Bio of Ames, Ernest Raymond (b.1880) and Archie Glenn (b.1882) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1920.
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Ames, Ernest Raymond and Archie Glenn (page 473), proprietors of a
320-acre stock farm in section 30, Minneiska Township, are well known
throughout southeastern Minnesota as successful swine and cattle breeders.
They were born at Gilmanton, Buffalo County, Wisconsin. Earnest R. on
January 30, 1880, and Archie G. on June 10, 1882. The parents were Alonzo
G. and Emma (Hyatt) Ames. The father, born in the state of Maine in 1836,
was of English ancestry, and when young came with his parents to Sheboygan
County, Wisconsin, where about 1848 they settled on a farm. There Alonzo
G. was brought up and remained until reaching the age of 21. His marriage
to Emma Hyatt occurred September 25, 1859, and soon after that event he
went with his wife to Missouri. A year and a half later the Civil War
broke out, but Alonzo G. Ames saw the trend of events, and before Fort
Sumter was fired on, he escaped in the night, accompanied by his wife, in
order to avoid forcible enlistment in the Home Guard. After reaching
Wisconsin he enlisted in the First Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry and served
with that regiment until the close of the war. It was attached to the Army
of the Tennessee and Mr. Ames served under Generals Meade, Buell and
Rosekranz, taking part in the principal battles participated in by the
army, including that of Chattanooga. Near Hingham, Sheboygan County, Wis.,
he bought a farm of 90 acres, on which he resided nine years. At the end
of theat time he removed with his family to Buffalo County, in that same
state, and for about nine years operated a farm of 300 acres in Gilman
Valley, near Alma. He then sold out, intending to go to Nebraska, but,
having changed his mind, took a farm of 201 acres in Dover Township,
Buffalo County, which property still remains in the family. Alonzo G. Ames
died very suddenly on January 9, 1906. He and his wife were the parents of
six children: Minerva E., born in Missouri, November 11, 1860, and now
Mrs. L. J. Patterson, of St. Charles, Minn.; Eulah Ethel, born August 11,
1866, who married Warren Alt, of Mondovi Township, Buffalo County, Wis.,
and is now residing in Los Angeles, Calif.; Mary L., born August 13, 1869,
who is also a resident of Los Angeles; Charlotte E., born November 12,
1872, who is the wife of Christian A. Berg, residing in Hollywood, a
suburb of Los Angeles; and Ernest Raymond and Archie Glenn, the dates of
whose nativity have been already given. The subjects of this sketch both
attended school in Dover township, Buffalo County, Wis., Ernest Raymond
also taking three terms in the agricultural college at Madison, and Archie
Glenn one term in the Winona Business College. Under their father's
instructions and direction, they acquired a good practical knowledge of
agriculture and stock raising, and after his death remained for one year
on the farm in Dover Township, Buffalo County. They then came to
Minnesota, Ernest R., or Ray, as he is usually called in the family,
becoming clerk in the hardware store of C. A. Berg, his brother-in-law, at
Winona. Within a year or two Mr. Berg sold out and went to California, and
the two brothers, in 1909, formed a partnership and took their present
farm, which they have since operated, making a specialty of stock
breeding. In this line of industry they have made a wide reputation, and
their sales are attended by farmers from many miles around and all parts
of the United States. At one of these sales, in September, 1919, they sold
55 head of swine, realizing an aggregate sum of $15,210. This is said to
have been one of the largest sales ever held in the state. On January 27,
1920, 37 head of hogs were sold for $22,470, and average price of $607 per
head, the highest average attained in the state to that time, one sow
selling for $2,525. On March 2, 1920, 42 head sold for $25,100, including
Leader of Fashion, the boar which sold to the Underwood Farm, of Lake City
for $10,000 and other consideration valued at $2,500. This is the world's
record price for under one year old boar; it was sired by Premier
Sensation. During the winter of 1919-20 the Ames Brothers purchased at
leading sales in different states about $30,000 worth of breeding sows,
paying for one $4,000, which is the highest price sow in the state. They
figure on an average about 400 Duroc-Jersey hogs, and about 100 head of
cattle of the Guernsey breed; the hogs being registered, high-priced
stock, and the cattle part registered and part grade stock. Before
engaging in the breeding of registered stock, the Ames brothers were
engaged in the silo business, erecting many silos in Wabasha County and
southern Minnesota. When they first came to their present farm, it had
been rented out for 20 years previously, and was in a poor and dilapidated
condition, the land being overgrown with wild oats, mustard, and other
weeds, and for some time it was uphill work to get the place into good
shape. This task, however, they have accomplished, and now have a splendid
piece of property, with excellent buildings of modern type. Archie G. is
secretary of the local creamery at Weaver, and of the state Duroc Fellows.
Ernest Raymond Ames was married, in May, 1907, to Clara Kahl, of Winona,
daughter of H. G. Kahl, and has three children: Ronald, aged 12 years;
Charlotte, aged 8, and Roberta, aged 3. Archie Glenn Ames was married, at
Mondovi, Wis., October 25, 1911, to Emma A. LaDuke, and has three
children: Eleanor Ailee, born November 6, 1913; Glenna Jean, born May 24,
1915; and Audrey Emma, born May 7, 1917. Mrs. Emma Ames, the widowed
mother of the Ames brothers, resides with them on the farm during summers
and the winters in California with her daughters.

Since the above article was written news has been received of the death of
Ernest Raymond Ames, who passed away at the Winona General Hospital, on
Wednesday, June 30, 1920, after an operation for appendicitis, performed
on the previous Sunday at midnight. The funeral was held Friday afternoon,
July 2, from the home, and burial was at Hillside Cemetery, Minneiska.
Hosts of relatives and friends from the immediate neighbors and
surrounding states attended. The Rev. Jesse Kenderdine, of Winona, and
Rev. Stanley Kenderdine, of Minneiska, conducted the services. At the
cemetery the I.O.O.F. Lodge of Plainview performed the ceremonies
according to the ritual of the Order.