Edgar Ames was a St. Louis meat packer, banker & insurance executive with a distinguished civic record. He helped obtain the legislation that enabled the construction of the Eads Bridge.
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Daily Missouri Republican (St. Louis, MO) Dec. 10, 1867 Tue. Pg 2
The intelligence of the death of Edgar Ames was received yesterday by the public with painful surprise and unfeigned sorrow. He died at this residence in this city, about four o'clock yesterday afternoon, at the age of forty-two years. Mr. Ames was a native of Ohio He came to this city in the year 1843, to engage in business with his father and with his brother, the late Henry Ames, who died, universally regretted, in August 1866. The business career of Mr. Edgar Ames was a highly honorable and successful one, and in commercial circles we can scarcely think of a merchant whose death would occasion such a void as his. Commanding large means, large-minded and public-spirited in his views, he was conspicuously identified with public enterprises and institutions in which the commercial prosperity of St. Louis was involved. He was First Vice President of the Merchants' Exchange, Director in the State Savings Institution and the Pacific insurance company, in the Atlantic and Mississippi Steamship Company and the United States Insurance Company, in the Memphis Packet Company and the St. Louis Sugar Refinery. Besides this every public enterprise sought and engaged his counsel and cooperation, and commanded his liberal support. In bank and on "Change" he was distinguished as one of the merchant princes and honorable men of St. Louis, whose commercial wisdom and clear headed judgment gave value and influence to his opinions, and made him an example and a guide. Engaged more immediately in the pork business, he wielded a very large capital, and by the integrity of his transactions he won for his house a reputation for mercantile honor and liberality as extensive as the Republic. Brought into daily contact with the leading businessmen of the city, by his sterling personal worth and business qualities, he enlisted in his behalf the cordial friendly confidence and attachment of the most honorable and the best. Generously large in his views, he supported with princely liberality the large undertakings of St. Louis. He was no niggard in his contributions. As an illustration of this, when it was proposed to rebuild the Kindell Hotel, he volunteered to subscribe one hundred thousand dollars to the enterprise. Whatever he believed would advance the prosperity of the city, he aided with discriminating judgment and exemplary liberality. Energetic and industrious, he was wisely courageous and adventurous and augmented his fortune by sagacious reliance upon the signs of the present and by promptly turning to his own account the tide of the coming future. He made it his aim to increase his wealth, and he worked for it ambitiously and untiringly. When asked once, "Why he worked so hard?" being already possessed of wealth far beyond his need, his response was, "I work to make money to beautify our city."
In his death St Louis has lost one who could not well be spared; in the very prime of his life and in the full tide of his success, at a time when his head and heart were full of plans from the execution of which the community in which he lived and was honored would have reaped large benefits. His memory will be cherished with unceasing regret by the thousands in St. Louis who in the lifetime of Henry and Edgar Ames counted the city honored and distinguished by two such merchant princes.
Mr. Edgar Ames, in 1860, married the second daughter of Hon. James Semple, once United States Senator from Illinois. She, with three children, survives him, and in their grief they thus have suffered they have the affectionate sympathy of all who knew their most estimable husband and father.
