong in his convictions, imperious in manner, and sometimes dealt with a heavy hand. His sermons were usually conversational in style, but he was capable of impassioned oratory, and was at his best when addressing the thousands who gathered at Western camp meetings. His talent as an organizer and administrator was of great value to the church. The last years of his life were spent in Baltimore, where he died at the age of seventy-three.

-- J. Wesley Johnston

FURTHER READINGS
[Chas. M. Walker, Hist. of Athens County, Ohio (1869); H. N. Herrick and W. W. Sweet, Hist. of the North Indiana Conference (1917); Wm. W. Sweet, The M. E. Church and Civil War (1912); J. M. Reid, Missions and Missionary Societies of the M. E. Church (1879); Gen. Conf. Jour. (1880); Matthew Simpson, Cyc. of Methodism (1878); Methodist (N. Y.) May 3, 1879.]

Source Citation: "Edward Raymond Ames."Dictionary of American Biography Base Set. American Council of Learned Societies, 1928-1936. Reproduced in History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/HistRC/

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BISHOP Ames.
Right Rev. Edward Raymond Ames, D. D., LL. D., was born in Amesville, Ohio, May 20, 1806, and died in Baltimore, April, 1879. He is known as the "statesman bishop." He was a leader of men. Shortly after he was graduated from Ohio University he founded McKendree College; was ordained a minister at Vincennes, Indiana, in 1830; was made presiding elder and elected a delegate to the General Conference within ten years. At thirty-four he was missionary secretary, the youngest man ever elected to that office. The Choctaw Nation made him their chaplain in 1842. He was the first to hold such an office. The Indians called him "Black Thunder." In 1852 the General Conference elected him bishop and he was the first Methodist bishop to visit California. During the Civil War Bishop Ames was close to Lincoln, who sought his advice on important matters. He served with Hamilton Fish on the first commission appointed to arrange for an exchange of prisoners. He declined the offer of the Democratic party to make him a United States senator and also declined a portfolio in Lincoln's cabinet. Senator Voorhees said that Bishop Ames was a power in Indiana politics long after he removed to Baltimore.

A Wolf Hunt, by Edward Ames
During the greater part of his adult life, Bishop Ames has resided in Indiana, though his official duties have required protracted absences from home, and long journeys to the most distant parts of the country. A few years since he removed to Baltimore, Maryland, which is his present place of residence. Of late years he has frequently visited Athens, where he has relatives living, and where he finds great enjoyment in meeting the friends of his youth, and in recalling early memories. He is very fond of familiar converse, and, in his "hours of ease," talks in the most genial manner, of early reminiscences or of more modern and weighty affairs. During an evening recently passed by the writer in his company, when his boyhood and early life were the topic of speech, he gave, with much amusement, the following account of a wolf hunt:
In 1822 Pitt Putnam, of Marietta, organized a grand wolf hunt, to be held on the head waters of Big run. I suppose Putnam inherited his aversion to wolves from his Massachusetts ancestor, as men sometimes inherit politics or religion; at any rate he seemed to think that he had a call to exterminate wolves. The region fixed on for the hunt lay in Washington county, not far from the borders of Ames, and a great many of the male inhabitants of Ames and Bern took part in it. A space about four miles square was surveyed in the heart of the forest, and marked all the way around by blazing the trees. General notice was given some weeks beforehand through the newspaper printed at Marietta, and I remember that a rude diagram of the country and of the line of battle was published. The plan of proceeding was well organized. The hunters were to be stationed at regular distances from each other, all the way around the tract, some supplied with guns and others with horns. Certain men were appointed captains, lieutenants, etc., and gave orders to those nearest them. On the appointed day the hunters assembled from all directions, and were soon placed. I was then only sixteen years old, and was more highly excited over the affair than I am apt to become over any event now-a-days. When all was ready, the men stationed, armed, etc., a horn was blown by the leader, and the signal in a few minutes passed around the whole circuit; whereupon they all began to march toward a common center, keeping in line. Each man was ordered to make as great a hubbub as possible, those with horns to blow them and the rest to shout and halloo. I was a pretty well grown boy of my age, and was allowed to march with the rest. Furnished with a tin horn nearly as long as myself, I blew such blasts as would, I suppose, have shaken down the walls of Jericho, if they had been there, and blew till I had no strength to blow any more. The object of the noise, hooting, blowing horns and beating bushes was to scare up the wolves, and drive them before us, and, of course, when the poor doomed wolves had been thus driven closer and closer to a common center by the contracting lines, the purpose was to slay them ruthlessly, by the hundreds, that is, if they were there. As we drew near the center, where there was a running brook and a cave in the rocks, the excitement increased. Soon wild animals of different sorts were seen darting about. There were deer in considerable numbers, and though in poor condition, as I remember, a great many were killed. In their fright and eagerness to escape, they ran directly at the lines of hunters, and I saw some of them leap clear over the heads of the men. Foxes were numerous too, and a good many were killed, with smaller game of different sorts. But we were after wolves; and after all our marching and hallooing, and beating of bushes, my recollection is that not a single wolf was captured or killed-or, if any, only one or two-and the whole affair was a laughable failure, so far as the wolf part was concerned. I think I have never wasted so much breath to so little profit as I did in blowing that tin horn. I walked home a tired boy, and very skeptical as to Pitt Putnam's having any great inspiration as a wolf hunter.

Ames, Athens County, Ohio Genealogy

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Edward R. Ames, third son of Silvanus Ames, was born in Ames township, May 2o, 1806, on the farm now owned by James and George Henry. His early education, though limited, was healthful and solid, and, while still a youth, having access to the local library in Amesville, he formed a taste for reading that has largely influenced the conduct of his life. At the age of twenty he left his father's farm to attend the Ohio university at Athens, where he remained some two or three years, mainly supporting himself, meanwhile, by teaching and other chance employments. While at college he became a member of the Methodist church.

In the autumn of 1828 the late Bishop Roberts presided over the Ohio conference of the Methodist church, which was held at Chillicothe. To see their manner of doing business, and to obtain some knowledge as to the growth of the church, the young collegian attended the session. Bishop Roberts, who had a rare discernment of men, saw the youth and that there was something more than ordinary in him. The result of their acquaintance was, that, acting on the advice of the bishop to "go west," young Ames accompanied him a few weeks later to the Illinois conference, held that year in Madison, Indiana. Here he made further acquaintance with active Methodists from the western states, and, at their suggestion, he proceeded to Illinois and opened a high school at Lebanon, in the present county of St. Clair. He had fine success as a teacher, and remained here, making friends and influence, till 1830. In the autumn of this year he was licensed to preach by the Illinois conference, and was admitted and appointed to Shoal Creek circuit, embracing an indefinite extent of country.

