File:WEBB(1892) p483 - Thomas, Ammi A.jpg
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| Date | 1892 | ||||
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British Library HMNTS 10412.i.12. |
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Ammi Amery Thomas was born in Genesee County, New York, in 1847. He received a common-schooland academic education in Wisconsin, in which State he enlisted as a soldier at the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion in 1861. He was taken prisoner by the Confederates, and detained in the prisons at Cahawba, Alabama, and Columbia, South Carolina, for upward of six months, during which period he experienced more than the usual amount of privation, suffering, and humiliation, together with no small amount of romance. After an honorable discharge from the army he entered upon the study of law at Milwaukee, was admitted to practice, and in 1870 was appointed United States Deputy Marshal for the State for the purpose of taking the census. He afterward removed to Kansas, where he received the appointment of register of the United States Land Office at Kirwia, holding that position there and at Cawka City more than four years. At the expiration of this service,he removed to the city of Washington to engage in the practice of law, naturally drifting into the prosecution of claims before the several departments. In 1881, he commenced publishing a periodical named The Reporter, with the determination of securing reforms in some of the methods in the departments, which had become generally obnoxious, and in this determination he was thoroughly successful. Prompted by a desire to become more actively engagedin business pursuits, he became a director in the Second National Bank, in the United States Electric Lighting Company, in the American Security and Trust Company, in the Metropolitan Railroad Company, and in various other business enterprises. He is now president of the United States Electric Lighting Company, Vicepresident of the American Security and Trust Company, and in all of these companies he takes a leading part in their advancement. His career throughout has been one of great activity and abundant success. |
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Image extracted from page 483 of Centennial History of the city of Washington, D.C., by WEBB, William B. - and WOOLDRIDGE (John) of Cleveland, Ohio. Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied from Flickr. Note: The colours, contrast and appearance of these illustrations are unlikely to be true to life. They are derived from scanned images that have been enhanced for machine interpretation and have been altered from their originals.
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