Mary Anderson
Mary Anderson – Oregon teacherBy Mary Norwell and published in the Oregon Observer on November 15, 2023. Mary Almeda Sholts Anderson was born to Professor and Mrs. Arthur Sholts in March, 1897. She spent virtually her entire life on the family farm, just south of Oregon. Her father was a professor and Regent at University […]
Charles Anthony
Charles Anthony was born in Rutland, Wisconsin on April 18, 1857. He married Miss Philena Chidester in December, 1885. For their honeymoon, Chalres and Philena took the noon train to, then went on to Nebraska to spend a few weeks with relatives. In 1888, the spring live Charles lived near became known as Anthony Creek […]
John Norton Ames
JOHN NORTON AMES was born July 7, 1822, in Steuben, Oneida County, New York. He is the son of David H. and Betsy Norton Ames. He was married to Mary Ann Ball on October 24, 1844.
In the autumn of 1845, he and his wife migrated from New York state to Wisconsin and located in Oregon. He lived on the original half-section entered by his grandfather until 1870, and then purchased 240 acres, lying on both sides of the trace of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, two miles south of the Oregon village, and in the heart of the best farming land in that section of Wisconsin. On this farm, he built a large two-story farm house, a substantial basement barn and other buildings; and although he began his independent career with $100, which he had earned as monthly wages, few men made greater or more constant progress.
John Norton and Mary Ann Ames spent their remaining years in Oregon. Mary Ann died on February 4, 1893 at the age of 70 years, 9 months, and 10 days-exactly coincident with that of her mother at death. John N. died on March 2, 1917, at the age of 94 years, 7 months and 23 days. His illness was but 4 days long and his mind was clear until the end. Both John and Mary are buried at Prairie Mound Cemetery in Oregon.
They were blessed with seven children, two of whom died in infancy.
Francis Marion Ames (married August 15, 1876 to Alice Cordelia Main)Marianne AmesGeorge W. AmesSara Amelia Ames (married Sept. 19m 1883 to Hugh Pierce Jamieson)William Lafayette Ames (married Feb. 27, 1894 to Julia Alice Travis)Florence Alma Ames (married Dec. 1, 1892 to Arthur Hamilton Sholts)John Franklin Ames (married April 20, 1882 to Ella P. Starkweather and on May 19, 1891 to Frances Meaker)
Ref. Erfurth, Shirley A. (1991). The Ames Family 1520 to 1991, p.8. On file at the OAHS.
Mary Ann (Ball) AmesWife of John Norton Ames(From the family books compiled by Shirley Erfurth)
David Anthony
I was born in 1806 and was the first Anthony to settle in the State of Wisconsin. I married Jane Runey, the daughter of the first settler in the area. We were the first to be married in the town. We had quite a scare at our wedding as the clergyman was late in arriving. […]
William L. Ames
WILLIAM LAFAYETTE AMES was born April 4, 1857 in Oregon, Dane County, Wisconsin, son of John Norton Ames and Mary Ann Ball Ames. He died June 15, 1951 in Oregon.
Nathaniel Ames
Nathaniel Ames was born in Killingsley, Conn. on April 25, 1761. He enlisted in the continental service for the campaign of 1779. From the beginning until the end he served in the Revolutionary War.
Francis M. Ames
FRANCIS M. AMES is a native-born son of Dane county, and during all of his long and active career he has resided within her confines. He was born in the town of Oregon, March 23, 1847, and is the son of John N. and Mary Ann (Ball) Ames, pioneer settlers of the county, who are deserving of more than a passing mention in a volume devoted to the history of worthy citizens, past and present.John N. Ames was born July 7, 1822, in Steuben, Oneida county, N.Y., and is descended from noble Revolutionary ancestry.
Henry N. Algard
HENRY N. ALGARD, farmer, Sec. 20; P.O. Oregon; born Feb. 20, 1832, in Cayuga Co., N.Y.; son of Joseph and Eliza (Reemer) Algard, both natives of Pennsylvania;