Thenceforward, for some years, his was the usual history of a Methodist itinerant. He was elected as a delegate from the Indiana conference to the general conference, which met in Baltimore in 1840, and, by that body, was elected corresponding secretary of the missionary society for the south and west. This was before the days of railroads. Traveling was slow and difficult, and the labors of his office were arduous and wide extended. During the four years that he filled it, he traveled some twenty-five thousand miles. In one tour he passed over the entire frontier line, from Lake Superior to Texas, camping out almost the whole route, and one part of the time so destitute of provisions that, for two days, the only nourishment of himself and fellow travelers, was a little moistened maple sugar.

In 1859 he was elected one of the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church, since when his official labors have been most onerous, responsible, and unremitting. Possessed of extraordinary capacity for business, and of great physical endurance, no task appals, and apparently no amount of labor fatigues him. His character and talents are so well known, both in and out of the church, as to render any analysis or description of them unnecessary in this place.

Bishop Ames is esteemed one of the most eloquent preachers in the Methodist church, as he certainly is one of the most popular. A well known minister and editor of the church says:

"As a conference debater he was always effective. We often met in the conference room, but never did we hear him make a speech ten minutes long. He listened to the discussion till he saw the strong points of a case, and these he would present in a few clear, terse statements, which could not be misunderstood, and which went far toward conviction. As a public speaker he is impressive and commanding, whether on the platform or in the pulpit. His voice is quite peculiar, and while under his management it is quite effective, yet it should never be imitated. He rises calmly, states his subject clearly, introduces it with some striking remark, which at once rivets the attention, and then by an easy, direct manner, moves along the track of thought chosen for the occasion. His sermons, though never written, are evidently carefully thought out. His style is molded by the old English classics. Many of his sentences are pure aphorisms. On he talks, till he talks up into the highest realm of thought. We think perhaps his most effective preaching was when he was presiding elder, and addressed gathered thousands on western camp grounds. Then we have seen his whole soul aroused, and his full tide of impassioned oratory was almost resistless. We forbear sketching some of those scenes, though they pass before us."

During the greater part of his adult life, Bishop Ames has resided in Indiana, though his official duties have required protracted absences from home, and long journeys to the most distant parts of the country. A few years since he removed to Baltimore, Maryland, which is his present place of residence. Of late years he has frequently visited Athens, where he has relatives living, and where he finds great enjoyment in meeting the friends of his youth, and in recalling early memories. He is very fond of familiar converse, and, in his "hours of ease," talks in the most genial manner, of early reminiscences or of more modern and weighty affairs. During an evening recently passed by the writer in his company, when his boyhood and early life were the topic of speech, he gave, with much amusement, the following account of a wolf hunt.

On a visit to Washington, D. C. in October of 2006, Mary McGarr ( grand niece of Edward Raymond Ames), stopped in at the headquarters of the United Methodist Church. She asked if there might be any documentation or biographical information about Edward. She was given a copy of the Council of Bishops "Lines of Ordination" May 2006 edition which includes the fact that Edward was elected in 1852 and ordained by Robert Richford Roberts.

BISHOP EDWARD RAYMOND Ames
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Bishop Ames

The effort to put a man of the size and style of Bishop Ames into a book, is a difficult, if not a hopeless, task. There is so much of him, in so many different directions, that one who knew and loved him finds himself discouraged at every step. Perhaps no better thing has been said in few words in honor of his memory than this sentence with which the Rev. Dr. Fowler concludes a tribute to his memory in the editorial columns of " The Christian Advocate:" "Bishop Ames was truly a great man, and the Church will be lonesome without him."

Edward Raymond Ames was of good Puritan stock. His grandfather, the Rev. Sylvanus Ames was a Massachusetts man, a graduate of Harvard College, and a pastor at Taunton, Mass. During the war of the Revolution he was a chaplain in Washington's army, and died in camp at Valley Forge in that terrible winter of 1778-79. His son, the father of the Bishop, settled at Amesville, Ohio, where Edward Raymond Ames was born of the 20th of May, 1806. During his student life at the University of Ohio he experienced the grace of God, and was received into the Methodist Episcopal Church. Among his associates at that time may be mentioned the distinguished names of Rev. H.J. Clark, Rev. J. M. Tremble, Rev. E. H. Pilcher, E. W. Sehon, and other young men, who afterward obtained distinction in the Church. In 1830 he was licensed to preach by that remarkable man Peter Cartwright, and during the same year he was received on trial by the Illinois Conference. In 1832, on the division of this Conference, he was assigned to that portion of it which was designated the Indiana Conference, as a member of which he was ordained deacon by Bishop Soule, and elder by Bishop Roberts. In 1840 he was chosen a delegate to the General Conference held in Baltimore, and was elected Corresponding Secetery of the Missionary Society, holding also the position of Superintendent of the German and Indian Missions of the Church, in which capacity he traveled over twenty-four thousand miles during the four years of his secretaryship, traversing the whole Indian Territory from Texas to Lake Superior, and camping out in various Indian Tribes he learned to speak the Chocktaw language. He was absolutely without fear, and traveled among friendly and hostile Indians, often alone, most of the time with only a single companion. He was the first chaplain eve relected by an Indian Council, in which capacity he served in the Choctaw General Council of 1842, where, at their request, he drew up the School Law of the Choctaw Nation, a noble bill, by the provision of which a larger sum was appropriated for education, per capita, than in any State of the Union. The confidence reposed in him, and in his knowledge of Indian character, was often shown during the presidencies of Lincoln and Grant, by whom he was often solicited to serve on Indian Commissions, but which honor, from press of other duties, he was obliged to decline.

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Date 1800'S
Location Athens, Ohio, USA
Attached to Edward Raymond "Bishop" Ames (1806 - 1879)

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When I was in Washington, D. C. two years ago, I was walking down the street after visiting the Capitol Building and noticed a place that said it was the national headquarters (or something like that) of the Methodist Church. So I went in and inquired if they had any historical records on former Bishops. They wanted to know why I wanted to know, and when I told them, they fell all over themselves wanting to help. Long story shortened, they gave me some historical brochures that showed Bishop Ames' place in the scheme of things. The lady who helped me noted that he was the "first Bishop appointed by Bishop Asbury." If you're a Methodist (and I'm a back-sliding one) you know that Francis Asbury was a very prominent Methodist. She said it to me like she meant to convey that it was important. Made me feel good that I was related to him! Also, don't forget that Edward had TWO grandfathers who graduated from Harvard in 1767. Daniel Johnson, III also graduated from Harvard and was a classmate of Sylvanus Ames. A Bachelor's degree from Harvard in those days meant that one was trained religiously. After three years (I think) Harvard then awarded these graduates a Master's degree also. Harvard graduates became ministers, usually Episcopal, in the community they served and were considered leaders of that community. Thanks for putting up this information about Bishop Ames. Mary McGarr

