The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . r vividand picturesque, and his freedom .of language makesthem exhaustive. These qualities, with his largeexperience, give him in his profession a world-widereputation. He died Oct
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . r vividand picturesque, and his freedom .of language makesthem exhaustive. These qualities, with his largeexperience, give him in his profession a world-widereputation. He died Oct. 18, 1897. AMMIDOWN, Edward Holmes, merchant,was born in Southbridge, Worcester county, Mass.,Oct. 38,1820. He belongs to one of the oldest fam-ilies of New England, being directly descended fromRoger Ammidown, a Huguenot refugee, who emi-grated to Salem in 1640, and soon afterward becameone of the first settlers of Boston. Though none ofhis posterity have risen to national distinction, manyhave occupied positions of prominence in the com-mercial and professional circles of Massachusetts,and Holmes Ammidown, the father of the subjectof this sketch, was for many years one of the mostsubstantial and highly respected among the mer-chants of Boston. He also acquired a high reputa-tion as a local historian by the publication of a vol-imie of Historical Collections, that is held in high OF AMERICAN BIOGKAPHY. 247. esteem by writers and students of history. His sonpassed liis boyhood in Boston, attending first thepublic schools and then Harvard, where he wasgraduated with the class of 1853—a class which isnoted for the number of distinguished men it hasfurnished to the country. After being graduatedMr. Ammidown traveled exten-sively in this country, and visitedEurope, wTiere he devoted muchattention to acquiring a knowledgeof the literature and languages ofboth France and Germany. Re-turning to this country in 1860, hedecided m pursue a mercantilecareer. His reputation for clear-b
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