The Ames Family Jubilee of 2001, a reunion for the descendants of Charles Wilberforce and Mary Lesley Ames, gave rise to these biographies.  They could not have been written without the resources of the Ames Family Historical Collection whose papers emerged from Charles and Mary's house soon after the first Jubilee in 1986.

Our AMES is an adoptive name.  Charles Gordon Ames was our first Ames ever.

• Preface
• Charles Gordon Ames (1828-1912), Unwanted Child, Beloved Minister
  
• Sara Jane Daniels Ames (1828-1861), Her Short, Hard, Devoted Life
  
• Charles Wilberforce Ames (1855-1921), The Rich and Varied Life of
• Mary Lesley Ames (1854-1929), Some Notes About
  
• Elizabeth Ames Jackson (1894-1990), Reminiscences