Edwin Gardner Ames papers, 1856-1931 (bulk 1887-1927).

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Edwin Gardner Ames papers, 1856-1931 (bulk 1887-1927).

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The papers consist of personal and business correspondence, letter books, notebooks, financial and insurance records, court papers, notebooks, and maps. Included are records relating to the Walker-Ames Company, William Walker, Cyrus Walker, Emily Talbot Walker, Talbot Cyrus Walker, the Puget Lumber Company, the Puget Sound Trading Company, the Puget Sound Commercial Company, the Puget Sound Tug Boat Company, the Puget Mill Company, the Rainier Investment Company, the Admiralty Tug Boat Company, the Hall Brothers Marine Ry and Ship Building Co., the Douglas Fir Exploitation and Export Company, the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, the Pacific Coast Lumber Manufacturers' Association, the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company, the Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau, the Admiralty Logging Company, the Puget Sound Stevedoring Company, Pope & Talbot, the General Insurance Company of America, the Western Forestry and Conservation Association, the Washington Forest Fire Association, Drummond Lighterage Company, Hughes, McMicken, Dovell & Ramsey (law firm), the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, the First National Bank (Port Townsend, Washington), the Metropolitan Building Company, the National Bank of Commerce, the Puget Sound Cedar & Lumber Company, Union Savings and Trust Company (Seattle, Washington), the Puget Sound Navigation Company, the Port Blakely Mill Company, and the Grays Harbor Commercial Company. Other persons represented in the papers include Ames's father, John Keller Ames; mother, Sarah (Albee) Ames; Victor H. Beckman, Julius H. Bloedel, Edward James Brown, Patrick P. Carroll, Richard W. Condon, Martin L. Davey, George Donworth, Jacob Furth, De Witt C. Hitchcock, William E. Humphrey, Albert Johnson, Wesley Livsey Jones, Bertha Knight Landes, John J. McGilvra, Edward F. Merrill, John Franklin Miller, Edward B. Palmer, Will H. Parry, George E. Plummer, Miles Poindexter, George A. Pope, Mark E. Reed, Frederick C. Talbot, William H. Talbot, Talbot C. Walker, and Hugo Winkenwerder.

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