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Title: Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps
Year: 1921 (1920s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : P. F. Collier
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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, The cityhas a library and is of considerable in-dustrial importance. Pop. (1910) 4,223;(1920) 6,270. AMES, ADELBERT, an Americanmilitary officer, born in 1835; graduatedat West Point, 1861; became Brigadier-General and brevet Major-GeneralUnited States Volunteers, in the CivilWar; Provisional Governor of Missis-sippi, 1868; resigned army commission,1870; United States Senator from Mis-sissippi, 1870-1873, Governor 1874-1876;and Brigadier-General United StatesVolunteers in the war with Spain, 1898. AMES, FISHER, an American oratorand statesman, born in Dedham, Mass.,April 9, 1758. Admitted to the bar in1781, he became a member of Congressin 1789, where he gained a national rep-utation by his oratory. Two of his finestefforts were in support of John Jaystreaty with Great Britain and a eulogyon Washington before the Massachu- AMES 146 AMES 3etts Legislature. He was elected presi- and Institutional History during thedent of Harvard College in 1804, but Colonial and Revolutionary Periods
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AMERONGEN CASTLE declined. His work consists of orations,essays, and letters (2 vols., 1854). Hedied in Dedham, July 4, 1808. AMES, HERMAN VANDENBURG,an American educator, bom in Lan-caster, Mass., in 1865. He graduatedfrom Amherst College in 1888 and tookpost-graduate courses in Columbia andHarvard Universities. After three yearson the faculty of the University ofMichigan, he studied at Leipsic andHeidelberg. In 1896 he became assist-ant professor of history in Ohio StateUniversity, and in the following yearhe was appointed instructor in Americanconstitutional history at the Universityof Pennsylvania. In 1908 he was ap-pointed professor of American consti-tutional history in the same institutionand in 1907 he became dean of the Grad-uate School. He gave lectuie courses inother colleges and was a member ofmany important historical societies.Among his popular writings are Out-line of Lectures on American Political (1908); Syllabus of American ColonialHistory (1912), etc. AMES, MARY CLE

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