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Location Athens, Ohio, USA
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The brochure that included Bishop Ames that I alluded to is: Council of Bishops "Lines of Ordination" May 2006 edition which includes the fact that Edward was elected in 1852 and ordained by Robert Richford Roberts.
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1870 United States Federal Census
about Ed R Ames
Name: Ed R Ames
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1806
Age in 1870: 64
Birthplace: Ohio
Home in 1870: Baltimore Ward 12, Baltimore (Independent City), Maryland
Race: White
Gender: Male
Post Office: Baltimore
Household Members: Name Age
Mahalla Ames 63
Ed R Ames 64 Property valued at $25,000, personal property valued at $10,000. Was living here while the Bishop.
Laura Ames 30 Daughter born in Indiana
Daffney Ames 66 --Servant -born in Maryland
Anna McGrann 31 --Servant from Ireland

Name: Edward Raymond Ames
Birth - Death: 1806-1879
Source Citation:
Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Six volumes. Edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1888- 1889. (ApCAB)
Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 1: January, 1946-July, 1949. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1949. (BioIn 1)
The Encyclopedia of World Methodism. Two volumes. Edited by Nolan B. Harmon. Nashville, TN: United Methodist Publishing House, 1974. (EncWM) Biography contains portrait.
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Volume 3. New York: James T. White & Co., 1891. Use the Index to locate biographies. (NatCAB 3)
The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Brief biographies of authors, administrators, clergymen, commanders, editors, engineers, jurists, merchants, officials, philanthropists, scientists, statesmen, and others who are making American history. 10 volumes. Edited by Rossiter Johnson. Boston: The Biographical Society, 1904. (TwCBDA)
Who Was Who in America. A component volume of Who's Who in American History. Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Revised Edition. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1967. (WhAm HS)

1850 United States Federal Census
about Nichola Ames (Name is interpreted incorrectly--it is Mahala)
Name: Nichola Ames
Age: 46
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1804
Birth Place: Kentucky
Gender: Female
Home in 1850(City,County,State): Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana
Household Members: Name Age
E R Ames 44
Nichola Ames 46 (Mahala)
Ann Ames 15
Lora A Ames 11
E R Ames 6
Christina Ames 19 (1831 Germany) Servant

1860 United States Federal Census
about Edward Ames
Name: Edward Ames
Age in 1860: 34
Birth Year: abt 1826
Birthplace: Ohio
Home in 1860: Centre North Part, Marion, Indiana
Gender: Male
Post Office: Indianapolis
Value of real estate: View image
Household Members: Name Age
Edward Ames 34 (incorrect age)
Mahala Ames 54
Laura Ames 18
Edward Ames 16
Ida DeStiger 11
Christian Rosenbaum 23 (Laborer from Germany)
Jane Balin 25 Servant

Notes for MAHALLA:
May be Mahala.
Posted by: Julie (ID *****9702) Date: August 18, 2002 at 20:22:40
In Reply to: Re: Edward Raymond Ames , Bishop (1806- ) by John Ames of 1574


Edward Raymond Ames (wife Mahala ______)He was Born 20 May 1806 Amesville, Ohio and died 25 April 1879 Baltimore Maryand. He is buried in the Greenmont Cemetery. He was a Bishop and chaplin in the Civil War (North). His parents were Sylvanus O. Ames and Nabby Lee Johnson.

This is from the Jim Ames genealogy series.

AMES, BEACH, BIGELOW
Author: Richard Brown Date: 26 Aug 1997 12:00 PM GMT
Surnames: Ames, BEACH, BIGELOW
Samuel BEACH Looking for identity of the wife (who may have been called Anna) of Samuel BEACH. Samuel BEACH (son of Isaac BEACH and Mary BIGELOW) was born 7 Nov 1774, Troy, Morris County, New Jersey, and married. Their daughter Henrietta BEACH was born 8 or 28 August 1808 at Hanover NJ. They moved to Indiana between the birth of Henrietta and her marriage to Edward Raymond Ames.
Re: Ames, BEACH, BIGELOW
Author: Richard Brown Date: 22 Aug 2004 9:07 AM GMT

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Thanks for that Mary. Since my posting I found that Anna BEACH was indeed previously married to Thomas Darrah, so I am now looking for her maiden name. Many Darrahs lived in and around Sussex County NJ (where she married Samuel BEACH) at that time, but I can't find Thomas or their marriage.
Her children with BEACH were:
William Darrah BEACH born ca. 1800 at Easton, PA.
Samuel Fowler BEACH born December 1800
Sally Ann BEACH born 28 April 1808
Henrietta BEACH born 28 August 1808 at Hanover NJ
She died 8 April 1822 at JEFFERSONVILLE, Indiana

Thanks again,

Richard Brown
May have died April 8, 1822 at Jeffersonville, Indiana (RIchard Brown)

She attended the Moravian School at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania from 1823 to 1825.
History of Hocking Valley, Ohio
Chicago:
INTER-STATE PUBLISHING CO.
1883



Edward R. Ames, D.D., a native of Ames Township, Athens Co., Ohio, born May 20, 1806, was a son of Judge Sylvanus Ames. His early education was plain and practical. A natural taste for reading was fostered by a local library to which he had free access, and when twenty years of age he entered the Ohio University at Athens.

There he remained many years, supporting himself mainly by teaching. In 1828 the Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church met at Chillicothe, and he attended its meetings. Bishop Roberts, the presiding officer, was so impressed with the young man's appearance that he invited him to accompany him to the Illinois Conference at Madison, ILL. He there made the acquaintance of several prominent Methodist clergymen, and opend a school at Lebanon, ILL., which was the germ of McKendree College.

In August, 1830, entered the itinerant ministry, and was licensed to preach by the Rev. Peter Cartwright. He was sent to the Shoal Creek Circuit, which covered an almost unlimited territory, and when the Indiana Conference was organized, in 1832, he went with the new Conference, and was ordained a Deacon by Bishop Soule. In 1834, he was ordanied an Elder by Bishop Roberts, and was employed in several fields of labor, including two years spent in St. Louis, Mo., till 1840. He was that year appointed a delegate to the General Conference in Baltimore, and was by that body elected Corresponding Secretary of the Missionary Society for the South and West.

He was the first Chaplain ever elected by an Indian Council, having served the Choctaw General Council in that capacity in 1842. In 1848 he was elected President of the Asbury University, Indiana, but declined the honor. In the General Conference in 1852, he was elected Bishop together with Bishops Scott and Simpson; and he was the first Methodist who ever visited the Pacific Coast. When the question of the seperation of the Methodists came up in 1844, he opposed the division, and afterward did all he could to foster a fraternal spirit. When the ecclesiastical property of the Methodist Epicopal Church South was confiscated for the time being, he was commissioned by President Lincoln and Secretry Stanton to take charge of it.

