Ezekiel H. Ames Biography


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EZEKIEL H. AMES, treasurer of Brule county, South Dakota, and a farmer 
by occupation, is one of the prominent citizens of his community. He is 
residing in Chamberlain city, and his farm is near Bijou Hills. Mr. 
Ames is of English-Scotch descent, and the eldest of a family of nine 
children, born to George W. and Mary (Hooper) Ames. His birth occurred 
in Adams county, Indiana, May 26, 1844. 

The first farming done by our subject was on lands which he purchased 
in his native county after the close of the war. He established a 
lumber business in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1 870, and in 1 876 again 
engaged in farming in Marshall county, Indiana, and moved to Dakota, in 
1882, and settled in Bijou Hills, Brule county. He developed a stock 
farm, and at present owns one section of land, about one hundred and 
fifty acres of which are under cultivation. Water is abundant, and 
obtained at a depth of from fifteen to thirty-five feet. He has a well 
improved farm, and finds stock raising very profitable for that 
locality. 

August 14, 1862, Mr. Ames enlisted in Company I, Eighty-ninth Indiana 
Volunteer Infantry. He was captured at Munfordville, Kentucky, and 
after two days as prisoner, was sent into parole camp at Indianapolis, 
and in the latter part of 1862, was exchanged and put on guard duty in 
Tennessee. Being one of the Sixteenth Army Corps, he was sent on the 
Red River expedition, and engaged in the battle of Nashville and the 
siege of Mobile. He was mustered out in the latter place July 18, 1865. 

Our subject was married in 1866 to Miss Ione C. Battenberg. To Mr. and 
Mrs. Ames have been born four children: Bertha W., now Mrs. A. F. 
Winter; Charles W., conducting his father's farm; Ida R., deceased; and 
George B., a student at Yankton College. In 1897 Mr. Ames was elected 
county treasurer, and is at present serving his second term in that 
capacity. He has conducted the affairs of Brule county in an able 
manner, and is respected by all within its borders. In political views 
he is a Populist, favors state control of the liquor traffic, and 
opposes equal suffrage. He is a worthy member of the G. A. R.