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Daily Missouri Republican (St. Louis, MO) Dec. 10, 1867 Tue. Pg 2
The intelligence of the death of Edgar Ames was received yesterday by the public with painful surprise and unfeigned sorrow. He died at this residence in this city, about four o'clock yesterday afternoon, at the age of forty-two years. Mr. Ames was a native of Ohio He came to this city in the year 1843, to engage in business with his father and with his brother, the late Henry Ames, who died, universally regretted, in August 1866. The business career of Mr. Edgar Ames was a highly honorable and successful one, and in commercial circles we can scarcely think of a merchant whose death would occasion such a void as his. Commanding large means, large-minded and public-spirited in his views, he was conspicuously identified with public enterprises and institutions in which the commercial prosperity of St. Louis was involved. He was First Vice President of the Merchants' Exchange, Director in the State Savings Institution and the Pacific insurance company, in the Atlantic and Mississippi Steamship Company and the United States Insurance Company, in the Memphis Packet Company and the St. Louis Sugar Refinery. Besides this every public enterprise sought and engaged his counsel and cooperation, and commanded his liberal support. In bank and on "Change" he was distinguished as one of the merchant princes and honorable men of St. Louis, whose commercial wisdom and clear headed judgment gave value and influence to his opinions, and made him an example and a guide. Engaged more immediately in the pork business, he wielded a very large capital, and by the integrity of his transactions he won for his house a reputation for mercantile honor and liberality as extensive as the Republic. Brought into daily contact with the leading businessmen of the city, by his sterling personal worth and business qualities, he enlisted in his behalf the cordial friendly confidence and attachment of the most honorable and the best. Generously large in his views, he supported with princely liberality the large undertakings of St. Louis. He was no niggard in his contributions. As an illustration of this, when it was proposed to rebuild the Kindell Hotel, he volunteered to subscribe one hundred thousand dollars to the enterprise. Whatever he believed would advance the prosperity of the city, he aided with discriminating judgment and exemplary liberality. Energetic and industrious, he was wisely courageous and adventurous and augmented his fortune by sagacious reliance upon the signs of the present and by promptly turning to his own account the tide of the coming future. He made it his aim to increase his wealth, and he worked for it ambitiously and untiringly. When asked once, "Why he worked so hard?" being already possessed of wealth far beyond his need, his response was, "I work to make money to beautify our city."
In his death St Louis has lost one who could not well be spared; in the very prime of his life and in the full tide of his success, at a time when his head and heart were full of plans from the execution of which the community in which he lived and was honored would have reaped large benefits. His memory will be cherished with unceasing regret by the thousands in St. Louis who in the lifetime of Henry and Edgar Ames counted the city honored and distinguished by two such merchant princes.
Mr. Edgar Ames, in 1860, married the second daughter of Hon. James Semple, once United States Senator from Illinois. She, with three children, survives him, and in their grief they thus have suffered they have the affectionate sympathy of all who knew their most estimable husband and father.
Edgar Ames was a St. Louis meat packer, banker & insurance executive with a distinguished civic record. He helped obtain the legislation that enabled the construction of the Eads Bridge.
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Daily Missouri Republican (St. Louis, MO) Dec. 10, 1867 Tue. Pg 2
The intelligence of the death of Edgar Ames was received yesterday by the public with painful surprise and unfeigned sorrow. He died at this residence in this city, about four o'clock yesterday afternoon, at the age of forty-two years. Mr. Ames was a native of Ohio He came to this city in the year 1843, to engage in business with his father and with his brother, the late Henry Ames, who died, universally regretted, in August 1866. The business career of Mr. Edgar Ames was a highly honorable and successful one, and in commercial circles we can scarcely think of a merchant whose death would occasion such a void as his. Commanding large means, large-minded and public-spirited in his views, he was conspicuously identified with public enterprises and institutions in which the commercial prosperity of St. Louis was involved. He was First Vice President of the Merchants' Exchange, Director in the State Savings Institution and the Pacific insurance company, in the Atlantic and Mississippi Steamship Company and the United States Insurance Company, in the Memphis Packet Company and the St. Louis Sugar Refinery. Besides this every public enterprise sought and engaged his counsel and cooperation, and commanded his liberal support. In bank and on "Change" he was distinguished as one of the merchant princes and honorable men of St. Louis, whose commercial wisdom and clear headed judgment gave value and influence to his opinions, and made him an example and a guide. Engaged more immediately in the pork business, he wielded a very large capital, and by the integrity of his transactions he won for his house a reputation for mercantile honor and liberality as extensive as the Republic. Brought into daily contact with the leading businessmen of the city, by his sterling personal worth and business qualities, he enlisted in his behalf the cordial friendly confidence and attachment of the most honorable and the best. Generously large in his views, he supported with princely liberality the large undertakings of St. Louis. He was no niggard in his contributions. As an illustration of this, when it was proposed to rebuild the Kindell Hotel, he volunteered to subscribe one hundred thousand dollars to the enterprise. Whatever he believed would advance the prosperity of the city, he aided with discriminating judgment and exemplary liberality. Energetic and industrious, he was wisely courageous and adventurous and augmented his fortune by sagacious reliance upon the signs of the present and by promptly turning to his own account the tide of the coming future. He made it his aim to increase his wealth, and he worked for it ambitiously and untiringly. When asked once, "Why he worked so hard?" being already possessed of wealth far beyond his need, his response was, "I work to make money to beautify our city."
