Ames, Charles Gordon, 1828-1912
Variant namesLetter stating that "our 'Broad Guage' society is again obliged to seek a minister" and recommending the Rev. Thomas Jay Hoover of Boston for a "month's hearing in Bloomington [Indiana]."
From the description of ALS, 1895 May 17, 12 Chestnut St., Boston, to "Dear Ancient Playmate, Friend and Brother." (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63935982
Unitarian minister. Ordained a Free Baptist minister in 1849. Joined Unitarians in 1858. Minister in Bloomington, Ill. (1859-1862). Represented American Unitarian Association in California (1865). Minister, Germantown, Pa. (1872-1877). Editor, the Christian Register (1877-1880). Minister in Philadelphia (1880-1888), Boston (1888-1912).
From the description of Correspondence, 1891-1910 (inclusive). (Harvard University, Divinity School Library). WorldCat record id: 271815195
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).
From the guide to the Ames, Charles Gordon. Correspondence, 1891-1910., (Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School)
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Birth 1828-10-03
Death 1912-04-15
