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Oakes Ames
Oakes Ames 1804-73, American manufacturer, railroad promoter, and politician, b. Easton, Mass. With his brother Oliver he managed the family's well-known shovel factory at Easton. The business grew under demands from the expanding Midwest frontier and the Western gold diggings. Active in founding the Republican party in Massachusetts, Ames served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1863 to 1873. Interested in the construction of the Union Pacific RR, Ames secured control of the Crédit Mobilier of America after ousting T. C. Durant , its founder. The financial scandals of that company brought upon Ames in 1872 public disgrace and the censure of Congress. |
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Williams, Ben Ames
Williams, Ben Ames (1889–1953), born in Mississippi, graduated from Dartmouth (1910) and became a journalist in Boston until he published his first novel, All the Brothers Were Valiant (1919). Of his many popular novels, several are detective stories such as The Silver Forest (1926), The Dreadful Night (1928), and Money Musk (1932). Evered (1921), Audacity (1924), and Immortal Longings (1927) are concerned with Maine life; Black Pawl (1922), Touchstone (1930), Honeyflow (1932), Leave Her to Heaven (1944), and It's a Free Country (1945) are character studies; Splendor (1927) deals with newspapermen; Great Oaks (1930), Come Spring (1940), and Time of Peace (1942) are panoramas of American life; House Divided (1947) is a long novel about the Civil War; and The Unconquered (1953) deals with interracial strife in post‐Civil War New Orleans. Thrifty Stock (1923) and other books collect his popular stories. He edited (1949) the Diary of life during the Confederacy by Mary Boykin Chesnut.
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Williams, Ben Ames." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 13 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Williams, Ben Ames." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (February 13, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-WilliamsBenAmes.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Williams, Ben Ames." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved February 13, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-WilliamsBenAmes.html |
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