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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, New York published by John M. Gresham & Co. in 1891.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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EDWARD AMES, M.D., a well-read and successful physician of Sherman, was born in West Rutland, Vermont, January 28, 1851, and is a son of Charles and Adelia D. (Ward) Ames. The Ames are of English origin while the Wards are of Scotch descent. Charles Ames, the father of Dr. Edward Ames, was born in Vermont where he married Adelia D. Ward, who is a native of the same State, and removed in 1855 to Kane county, Illinois, where he still resides and is engaged in farming. Mr. and Mrs. Ames have five children, four sons and one daughter.

Edward Ames received his early education in common and select schools, attending Jennings seminary at Aurora, Illinois, for one year and then entered Wheaton college of the same State, where he studied for one year. From Wheaton college he came, in 1871, to Sherman, where he prosecuted his classical studies with Rev. W. L. Hyde and also read medicine with Dr. H. B. Osborne, now of Kalamazoo, Michigan. He then entered the medical department of Yale college from which he was graduated in 1874, after which he immediately opened an office at Sherman. Six years later he left a large practice temporarily to take a special course in the medical department of the University of New York, from which he was graduated in 1881. He then returned to Sherman and resumed his practice which has steadily increased ever since.

On October 25th, of the Centennial year, Dr. Ames united in marriage with Annette Hoyt, of Kaneville, Illinois, and their union has been blest with two children: Jessie H. and Thaddeus H.

In his medical courses Dr. Ames had special opportunities for the study of diseases and has a very fine office practice in addition to his general practice. He is a member of the Chautauqua County Medical society of which he was president for three terms, and is one of the founders of the New York State Medical association in whose proceedings he takes a deep interest.

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This family biography is one of 658 biographies included in Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, New York published in 1891. 

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