This was a most delicate duty, and in its performance he visited New Orleans and other Southern Cities, organizing societies and appointing white and colored preachers. During the twenty-seven years in which Bishop Ames was in the episcopacy, his whole public life was marked by a strict adherence to the rules and discipline of Methodism, and even when the most difficult points came up for settlement he displayed a far-seeing judgement and quickness of apprehension, which enabled him to grapple successfully with them.

Although grave and dignified in manner, there was a magnetism about him which attracted, and his preaching was always thoroughly enjoyed. He could scarcely be styled an orator, and yet his quiet reasoning, apt aphorisms, pertinent illustrations and earnestness, impressed more than mere declamation. He died at Baltimore, Md., April 25, 1879. He had been twice married, and left a son and two daughters.--Appleton's Annual, 1879.



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Thomas Coke 1784
Francis Asbury 1784
Richard Whatcoat 1800
Phillip William Otterbein 1800
Martin Boehm 1800
Jacob Albright 1807
William M'Kendree 1808
Christian Newcomer 1813
Enoch George 1816
Robert Richford Roberts 1816
Andrew Zeller 1817
Joseph Hoffman 1821
Joshua Soule 1824
Elijah Hedding 1824
Henry Kumler Sr. 1825
John Emory 1832
James Osgood Andrew 1832
Samuel Heistand 1833
William Brown 1833
Beverly Waugh 1836
Thomas Asbury Morris 1836
Jacob Erb 1837
John Seybert 1839
Henry Kumler Jr. 1841
John Coons 1841
Joseph Long 1843
Leonidas Lent Hamline 1844
Edmund Storer Janes 1844
John Russel 1845
Jacob John Glossbrenner 1845
William Hanby 1845
William Capers 1846
Robert Paine 1846
David Edwards 1849
Henry Bidleman Bascom 1850
Levi Scott 1852
Matthew Simpson 1852
Osman Cleander Baker 1852
*Edward Raymond Ames 1852*
Lewis Davis 1853
George Foster Pierce 1854
John Early 1854
Hubbard Hinde Kavanaugh 1854
Francis Burns 1858
William W. Orwig 1859
Jacob Markwood 1861
Daniel Shuck 1861
John Jacob Esher 1863
Davis Wasgatt Clark 1864
Edward Thomson 1864
Calvin Kingsley 1864
Jonathan Weaver 1865
William May Wightman 1866
Enoch Mather Marvin 1866
David Seth Doggett 1866
Holland Nimmons McTyeire 1866
John Wright Roberts 1866
John Dickson 1869
John Christian Keener 1870
Reuben Yeakel 1871
Thomas Bowman 1872
William Logan Harris 1872
Randolph Sinks Foster 1872
Isaac William Wiley 1872
Stephen Mason Merrill 1872
Edward Gayer Andrews 1872
Gilbert Haven 1872
Jesse Truesdell Peck 1872
Rudolph Dubs 1875
Thomas Bowman 1875
Milton Wright 1877
Nicholas Castle 1877
Henry White Warren 1880
Cyrus David Foss 1880
John Fletcher Hurst 1880
Erastus Otis Haven 1880
Ezekiel Boring Kephart 1881
Alpheus Waters Wilson 1882
Linus Parker 1882
John Cowper Granbery 1882
Robert Kennon Hargrove 1882
William Xavier Ninde 1884
John Morgan Walden 1884
Willard Francis Mallalieu 1884
Charles Henry Fowler 1884
William Taylor 1884
Daniel Kumler Flickinger 1885
William Wallace Duncan 1886
Charles Betts Galloway 1886
Eugene Russell Hendrix 1886
Joseph Stanton Key 1886
John Heyl Vincent 1888
James Newbury FitzGerald 1888
Isaac Wilson Joyce 1888
John Philip Newman 1888
Daniel Ayres Goodsell 1888
James Mills Thoburn 1888
James W. Hott 1889
Atticus Greene Haygood 1890
Oscar Penn Fitzgerald 1890
Wesley Matthias Stanford 1891
Christian S. Haman 1891
Sylvanus C. Breyfogel 1891
William Horn 1891
Job S. Mills 1893
Charles Cardwell McCabe 1896
Joseph Crane Hartzell 1896
Earl Cranston 1896
Warren Akin Candler 1898
Henry Clay Morrison 1898
David Hastings Moore 1900
John William Hamilton 1900
Edwin Wallace Parker 1900
Francis Wesley Warne 1900
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Joseph Flintoft Berry 1904
Henry Spellmeyer 1904
William Fraser McDowell 1904
James Whitford Bashford 1904
William Burt 1904
Luther Barton Wilson 1904
Thomas Benjamin Neely 1904
Isaiah Benjamin Scott 1904
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John Edward Robinson 1904
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William Marion Weekley 1905
William Melvin Bell 1905
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Charles William Smith 1908
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Robert McIntyre 1908
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James Henry McCoy 1910
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Homer Clyde Stuntz 1912
William Orville Shepard 1912
Theodore Sommers Henderson 1912
Naphtali Luccock 1912
Francis John McConnell 1912
Frederick DeLand Leete 1912
Richard Joseph Cooke 1912
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John Wesley Robinson 1912
William Perry Eveland 1912
Henry Harness Fout 1913
Cyrus Jeffries Kephart 1913
Alfred Taylor Howard 1913
Gottlieb Heinmiller 1915
Lawrence Hoover Seager 1915
Herbert Welch 1916
Thomas Nicholson 1916
Adna Wright Leonard 1916
Matthew Simpson Hughes 1916
Charles Bayard Mitchell 1916
Franklin Elmer Ellsworth Hamilton 1916
Alexander Priestly Camphor 1916
Eben Samuel Johnson 1916
William H. Washinger 1917
John Monroe Moore 1918
William Fletcher McMurry 1918
Urban Valentine Williams Darlington 1918
Horace Mellard DuBose 1918
William Newman Ainsworth 1918
James Cannon, Jr. 1918
Matthew T. Maze 1918
Lauress John Birney 1920
Frederick Bohn Fisher 1920
Charles Edward Locke 1920
Ernest Lynn Waldorf 1920
Edgar Blake 1920
Ernest Gladstone Richardson 1920
Charles Wesley Burns 1920
Harry Lester Smith 1920
George Harvey Bickley 1920
Frederick Thomas Keeney 1920
Charles Larew Mead 1920
Anton Bast 1920
Robert Elijah Jones 1920
Matthew Wesley Clair 1920
Arthur R. Clippinger 1921
William Benjamin Beauchamp 1922
James Edward Dickey 1922
Samuel Ross Hay 1922
Hoyt McWhorter Dobbs 1922
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John Francis Dunlap 1922
George Amos Miller 1924
Titus Lowe 1924
George Richmond Grose 1924
Brenton Thoburn Badley 1924
Wallace Elias Brown 1924
Arthur Biggs Statton 1925
John S. Stamm 1926
Samuel J. Umbreit 1926
Raymond J. Wade 1928
James Chamberlain Baker 1928
Edwin Ferdinand Lee 1928
Grant D. Batdorf 1929
Ira David Warner 1929
John W. Gowdy 1930
Chih Ping Wang 1930
Arthur James Moore 1930
Paul Bentley Kern 1930
Angie Frank Smith 1930
George Edward Epp 1930
Joshwant Rao Chitamber 1930
Juan Ermete Gattinoni 1932
Junius Ralph Magee 1932
Ralph Spaulding Cushman 1932
Elmer Wesley Praetorius 1934
Charles H. Stauffacher 1934
Jarrell Waskom Pickett 1935
Roberto Valenzuela Elphick 1936
Wilbur Emery Hammaker 1936
Charles Wesley Flint 1936
Garfield Bromley Oxnam 1936
Alexander Preston Shaw 1936
John McKendree Springer 1936
F. H. Otto Melle 1936
Ralph Ansel Ward 1937
Victor Otterbein Weidler 1938
Ivan Lee Holt 1938
William Walter Peele 1938
Clare Purcell 1938
Charles Claude Selecman 1938
John Lloyd Decell 1938
William Clyde Martin 1938
William Turner Watkins 1938
James Henry Straughn 1939
