Ames
Ames names 6 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Ames HERMAN VANDENBURG, an American educator
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HERMAN VANDENBURG, an American educator, born in Lancaster, Mass., in 1865. He graduated from Amherst College in 1888 and took post-graduate courses in Columbia and Harvard Universities. After three years on the faculty of the University of Michigan, he studied at Leipsic and Heidelberg. In 1896 he became assistant professor of history in Ohio State University, and in the following year he was appointed instructor in American constitutional history at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1908 he was appointed professor of American constitutional history in the same institution and in 1907 he became dean of the Graduate School. He gave lecture courses in other colleges and was a member of many important historical societies. Among his popular writings are "Outline of Lectures on American Political setts Legislature. He was elected presi- and Institutional History during the dent of Harvard College in 1804, but Colonial and Revolutionary Periods" M AMERONGEN CASTLE (1908); "Syllabus of American Colonial History" (1912), etc.
Ames WINTHROP, an American theatrical manager
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WINTHROP, an American theatrical manager, born in Massachusetts in 1871. He graduated from Harvard University in 1895. After several years spent in editorial work and in magazine writing, he became manager of the Castle Square Theater in Boston in 1904. He was one of the chief movers in the plan to erect the New Theater in New York City and was its director from 1908 until the enterprise was abandoned in 1911. Afterward he was manager of several theaters in New York City and produced some of the most notable plays seen in recent years.
Ames FISHER, an American orator and statesman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FISHER, an American orator and statesman, born in Dedham, Mass., April 9, 1758. Admitted to the bar in 1781, he became a member of Congress in 1789, where he gained a national reputation by his oratory. Two of his finest efforts were in support of John Jay's treaty with Great Britain and a eulogy on Washington before the Massachu- 2 declined. His work consists of or orations, essays, and letters (2 vols., 1854). He died in Dedham, July 4, 1808.
Ames ADELBERT, an American military officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ADELBERT, an American military officer, born in 1835; graduated at West Point, 1861; became Brigadierbrevet Major-General General and United States Volunteers, in the Civil War; Provisional Governor of Mississippi, 1868; resigned army commission, 1870; United States Senator from Mississippi, 1870-1873, Governor 1874-1876; and Brigadier-General United States Volunteers in the war with Spain, 1898.
Ames a city of Iowa
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city of Iowa, in Story co., 37 miles N. of Des Moines. It is on the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, and is the seat of the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. The city has a library and is of considerable industrial importance. Pop. (1910) 4,223; (1920) 6,270.
Ames MARY CLEMMER, an American author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MARY CLEMMER, an American author, born in Utica, N. Y., in 1839. Among her works are the novels "Victoria" (1864); "Eirene" (1870), and "His Two Wives" (1874); a volume of "Poems" (1882); and biographies of Alice and Phoebe Cary. She died in Washington, D. C., Aug. 18, 1884.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Of the six Ameses Collier's listed in 1921, the one transformed is the Iowa city: then a town of 6,270 with a state agricultural college, now a city of roughly 66,000 built around Iowa State University, renamed in 1959 from the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. Ames also became a center of federal science, home to the Ames Laboratory, where a wartime process for producing pure uranium metal supplied the Manhattan Project. The people were all still living or recently dead when the entry was written: Adelbert Ames died in 1933, widely reported as the last surviving Union general of the Civil War; Winthrop Ames left theatrical management in the 1930s and is now remembered chiefly for building the Little and Booth theatres in New York and for his Gilbert and Sullivan revivals. Fisher Ames, dead since 1808, needed no updating then and needs little now, though he is read more attentively today as a founding voice of American conservatism.
Written for this edition, 2026.