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LEFT AMES 146 AMES 3etts Legislature. He was elected presi- and Institutional History during the dent of Harvard College in 1804, but Colonial and Revolutionary Periods" AMERONGEN CASTLE declined. His work consists of orations, essays, and letters (2 vols., 1854). He died in Dedham, July 4, 1808. AMES, HERMAN VANDENBURG, an American educator, bom in Lan- caster, 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 assist- ant 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 ap- pointed professor of American consti- tutional history in the same institution and in 1907 he became dean of the Grad- uate School. He gave lectui'e courses in other colleges and was a member of many important historical societies. Among his popular writings are "Out- line of Lectures on American Political (1908); "Syllabus of American Colonial History" (1912), etc. AMES, MARY CLEMMER, an Amer- ican author, born in Utica, N. Y., in 1839. Among her works are the novels "Vic- toria" (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. AMES, WINTHROP, an American theatrical manager, bom in Massachu- setts in 1871. He graduated from Har- vard 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 aban- doned in 1911, Afterward he was man- ager of several theaters in New York City and produced some of the most notable plays seen in recent years.