John Calvin Broomfield 1939
William Alfred Carroll Hughes 1940
Lorenzo Houston King 1940
Bruce Richard Baxter 1940
Shot Kumar Mondol 1940
Clement Daniel Rockey 1941
Enrique Carlos Balloch 1941
Z. T. Kaung 1941
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Fred L. Dennis 1941
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Lewis Oliver Hartman 1944
Newell Snow Booth 1944
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Edward Wendall Kelly 1944
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Paul Elliott Martin 1944
Costen Jordan Harrell 1944
Paul Neff Garber 1944
Charles Wesley Brashares 1944
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Arthur Frederick Wesley 1944
John Abdus Subhan 1945
John Balmer Showers 1945
August Theodor Arvidson 1946
Johann Wilhelm Ernst Sommer 1946
John Wesley Edward Bowen 1948
Lloyd Christ Wicke 1948
John Wesley Lord 1948
Dana Dawson 1948
Marvin Augustus Franklin 1948
Roy Hunter Short 1948
Richard Campbell Raines 1948
Marshall Russell Reed 1948
Harry Clifford Northcott 1948
Hazen Graff Werner 1948
Glenn Randall Phillips 1948
Gerald Hamilton Kennedy 1948
Donald Harvey Tippett 1948
Jose Labarrete Valencia 1948
Sante Uberto Barbieri 1949
Raymond Leroy Archer 1950
David Thomas Gregory 1950
Frederick Buckley Newell 1952
Edgar Amos Love 1952
Matthew Wesley Clair Jr. 1952
John Warren Branscomb 1952
Henry Bascom Watts 1952
D. Stanley Coors 1952
Edwin Edgar Voigt 1952
Francis Gerald Ensley 1952
Alsie Raymond Grant 1952
Julio Manuel Sabanes 1952
Friedrich Wunderlich 1953
Odd Arthur Hagen 1953
Ferdinand Sigg 1954
Reuben Herbert Mueller 1954
Harold Rickel Heininger 1954
Lyle Lynden Baughman 1954
Prince Albert Taylor Jr. 1956
Eugene Maxwell Frank 1956
Nolan Bailey Harmon 1956
Bachman Gladstone Hodge 1956
Hobart Baumann Amstutz 1956
Ralph Edward Dodge 1956
Mangal Singh 1956
Gabriel Sundaram 1956
Paul E. V. Shannon 1957
John Gordon Howard 1957
Hermann Walter Kaebnick 1958
W. Maynard Sparks 1958
Paul Murray Herrick 1958
Bowman Foster Stockwell 1960
Fred Garrigus Holloway 1960
William Vernon Middleton 1960
William Ralph Ward Jr. 1960
James Kenneth Mathews 1960
Oliver Eugene Slater 1960
William Kenneth Pope 1960
Paul Vernon Galloway 1960
Aubrey Grey Walton 1960
Kenneth Wilford Copeland 1960
Everett Walter Palmer 1960
Ralph Taylor Alton 1960
Edwin Ronald Garrison 1960
Torney Otto Nall Jr. 1960
Charles Franklin Golden 1960
Noah Watson Moore Jr. 1960
Marquis LaFayette Harris 1960
James Walton Henley 1960
Walter Clark Gum 1960
Paul Hardin Jr. 1960
John Owen Smith 1960
Paul William Milhouse 1960
Pedro Ricardo Zottele 1962
James Samuel Thomas 1964
William McFerrin Stowe 1964
Walter Kenneth Goodson 1964
Dwight Ellsworth Loder 1964
Robert Marvin Stuart 1964
Edward Julian Pendergrass Jr. 1964
Thomas Marion Pryor 1964
Homer Ellis Finger Jr. 1964
Earl Gladstone Hunt Jr. 1964
Francis Enmer Kearns 1964
Lance Webb 1964
Escrivao Anglaze Zunguze 1964
Robert Fielden Lundy 1964
Harry Peter Andreassen 1964
John Wesley Shungu 1964
Alfred Jacob Shaw 1965
Prabhakar Christopher Benjamin
Balaram 1965
Stephen Trowen Nagbe 1965
Franz Werner Schäfer 1966
Benjamin I. Guansing 1967
Lineunt Scott Allen 1967
Paul Arthur Washburn 1968
Carl Ernst Sommer 1968
David Frederick Wertz 1968
Alsie Henry Carleton 1968
Roy Calvin Nichols 1968
Arthur James Armstrong 1968
William Ragsdale Cannon 1968
Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa 1968
Cornelio M. Ferrer 1968
Paul Locke A. Granadosin 1968
Joseph R. Lance 1968
Ram Dutt Joshi 1968
Eric Algernon Mitchell 1969
Federico Jose Pagura 1969
Armin E. Härtel 1970
Ole Edvard Borgen 1970
Finis Alonzo Crutchfield Jr. 1972
Joseph Hughes Yeakel 1972
Robert E. Goodrich Jr. 1972
Carl Julian Sanders 1972
Ernest T. Dixon Jr. 1972
Don Wendell Holter 1972
Wayne K. Clymer 1972
Joel Duncan McDavid 1972
Edward Gonzalez Carroll 1972
Jesse Robert DeWitt 1972
James Mase Ault 1972
John B. Warman 1972
Mack B. Stokes 1972
Jack Marvin Tuell 1972
Melvin E. Wheatley Jr. 1972
Edward Lewis Tullis 1972
Frank Lewis Robertson 1972
Wilbur Wong Yan Choy 1972
Robert McGrady Blackburn 1972
Emilio J. M. de Carvalho 1972
Fama Onema 1972
Mamidi Elia Peter 1972
Bennie de Quency Warner 1973
J. Kenneth Shamblin 1976
Alonzo Monk Bryan 1976
Kenneth William Hicks 1976
James Chess Lovern 1976
Leroy Charles Hodapp 1976
Edsel Albert Ammons 1976
C. Dale White 1976
Ngoy Kimba Wakadilo 1976
Almeida Penicela 1976
LaVerne D. Mercado 1976
Hermann Ludwig Sticher 1977
Shantu Kumar A. Parmar 1979
Thomas Syla Bangura 1979
John Alfred Ndoricimpa 1980
William Talbot Handy Jr. 1980
John Wesley Hardt 1980
Benjamin Ray Oliphint 1980
Louis Wesley Schowengerdt 1980
Melvin George Talbert 1980
Paul Andrews Duffey 1980
Edwin Charles Boulton 1980
John William Russell 1980
Fitz Herbert Skeete 1980
George Willis Bashore 1980
Roy Clyde Clark 1980
William Boyd Grove 1980
Emerson Stephen Colaw 1980
Marjorie Swank Matthews 1980
Carlton Printess Minnick Jr 1980
Calvin Dale McConnell 1980
Kainda Katembo 1980
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Felton Edwin May 1984
Ernest A. Fitzgerald 1984
R. Kern Eutsler 1984
J. Woodrow Hearn 1984
Walter L. Underwood 1984
Richard B. Wilke 1984
J. Lloyd Knox 1984
Neil L. Irons 1984
Roy Isao Sano 1984
Lewis Bevel Jones III 1984
Forrest C. Stith 1984
Ernest W. Newman 1984
Woodie W. White 1984
Robert Crawley Morgan 1984
David J. Lawson 1984
Elias Gabriel Galvan 1984
Rueben Philip Job 1984
Leontine T. Kelly 1984
Judith Craig 1984
Rüdiger Rainer Minor 1986
Jose Castro Gamboa Jr. 1986
Thomas Barber Stockton 1988
Harold Hasbrouck Hughes Jr. 1988
Richard Carl Looney 1988
Robert Hitchcock Spain 1988
Susan Murch Morrison 1988
R. Sheldon Duecker 1988
Joseph Benjamin Bethea 1988
William B. Oden 1988
Bruce P. Blake 1988
Charles Wilbourne Hancock 1988
Clay Foster Lee Jr. 1988
Sharon A. Brown Christopher 1988
Dan E. Solomon 1988
William B. Lewis 1988
William W. Dew Jr. 1988
Moises Domingos Fernandes 1988
Joao Somane Machado 1988
Walter Klaiber 1989
Heinrich Bolleter 1989
Hans Växby 1989
Alfred Lloyd Norris 1992
Joe Allen Wilson 1992
Robert Eugene Fannin 1992
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Raymond Harold Owen 1992
Joel Neftali Martinez 1992
Donald Arthur Ott 1992
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Hae Jong Kim 1992
William Wesley Morris 1992
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Charles Wesley Jordan 1992
Sharon Zimmerman Rader 1992
S. Clifton Ives 1992
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Done Peter Dabale 1992
Joseph Humper 1992
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J. Lawrence McCleskey 1996
Ernest S. Lyght 1996
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From The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church - 2000. Copyright 2000 by The United Methodist Publishing House. Used by permission.


