BUTLER AMES
Ames, Butler (1871-1954), (son of Adelbert Ames and
grandson of Benjamin Franklin Butler), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Lowell, Middlesex County, Mass.,
August 22, 1871; attended the public schools and Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H.; was graduated from the
United States Military Academy at West Point in 1894; resigned from the United States Army after appointment as
second lieutenant to the Eleventh Regiment, United States Infantry; took a postgraduate course at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and was graduated in 1896 as a mechanical and electrical engineer; engaged in manufacturing;
served as a member of the common council of Lowell in 1896; enlisted during the Spanish-American War and was
commissioned lieutenant and adjutant of the Sixth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry; appointed acting
engineer officer of the Second Army Corps under General Graham, in addition to his duties as adjutant; was promoted
to lieutenant colonel in August 1898; served as civil administrator of the Arecibo district of Puerto Rico until
November 1898; member of the Massachusetts house of representatives 1897-1899; elected as a Republican to the
Fifty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1913); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1912; resumed manufacturing pursuits; president of United States Cartridge Co., and treasurer of
Heinze Electrical Co. of Lowell; at time of death was treasurer and a director of Wamesit Power Co. of Lowell,
Mass.; director of Union Land and Grazing Co., Colorado Springs, Colo., and vice president and a director of Ames
Textile Corp., Lowell, Mass.; died in Tewksbury, Middlesex, Mass., November 6, 1954; interment in Hildreth Family
Cemetery, Lowell, Mass.
Parents: Adelbert Ames, Blanche Butler
Spouse: Fifille Willis b. abt 1890 Texas
Sources:
United States Federal Census Vital Records The Political Graveyard
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