BIO: Dan Henry Ames, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                             CHAPTER XLIV.

                           DICKINSON TOWNSHIP.

459 	DICKINSON TOWNSHIP.

  DAN HENRY AMES, farmer, P. O. Mooredale, was born in Cincinnati, 
Ohio, May 11, 1860.  His father, Dr. Fisher W. Ames, was a native of 
Cincinnati and a graduate of Ohio Medical College, and was for many 
years a very successful medical practitioner in Cincinnati.  Dr. Ames 
rendered valuable services to the Government, as surgeon of the Sixth 
Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, during the war of the Rebellion.  
During President Grant's administration, the Doctor held the position 
of United States Consul at St. Domingo, for about six years, and then 
resigned on account of ill health; he died in 1872.  His wife, 
Catherine (Hendricks) Fisher, died in 1872.  Dan Henry Ames, after 
attending the Cincinnati High School, completed his education at 
Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio.  He purchased a farm near Abilene, Kas., 
where he located in 1879, and while there he married, December 9, 1880, 
Cyprianna Hutchison, a native of Dickinson Township, this county.  Her 
parents, William A. and Elizabeth Hutchison, now reside in Huntsdale, 
this county.  In March, 1881, Mr. and Mrs. Ames came to this county and 
located permanently in Dickinson Township, where they have a fine farm 
of 100 acres of land, on which they have erected an elegant brick 
residence and substantial farm buildings; they also own another farm of 
97 acres in same township.  To Mr. and Mrs. Ames has been born one son, 
Kenneth Fisher Ames.  In politics Mr. Ames is a Republican.  He is a 
gentleman of upright character and of modest demeanor, a man of 
excellent influence in the community.