Laura Sudholt
All Saints Academy, Breese

Have you ever thought how something familiar and commonplace could have an interesting history? McKendree College is one of those places that most people hear about but do not often take time to think about.

Like many colleges, McKendree College survived a shortage of funds while attempting to establish higher education. McKendree College, located in Lebanon, Illinois, about twenty miles from Breese, is one of the oldest schools in the state and offers a wide variety of career opportunities for its students. Some exciting careers have begun at McKendree College, including those of U.S. Senators Francis Hereford (West Virginia) and Lawrence Sherman (Illinois) and Governor Charles Deneen (Illinois).

McKendree College was founded in 1828, when 105 people pledged $1,385 to establish what was named Lebanon Seminary. It was to be a private school made up of two small buildings. In 1828 Lebanon Seminary opened with seventy-two students, sixty-seven males and five females. Edward R. Ames was hired as principal and teacher at a salary of $115 the first year, increasing to $125 the second. Miss McMurphy was hired as a teacher at a salary of $83.33 the first year and $125 the second.

After opening, Lebanon Seminary struggled for two years. However, the Methodist Church's first American-born bishop, William McKendree, became interested in the small school and did much to help the college survive. In honor of William McKendree, the Lebanon Seminary was renamed McKendree College.

After its first seven seniors graduated in 1841, McKendree incurred more debt, and the trustees decided the rest of the year could not be completed. In November 1845 all classes were closed with the promise to reopen in the fall. Although the school reopened in 1846, the president and faculty received a salary, not from McKendree but from Methodist churches. The "salary" was garden vegetables and livestock.

William Goodfellow, a professor at the college, conducted a successful campaign and raised $10,000. This money was used to construct a new building on campus. "Old Main" was completed in 1850 but burned down in 1856. Six years later, construction began on a new chapel. However, replacement costs did not cover the cost of a new bell for the steeple. In 1858 President Nelson E. Cobleigh purchased a bell for $60. Today, this bell still chimes every hour and at every graduation ceremony.

Not only was McKendree noted for its high academic quality, but it also began an athletic program. McKendree offered baseball as its first intercollegiate athletic team, and the school still participates competitively in baseball. Soccer was played from 1888 to 1892, until football replaced it. But in the 1950s, football was also dropped. Tennis teams were formed about 1890, and by 1900 McKendree added a track and basketball team. In 1928 women's sports were added.

By 1922 enrollment reached 1,343 students at the main campus and about 500 more students attending off-site locations. Although McKendree College has struggled throughout its history, it still prospers.—[From McKendree College History 1928-1978.]

This original campus building at McKendree College, constructed in 1828, was destroyed by fire in 1856.

May 20, 1806 • Edward R. Ames Did Ohio Proud
by the Staff or associates of Christian History Institute.
© Copyright 1999-2005. All rights reserved.

Edward R. Ames caused Abraham Lincoln some embarrassment. He did not mean to do it.

Abraham Lincoln risked political embarrassment because of Ames.
Born in Amesville, Ohio on this day, May 20, 1806, he was the son of a judge. His early education was of the same simple quality available to most rural boys. However, he loved to read and spent much time in the local library. This furnished him with the background he needed to enter the Ohio University at Athens, which he did at twenty. He remained there for many years, supporting himself by teaching.

Edward had become a Methodist. Attending a Methodist conference that was held at Chillicothe in 1828, he attracted the attention of Bishop Roberts, who asked him to accompany him to Illinois. That invitation set Edward on a course to prominence in his denomination. At Lebanon, Illinois, he founded the school which became McKendree College. His salary the first year--as principal and teacher--was a whopping $115!

