Mobile-Montgomery County AlArchives Biographies.....Ames, Whiting December 31, 1853 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carolyn Golowka http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00012.html#0002972 June 9, 2009, 8:33 pm Author: “Memorial Record of Alabama,” Volume 2, published by Brant & Fuller in Madison, WI (1893), page 500 Whiting Ames, clerk of the circuit court of Mobile county, was born in Montgomery, Ala., December 31, 1853. His father was Dr. Silas Ames, a physician by profession who died while his son was a child. The mother was Sarah Tarlton, who died in 1853, leaving her son an infant. Left thus without father or mother at an early age, he was raised by his elder sisters, and in 1865 accompanied one of them to Mobile, which city has ever since been his home. He was educated at the Spring Hill college and at the Virginia military institute, spending three years in the former and two in the latter. In 1870 he entered the employ of Tarlton, Ledyard & Co., cotton merchants of Mobile, and remained with them in a clerical capacity for a number of years, the firm in the meantime undergoing several changes in its membership. In 1886 he was elected clerk of the circuit court of Mobile for a term of six years, and is now serving in that capacity. In politics he is a democrat, and has frequently been a delegate to the democratic state conventions. He is a member of the order of Knights of Pythias. He was married April 26, 1883, to Miss Helena P. Maguire, of Mobile, a daughter of P. G. Maguire, formerly of that place. Additional Comments: Montgomery Alabama marriage records show that Dr. Silas Ames married Jane M. Tarleton on March 7, 1832, by Fields Bradshaw, marriage book D, page 33. The 1850 US Census, page 123B, shows Silas, born about 1805 in Virginia, and his wife, Jane, born about 1813 in New Hampshire, and children: Georgiana, age 16 Sarah, age 12 Julia, age 8 Melvin, age 6 Jane, age 3 Wm J., age 1 all born in Alabama. Georgiana T. Ames married A. M. Loiver on February 3, 1852, in Montgomery County. Sarah F. Ames married Samuel C. Oliver on April 16, 1857, in Montgomery County. In 1860, Whiting is living with his sister, Georgiana Oliver. He is listed as 9 years old. Also in the family are Georgiana and A. M. Oliver's children Thomas A, age 6 and Mack, age 5, as well as Georgiana's sister Julia, age 17, brother Melvin, age 12, and Whiting. A. M. Oliver is an M.D. Whiting is living with who appears to be his sister, Julia Gray and her son, Jas. W. Gray, in the 1870 US Census, Mobile. The are all in the household of Thomas M. LeBaron and his wife, Jane (age 22), and their son, Charles, age 2. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/mobile/bios/ames68nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/alfiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb