. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. , The cityhas a library and is of considerable in-dustrial importance. Pop. (1910) 4,223;(1920) 6,270. AMES, ADELBERT, an Americanmilitary officer, born in 1835; graduatedat West Point, 1861; became Brigadier-General and brevet Major-GeneralUnited States Volunteers, in the CivilWar; Provisional Governor of Missis-sippi, 1868; resigned army commission,1870; United States Senator from Mis-sissippi, 1870-1873, Governor 1874-1876;and Brigadier-General United StatesVolunteers
. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. , The cityhas a library and is of considerable in-dustrial importance. Pop. (1910) 4,223;(1920) 6,270. AMES, ADELBERT, an Americanmilitary officer, born in 1835; graduatedat West Point, 1861; became Brigadier-General and brevet Major-GeneralUnited States Volunteers, in the CivilWar; Provisional Governor of Missis-sippi, 1868; resigned army commission,1870; United States Senator from Mis-sissippi, 1870-1873, Governor 1874-1876;and Brigadier-General United StatesVolunteers in the war with Spain, 1898. AMES, FISHER, an American oratorand statesman, born in Dedham, Mass.,April 9, 1758. Admitted to the bar in1781, he became a member of Congressin 1789, where he gained a national rep-utation by his oratory. Two of his finestefforts were in support of John Jaystreaty with Great Britain and a eulogyon Washington before the Massachu- AMES 146 AMES 3etts Legislature. He was elected presi- and Institutional History during thedent of Harvard College in 1804, but Colonial and Revolutionary Periods. AMERONGEN CASTLE declined. His work consists of orations,essays, and letters (2 vols., 1854). Hedied in Dedham, July 4, 1808. AMES, HERMAN VANDENBURG,an American educator, bom in Lan-caster, Mass., in 1865. He graduatedfrom Amherst College in 1888 and tookpost-graduate courses in Columbia andHarvard Universities. After three yearson the faculty of the University ofMichigan, he studied at Leipsic andHeidelberg. In 1896 he became assist-ant professor of history in Ohio StateUniversity, and in the following yearhe was appointed instructor in Americanconstitutional history at the Universityof Pennsylvania. In 1908 he was ap-pointed professor of American consti-tutional history in the same institutionand in 1907 he became dean of the Grad-uate School. He gave lectuie courses inother colleges and was a member ofmany important historical his popular wri
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