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History of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
The Western Historical Company, Chicago - 1883
A. T. Andreas, Proprietor

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           JOSEPH A. AMES, explorer, real estate dealer and operator in
	 mines and mineral land, was born in Akron , Ohio, December 26,
	 1843, and moved to Oshkosh, Wis . , with his parents in the spring of
	 1855. Three years later , they moved to Omro, Wis. In 1862, when
	 in his twentieth year, Mr. Ames came to Lake Superior, and engaged
	 with Messrs . Douglass & Shelden in their lumber yard. He began
	 as laborer, piling lumber, but was soon given the sole management
	 of their lumber business . He remained in the employ of this firm
	 about twenty years , during which time he was identified with their
	 varied business interests . In 1866 and 1867 , he had charge of sur-
	 face work at the South Pewabic Mine . He had charge of the Houghton
	 Docks three years . Went to Silver Islet, Lake Superior, with com-
	 WILLIAM B. FRUE , and was in charge of sorting and shipping for that
	 pany about nine months , or till the work was suspended in 1871. He
	 had bought into the tug business while in the employ of Sheldon &
	 Douglass. He subsequently had Government contracts for furnishing
	 rock for the cribs of Ontonagon Harbor . He towed the rock from
	 Houghton in 1874. He also towed rock from Drummond's Island for
	 the Sault Canal in 1877 and 1878. From 1872 to 1878, he was a
	 stockholder and Director of the First National Bank of Houghton.
	 In September, 1879, he began operations in the Iron Region, where
	 he has interests in options in several mines and several thousand
	 acres of land. At this writing, he is developing the property of
	 the Iron King and Harney Mining Companies of Baraga County. MR.
	 AMES was married at Houghton, May 21, 1867, to MISS ALICE M. PUTNAM,
	 daughter of HARRISON PUTNAM. MRS. AMES was born in Essex, N.Y. They
	 have six children - four daughters and two sona.

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