Two years later, in 1830, Edward became a traveling preacher. The flamboyant Peter Cartwright, one of the most famous of all circuit riders, ordained him. Later Edward would host Joseph Tarkington, another famous name among the Methodist circuit riders. Tarkington wrote "As he helped the children out, he said, 'What would I give if my children were as healthy as these!' I advised him to keep a cow. Mrs. Ames was delicate of health but noble-spirited. She was anxious to be of use and comfort to her family. She had never learned to cook, and wanted my wife to teach her." While a traveling preacher, Edward once rode down the whole frontier from Lake Superior to Texas, camping out almost the whole way! With few provisions, he sometimes went hungry for days on end. He preached to thousands, organized mission work and obtained land grants from state governments.

During the twenty years after he became a traveling preacher, Edward engaged in many tasks. One of the most unusual was to serve as the chaplain of the Choctaw General Council at the tribe's request. A few years later he served as president of Asbury College. He was also the first Methodist leader to reach the Pacific coast.

In 1852, Edward was elected bishop at a Boston conference. (That same meeting changed Methodist rules, finally permitting women and men to sit together in the church pews.) By his elevation to bishop, Edward moved a step closer to embarrassing Lincoln.

During the American Civil War, the War Department asked Edward to take charge of Methodist churches in the Southern states where many bishops were not loyal to the Union. Embarrassed that the nation would interpret this as a violation of the separation of church and state, Lincoln dashed off a letter, saying, "the U. S Government must not, as by this order, under take to run the Churches. When an individual in a church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest, he must be checked; but the churches, as such, must take care of themselves. It will not do for the U. S. to appoint trustees, supervisors or other agents for the churches."

When Lincoln found that only the conquered Southern states were involved, he relaxed. Edward was allowed to go on with the work and he appointed many preachers throughout the region.

After the War, Edward assisted at revival services in St. Louis, Missouri and was active in preparing a new Methodist hymnal. Its preface exhorted the brethren to "'sing with the spirit' and 'with the understanding also,' 'making melody in your heart to the Lord.' "

Edward died in Baltimore in 1879, one of many Methodists who made a significant contribution to the growing American nation.

Resources:
"Ames, Edward Raymond." Dictionary of American Biography.
Ames, Francis. History of Hocking Valley, Ohio. (www.angelfire.com/ks2/Ames/edward.html).
Lincoln, Abraham. Letter to Edwin M. Stanton, February 11, 1864.
Tarkington, Joseph. Autobiography. (Cincinnati: Curtis and Jennings, 1899).
Various internet articles.

Ames, Edward Raymond (1806-1879) Honorary Doctor of Divinity, 1871

ID: I122
Name: Edward Raymond "Bishop" Ames
Sex: M
Birth: 20 May 1806 in Athens, Athen County, Ohio
Death: 25 Apr 1879 in Baltimore, Maryland
ADDR: No. 184 M'Cullough Street

Baltimore
Maryland

Marriage 1 Henrietta BEACH b: 28 Aug 1808
Married: 1 Jan 1834
Children
Ann B. AMES b: 24 Oct 1835
Laura B. AMES b: 1839
Edward R. AMES b: 1844

ID: I01481
Name: Edward Raymond Ames 1 2 3 4 5
Sex: M
Title: Bishop
Birth: 20 MAY 1806 in Ames Twp, Athens, OH 4 6 7
Birth: 20 MAY 1806 in Athens, Athens Co, OH 2 3
Death: 25 APR 1879 in Baltimore, Baltimore, MD 4 6
Education: OH University at Athens
Occupation: Methodist Bishop
Religion: Methodist
Residence: mostly in IN
Note:
From Harper's Weekly, 5-17-1879: "The Late Bishop Ames"
"The venerable Bishop Edward Raymond Ames, D.D., LL.D, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who died in Baltimore on the 25th ult., was a man with a remarkable history. He belonged to an old Puritan family that left MA toward the close of the last century, and settled at Amesville, OH, where Edward was born in 1806. His grandfather, the Rev. Sylvanus Ames, a graduate of Harvard, died at Valley Forge while acting as chaplain of General Washington's army.

At the age of twenty he left the farm and entered as a student in the OH State [sic] University, at Athens, where he spent two years, supporting himself chiefly by his own exertions. In 1828 he opened a High School at Lebanon, IL, which subseqently became M'Kendree College, in which institution he was a tutor. He remained there until 1830, when he became a Methodist preacher, first joining the IL Conference.

Upon the organization of the IN Conference in 1832, he joined that body, remaining there until he became a Bishop, with the exception of two years spent in IL. He was often appointed Presiding Elder, and filled various other offices of trust in the Church. He was chosen a Delegate to the General conference of the Methodists held in Baltimore in 1840, and was elected Corresponding Secretary of the Missionary society of the South and West.

When the rupture occurred between the Church North and South on the slavery question, in 1844, he did what he could to heal the breach and promote good-fellowship, but the effort was unavailing, and he remained with the Church North. In 1848 he officiated as chaplain to a Council of Choctaws, being the first chaplain ever chosen by an Indian Assembly." End of Harper's.

In "HISTORY OF MONROE CO." BY FRANK HICKENLOOPER C.1896: Bishop E.R. AMES (Methodist Episcopal) was president of the IA Conference at its 27th session 28 Sept. 1870, in Albia IA.

The below was sent by Stafford-Ames Morse, 12522 Corliss Ave N., Seattle, WA, 98133, to Steven Sims on 8-22-1998, personal correspondence.

In the Valley Forge Park Reference Library [1-15-1973] there is a book titled "Known Military Dead" compiled by Clarence Steward Peterson. Listed in this book is the following item:
Bishop Ames
The effort to put a man of the size and style of Bishop Ames into a book is a difficult, if not a hopeless, task. There is so much of him, in so many different directions, that one who knew and loved him finds himself discouraged at every step. Perhaps no better thing has been said in few words in honor of his memory than this sentence with which the Rev. Dr. Fowler concludes a tribute to his memory in the editorial columns of " The Christian Advocate:" "Bishop Ames was truly a great man, and the Church will be lonesome without him."