In his death St Louis has lost one who could not well be spared; in the very prime of his life and in the full tide of his success, at a time when his head and heart were full of plans from the execution of which the community in which he lived and was honored would have reaped large benefits. His memory will be cherished with unceasing regret by the thousands in St. Louis who in the lifetime of Henry and Edgar Ames counted the city honored and distinguished by two such merchant princes.
Mr. Edgar Ames, in 1860, married the second daughter of Hon. James Semple, once United States Senator from Illinois. She, with three children, survives him, and in their grief they thus have suffered they have the affectionate sympathy of all who knew their most estimable husband and father.
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Daily Missouri Republican (St. Louis, MO) Dec. 10, 1867 Tue. Pg 2
The intelligence of the death of Edgar Ames was received yesterday by the public with painful surprise and unfeigned sorrow. He died at this residence in this city, about four o'clock yesterday afternoon, at the age of forty-two years. Mr. Ames was a native of Ohio He came to this city in the year 1843, to engage in business with his father and with his brother, the late Henry Ames, who died, universally regretted, in August 1866. The business career of Mr. Edgar Ames was a highly honorable and successful one, and in commercial circles we can scarcely think of a merchant whose death would occasion such a void as his. Commanding large means, large-minded and public-spirited in his views, he was conspicuously identified with public enterprises and institutions in which the commercial prosperity of St. Louis was involved. He was First Vice President of the Merchants' Exchange, Director in the State Savings Institution and the Pacific insurance company, in the Atlantic and Mississippi Steamship Company and the United States Insurance Company, in the Memphis Packet Company and the St. Louis Sugar Refinery. Besides this every public enterprise sought and engaged his counsel and cooperation, and commanded his liberal support. In bank and on "Change" he was distinguished as one of the merchant princes and honorable men of St. Louis, whose commercial wisdom and clear headed judgment gave value and influence to his opinions, and made him an example and a guide. Engaged more immediately in the pork business, he wielded a very large capital, and by the integrity of his transactions he won for his house a reputation for mercantile honor and liberality as extensive as the Republic. Brought into daily contact with the leading businessmen of the city, by his sterling personal worth and business qualities, he enlisted in his behalf the cordial friendly confidence and attachment of the most honorable and the best. Generously large in his views, he supported with princely liberality the large undertakings of St. Louis. He was no niggard in his contributions. As an illustration of this, when it was proposed to rebuild the Kindell Hotel, he volunteered to subscribe one hundred thousand dollars to the enterprise. Whatever he believed would advance the prosperity of the city, he aided with discriminating judgment and exemplary liberality. Energetic and industrious, he was wisely courageous and adventurous and augmented his fortune by sagacious reliance upon the signs of the present and by promptly turning to his own account the tide of the coming future. He made it his aim to increase his wealth, and he worked for it ambitiously and untiringly. When asked once, "Why he worked so hard?" being already possessed of wealth far beyond his need, his response was, "I work to make money to beautify our city."
In his death St Louis has lost one who could not well be spared; in the very prime of his life and in the full tide of his success, at a time when his head and heart were full of plans from the execution of which the community in which he lived and was honored would have reaped large benefits. His memory will be cherished with unceasing regret by the thousands in St. Louis who in the lifetime of Henry and Edgar Ames counted the city honored and distinguished by two such merchant princes.
Mr. Edgar Ames, in 1860, married the second daughter of Hon. James Semple, once United States Senator from Illinois. She, with three children, survives him, and in their grief they thus have suffered they have the affectionate sympathy of all who knew their most estimable husband and father.
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