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Wells (DAVID AMES an American)

DAVID AMES, an American political economist; born in Springfield, Mass., June 17, 1828; was graduated at Williams College in 1847, and at the Lawrence Scientific School in 1851; and became assistant professor in the latter institution. In 1866 he was made the chairman of a commission to devise the best means to raise money for the government; in 1866-1870 was a special commissioner of revenue; and in 1879 was appointed a member of the Board of Arbitration for Railroads. His publications include: "Our Burden and Our Strength" (1864); "The Creed of the Free Trader" (1875); "Why We Trade and How We Trade" (1878); "The Silver Question, or the Dollar of the Fathers vs. the Dollar of the Sons" (1878); "Our Merchant Marine; How it Rose, Increased, became Great, Declined, and and Decayed" (1882); "Relation of Tariff to Wages" (1888); etc. He died in Norwich, Conn., Nov. 5, 1898. edu-