FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: AMBOS, Peter E. (published 1880)
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History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties,  Ohio
Pub by Williams Bros.,  1880

PETER E.  AMBOS

Peter Emil Ambos,  son of Henry Ambos,  was born September 29,  1814, 
in Zweibruken,  Rheinbaiern,  Germany,  where he remained until nearly
seventeen years of age,  when,  in 1830,  he emigrated to America,  and
landed at Norfolk,  Virginia.  He remained in Norfolk two years,  and
worked at making confectionery,  which business he learned,  and in 1832
removed to Columbus,  where he ever after resided.  He opened a
confectionery store on south High street,  in a building situated on the
ground now occupied by Comstock's opera house,  his place of business
being located about where Miss Wilkie's millinery establishment is now
conducted.  There he remained about nine years,  one year of which was
in a partnership with George Egner,  who came with him from Norfolk.  He
came to this country poor in purse,  but rich in the possession of good
habits,  and by strict attention to business,  and stern habits of
integrity,  coupled with an indomitable perseverance,  he laid the
foundation of a successful life,  and was enabled to amass a large
property.  Some nine years after engaging in business here he was
enabled to purchase the ground whereon the present store of Stevenson, 
Ruhl & Company is located,  where he continued the confectionery
business.   This business he disposed of in 1854,  when he became
connected with the Columbus Manufacturing company of which he was
treasurer during the presidency respectively of Samuel Galloway and John
S. Hall.  The name of the company was afterwards changed to the Columbus
Machine company,  of which Mr. Ambos was made president in 1865,  from
which time,  and during the remainder of his life,  he was president and
treasurer.  He was one of the men who organized the First National Bank
of columbus,  in 1863,  and was elected its first vice-president.  After
the death of W.B. Hubbard,  in 1866,  he was made president,  which
office he continued to hold until his death.  He was also president of
the old Capital Insurance company until it was merged into the Franklin
Insurance company.  On the first day of August,  1841,  he was united in
marriage to Dorothea Jaeger,  of this city,  who survives him.  To them
were born three children;  Emelie,  Emil,  and Herman.  Mr. Ambos had
not had good health for several of the later years of his life,  and
while at Kelley's Island,  in the spring of 1866,  he contracted a
severe cold,  which resulted in catarrh of the lungs,  inconsequence of
which he went to the Hot Springs of Arkansas,  whence he returned in May
much improved in health.  He was a man of very regular habits,  and was
generous to a fault.  No charity scarcely appealed to him in vain.  He
was a man of good business qualifications,  and of sterling integrity. 
All who knew him missed him,  and none more so than those who were
intimately associated with him in his business relations.  He was at the
First National Bank up to the closing hours on saturday,  in about his
usual health,  from whence he repaired to his home on south High
street.  Shortly after his arrival at his home he was seized with a
fainting spell,  from which he revived,  and soon after retired to
rest.  About eleven o'clock he was taken with severe vomiting,  and
after this called once for his wife.  Unconsciousness soon followed, 
which continued until his death,  at half past two o'clock Sunday
morning,  June 25,  1877.  The immediate cause of his death was
pronounced apoplexy.  Besides his wife and their children,  he had a
sister in the city,  Mrs. Louis Hoster,  who mourn his death.  As a
banker,  Mr. Ambos was prompt and accurate in judgment,  and faithful to
all interests confided to his care.  Throughout his business career he
was known as a man of unquestionable integrity,  and unblemished honor. 
As a citizen he was enterprising and public spirited,  and assisted much
in all public improvements,  besides contributing largely to charitable
undertakings.  As a neighbor and friend he was cheerful,  intelligent, 
courteous,  and kind,  and at his death left no enemy in the community
wherein he had lived nearly half a century.  A portrait of Peter Emil
Ambos,  together with a representation of his beautiful home on south
High street,  Columbus,  appears in connection with this sketch of his
life.
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