Union County, SD Biographies.....Ames, Truman 1851 - 
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

TRUMAN AMES, official abstracter and attorney-at-law who has his office and
residence located in Elk Point, is a native of Lake county, Ill., and was born in
1851. He is a son of Elijah and Phoebe T. Ames, natives of Vermont and Pennsylvania,
respectively. Elijah Ames was a farmer by occupation, and came to Illinois at an
early date, being one of the first settlers in the region of Lake county, where his
death occurred in 1886. He was originally a Whig in politics, and subsequently a
Republican, and both he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Mrs. Ames still resides on the old homestead in Lake county, Ill. They were the
parents of eight children, viz.: Walter W., Lydia W., Edmund, Rizpah, Truman, Watie
M., Lillie P. and Luella.

The subject of this personal history was raised on the home farm and educated in the
common schools of his native county. At the age of twenty years he went to Tioga
county, Pa., and worked on his uncle’s farm, attending the district school the first
year and then the state normal school at Mansfield, from which he graduated in 1874.
After his graduation he went to Williamsport and taught one year in a private school
for boys, then he returned to his home in Illinois, and remained a year during which
time he was engaged in farming. On his return to Pennsylvania again he entered the
office of his elder brother Walter W., and studied law for six months, but his
health gave out and he went back to Tioga county, Pa., again where he secured
employment on a farm in summer and taught school in the winter. From there he went
to Williamsport, and read law in the office of his cousin, H. T. Ames, till 1880,
when he was admitted to the bar. After his admission to practice he settled in
Dubois, Clearfield Co., Pa., where he resided and followed his profession for a
period of ten years. In that city he was elected mayor twice, and was appointed to
fill the same vacancy twice, and he also held many of the minor offices of the town.
While a resident of Dubois he was married to Miss Nellie Doyen, a native of Tioga
county, Pa., and a daughter of Warren and Diantha (Grandy) Doyen. Mr. Doyen was a
dentist, and his daughter received her education at the state normal school of
Mansfield, after which she taught school for several years.

Mr. Ames left Pennsylvania in the fall of 1891 and came with his wife and two sons,
Jay H. and Howard T., to visit his parents in Illinois. In the spring of 1892 he
removed to South Dakota, and settled at Elk Point, where he engaged in the practice
of his profession and at the same time opened a set of abstract books. Since his
residence here he has taken an active interest in the welfare of the community and
has purchased a beautiful residence in the city where he makes his home. He is a
stanch Republican and for two years past has been chairman of the county central
committee. He served as justice of the peace in Elk Point during 1894 and ’95, and
is one of the prominent, highly respected citizens and able lawyers of the county.


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