Edward Raymond Ames was of good Puritan stock. His grandfather, the Rev. Sylvanus Ames was a MA man, a graduate of Harvard College, and a pastor at Taunton, MA During the war of the Revolution, he was a chaplain in Washington's army, and died in camp at Valley Forge in that terrible winter of 1778-79. His son, the father of the Bishop, settled at Amesville, OH, where Edward Raymond Ames was born the 20th of May, 1806. During his student life at the University of OH he experienced the grace of God, and was received into the Methodist Episcopal Church. Among his associates at that time may be mentioned the distinguished names of Rev. H.J. Clark, Rev. J. M. Tremble, Rev. E. H. Pilcher, E. W. Sehon, and other young men, who afterward obtained distinction in the Church. In 1830 he was licensed to preach by that remarkable man Peter Cartwright, and during the same year he was received on trial by the IL Conference. In 1832, on the division of this Conference, he was assigned to that portion of it which was designated the IN Conference, as a member of which he was ordained deacon by Bishop Soule, and elder by Bishop Roberts. In 1840 he was chosen a delegate to the General Conference held in Baltimore, and was elected Corresponding Secetery of the Missionary Society, holding also the position of Superintendent of the German and Indian Missions of the Church, in which capacity he traveled over twenty-four thousand miles during the four years of his secretaryship, traversing the whole Indian Territory from TX to Lake Superior, and camping out in various Indian Tribes he learned to speak the Choctaw language. He was absolutely without fear, and traveled among friendly and hostile Indians, often alone, most of the time with only a single companion. He was the first chaplain eve relected by an Indian Council, in which capacity he served in the Choctaw General Council of 1842, where, at their request, he drew up the School Law of the Choctaw Nation, a noble bill, by the provision of which a larger sum was appropriated for education, per capita, than in any State of the Union. The confidence reposed in him, and in his knowledge of Indian character, was often shown during the presidencies of Lincoln and Grant, by whom he was often solicited to serve on Indian Commissions, but which honor, from press of other duties, he was obliged to decline.

Marriage 1 Mahala Hanson (Waller?)

Marriage 2 Henrietta BEACH b: 28 AUG 1808 in Hanover, Morris, NJ
Married: 1 JAN 1834 in Jefferson, Clark, IN 2 3 8
Children
Annie E. Ames b: 24 OCT 1835 in Jeffersonville, Clark, IN
Laura B. Ames b: 1839 in IN
Edward Raymond Ames b: 1844 in IN

Sources:
Title: Ames Family Chart
Author: Commissioned by Ellis Ames, Esquire
Publication: About 1850
Note: This chart of the Ames family has survived as copies among many Ames descendants. Its accuracy has been confirmed via Vital Records wherever such records have been found to exist. Fewer than 1% of its data conflicts in any way with corresponding VRs, and it may be the VRs that are inaccurate.
Repository:
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Media: Manuscript
Text: Date of Import: Aug 23, 1998
Title: Alan Blades
Author: Alan Blades
Publication: Ancestry.com
Repository:
Note: alschina@aol.com
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Media: Electronic
Text: gedcom from Vickie Ames Gellhaus


Children of EDWARD Ames and HENRIETTA BEACH are:
2. i. ANN B. ANNIE14 Ames, b. 24 Oct 1835, Jeffersonvillie, Indiana.
ii. LAURA B. AMES, b. 1839, Indiana.

Notes for LAURA B. AMES:
May be Laura A. Ames.

iii. EDWARD RAYMOND Ames, b. 1844, Indiana; d. 24 Sep 1882.

Notes for EDWARD RAYMOND AMES:
1880 United States Federal Census has 6 matches for:
Edward Ames in Indiana

Name: Edward Ames
Age: 35
Estimated birth year: <1845>
Birthplace: Indiana
Occupation: At Home
Relation: Other
Home in 1880: Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland
Marital status: Widower
Race: White
Gender: Male
Head of household: Larrabee INNES
Father's birthplace: IN
Mother's birthplace: IN
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Image Source: Year: 1880; Census Place: Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland; Roll: T9_501; Family History Film: 1254501; Page: 140B; Enumeration District: 111; Image: 0461.

U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles
about Edward Raymond Ames
Name: Edward Raymond Ames
Residence: Marion County, Indiana
Enlistment Date: 22 Apr 1861
Rank at enlistment: Corporal
State Served: Indiana
Survived the War?: Yes
Service Record: Enlisted in Company B, Indiana 11th Infantry Regiment on 22 Apr 1861.
Mustered out on 04 Aug 1861 at Indianapolis, IN.
Commissioned an officer in the Regular Army 7th Infantry Regiment on 06 Mar 1862.
Promoted to Full 2nd Lieutenant on 06 Mar 1862.
Promoted to Full 1st Lieutenant on 28 Aug 1863.
Promoted to Full Captain on 07 Oct 1864.

Death Date: 24 Sep 1882
Sources: Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana
Heitman: Register of United States Army 1789-1903


Generation No. 2

2. ANN B. ANNIE14 Ames (EDWARD RAYMOND13, SYLVANUS12, SYLVANUS11, THOMAS10, THOMAS WILLIAM9, JOHN8, WILLIAM7, JOHN "RICHARD"6, JOHN5, JOHN4, WILLIAM AMES3 EAMES, JAMES2 IV, HENRY1 STEWART) was born 24 Oct 1835 in Jeffersonvillie, Indiana. She married PHILIP HANSON HISS 20 May 1856 in Baltimore, Maryland, son of PHILLIP HISS and SARAH ROGERS.

Notes for PHILIP HANSON HISS:
Could be William Jacob HISS.

Household Record 1880 United States Census


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Household:

Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Hanson HISS Self M Male W 49 MD Cabinet Maker MD MD
Susan HISS Wife M Female W 49 MD Keeping House PA PA
Henry S. HISS Son S Male W 27 MD Furniture Manufacturing MD MD
Philip HISS Son S Male W 22 MD Designer MD MD
Mary M. HISS Dau S Female W 21 MD At Home MD MD
Hattie HISS Dau S Female W 17 MD At School MD MD
Susan HISS Dau S Female W 15 MD At School MD MD
Fanny V. HISS Dau S Female W 13 MD At School MD MD
P. Hanson HISS Son S Male W 11 MD At School MD MD
Mary RINGLAND Other M Female W 65 PA Servant IRE PA
Ann ATKINSON Other S Female W 49 MD Servant IRE IRE
Cate FLYNN Other S Female W 22 PA Servant PA PA
William OTT Other S Male B 21 PA Servant PA PA


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Source Information:
Census Place District 9, Baltimore, Maryland
Family History Library Film 1254496
NA Film Number T9-0496
Page Number 184B



Child of ANN Ames and PHILIP HISS is:
3. i. AGNES AMES15 HISS, b. 29 Sep 1857.


Generation No. 3

3. AGNES AMES15 HISS (ANN B. ANNIE14 Ames, EDWARD RAYMOND13, SYLVANUS12, SYLVANUS11, THOMAS10, THOMAS WILLIAM9, JOHN8, WILLIAM7, JOHN "RICHARD"6, JOHN5, JOHN4, WILLIAM AMES3 EAMES, JAMES2 IV, HENRY1 STEWART) was born 29 Sep 1857. She married UNKNOWN BROWN.

Child of AGNES HISS and UNKNOWN BROWN is:
i. RICHARD OLIVER AMES16 BROWN.