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Author: Will T. Hale

   JAMES J. AMBROSE. Noteworthy among the active and prosperous business men of

Nashville is James J. Ambrose, head of the Ambrose Printing Company, which makes

a specialty of various kinds of work, including the printing of railroad blanks,

loose binders, and being known far and wide as the largest railway tariff

printers in the entire South. This enterprising firm likewise does special work

as book and job printers, and as blank book makers, in addition having a

finely-equipped store, fully furnished with the most approved modern machinery

and furniture appliances, and with the assistance of its many competent workmen

are prepared to fill all orders correctly, and promptly. Mr. Ambrose was born in

the city of Bath, England, coming from excellent English ancestry.



   His father, Moses Ambrose, was a native of Newbury, England, where his

parents were life-long residents. After his marriage he opened a mercantile

establishment in the city of Bath, and was there engaged in business until his

death, at the early age of forty-five years. He married, in Wiltshire, England,

Caroline Warman, who was born in Wiltshire, where her father, John Warman, spent

his entire life. She survived her husband, passing away at the age of

seventy-eight years. She reared six children, as follows: Joshua H., who with

his brothers and sisters came to America, and settled in Nashville, became

treasurer of the Nashville, Chattanooga & Saint Louis Railway; Amanda married

Edwin Hughes, of Nashville; Oliver T. is employed in the office of the

Nashville, Chattanooga & Saint Louis Railway; Rosa resides in Nashville; James

J., with whom this sketch is chiefly concerned; and Albert, who died unmarried.



   After the death of his father James J. Ambrose went to Wiltshire to live with

his uncle, Henry Davis, who not only owned and operated a farm and grist mill,

but conducted a general store. There he made himself useful, receiving a fine

business training under the instruction of his uncle, with whom he remained

until twenty years of age. Enlisting then in the British army, Mr. Ambrose

served six months in England, six months in Africa, and five years in India,

after which he was honorably discharged from the service. Immigrating to America

in 1887, Mr. Ambrose located in Nashville, Tennessee, and soon after secured a

position in the freight department of the Nashville, Chattanooga and Saint Louis

Railway, with which he was associated for two years. Forming then a partnership

with Herman Hasslock, he embarked in the printing business as junior member of

the firm of Hasslock & Ambrose, which succeeded to the ownership of the Union

and American Job Printing Plant. This plant is the oldest printing plant in the

city, having been established in 1865 by Colonel Burch. Mr. Ambrose was in

company with Mr. Hasslock for several years, but since severing the partnership

has conducted the business alone. He is exceedingly well patronized in the city

and its suburbs, being an expert in his art, and his work at all times most

satisfactory.



   Mr. Ambrose married, January 29, 1891, Miss May Dew, who was born in

Columbia, Tennessee, of substantial colonial ancestry. Her father, Col. Joseph

Dew, came from Virginia to Tennessee, and for many years carried on farming,

with the assistance of slaves, in Maury county, this state. Colonel Dew married

Margaret Oatman, a daughter of Colonel Oatman, who was born and bred in Vermont,

but after his removal to Maury county, Tennessee, operated a farm with the help

of slaves, although during the Civil war he was a stanch Union man. Mr. and Mrs.

Ambrose have five children, namely: Dew, James, May, Victoria, and Rosanna. Mr.

Ambrose is prominent in social and fraternal circles, belonging to the

Commercial Club and the Hermitage Club, and being a Knight Templar and a

Scottish Rite Mason. He is also a member of the Nashville Board of Trade.

Religiously he is a member of Christ Episcopal church.



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A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in

commerce, industry and modern activities

by Will T. Hale

Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co.,  1913

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