Ames, Edward Raymond, 1806-1879

Edward Raymond Ames was born in Amesville, Ohio, May 20, 1806 and died in Baltimore, April 25, 1879. He studied at the University of Ohio. He became a Methodist, and in 1828, traveled to Illinois, where, in Lebanon, he founded the school which later became McKendree College. In 1830 Ames joined the Indiana Methodist Episcopal conference, became a traveling preacher, and rode through the South and West, and among the Indian tribes, a distance of more than 25,000 miles. During his twenty years of traveling, he served as the chaplain of the Choctaw General Council at the tribe's request, and as president of Asbury College. He was the first Methodist leader to reach the Pacific coast. In 1852 he was elected bishop at a Boston conference.

From the description of Edward Raymond Ames family papers 1823-1855. (Peking University Library). WorldCat record id: 61275333

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