Charles Gordon Ames, 1828-1912
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Charles Gordon Ames was born on October 3, 1828, in Dorchester, and died on Apri l15, 1912. He was a Unitarian clergyman, editor and lecturer.
He was a foundling, adopted by his parents when he was three years old. Ames spent his early years on a farm and in a printing-office in New Hampshire. He graduated from the Geauga Seminary of Ohio and was ordained in 1849 as a Free Will Baptist. He became the founding minister for a church of that sect in Minneapolis in 1851. Ames was secretary of the founding meeting of the Minnesota branch of the Republican Party in 1854, and from 1855 to 1857, he edited the Minnesota Republican, the first Republican paper in the Northwest. He found his congregation wanting in the faith and attitude he expected, and after five years he left the Minneapolis church, and, for a time, the ministry.
He settled in Boston in 1859 and became a Unitarian. He edited the Christian Register of Boston from 1877 to 1880. In 1881, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society. In 1889 Ames succeeded the Rev. James Freeman Clarke as pastor of the Church of the Disciples (Boston). In 1896 he received the degree of D.D from Bates College
In 1863, he married activist Fannie Baker Ames. This was his second marriage; in 1850 he had married Sarah Jane Daniels.
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Charles Gordon Ames, D.D. (1828-1912) was born in Boston and was well known in the New England Transcendentalist movement. Licensed to preach in the Freewill Baptist denomination, he attended Geauga Seminary near Cleveland, Ohio from 1847-1849 and was ordained in the Freewill Baptist movement in 1849. In 1851 he founded the First Freewill Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He returned to Boston in 1859 and became a member of the Unitarian Church of the Disciples. Following the Civil War, he served as a missionary in California from 1865-1872. Reverend Ames served Unitarian parishes in Illinois, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, California and Massachusetts and served as pastor and pastor-emeritus of the Church of the Disciples (Boston) from 1888 until his death. In 1880 he wrote the widely used covenant known as the Ames Covenant, which states: In the love of truth, and in the spirit of Jesus, we unite for the worship of God and the service of all. His published works include George Eliot’s Two Marriages (1885), As Natural as Life (1894), Sermons of Sunrise (1901), Poems (1898), Five Points of Faith (1903) and Living Largely (1904).
Sarah Jane Daniels Ames, 1828-1861
Julia Frances Baker Ames, 1840-1931
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Ames was born in Dorchester.
See also Dictionary of American Biography. (New York, 1928), 241-242.