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AMES, Edward Raymond, bishop, born in Athens, Ohio, 20 May 1806; died in Baltimore, 25 April 1879. He studied for two years at the Ohio State University, and m 1828 opened a high school at Lebanon, Illinois, which in time grew into McKendree College. Here he remained until 1830, when he joined the Indiana Methodist Episcopal conference and became an itinerant minister. At the general conference for 1840 he was chosen corresponding secretary of the missionary society, and rode through the South and West and among the Indian tribes, a distance of more than 25,000 miles. He was a presiding elder from 1844 to 1852, and was then chosen bishop. He was the first Methodist bishop to visit the Pacific coast. During the civil war he rendered important service as a member of several commissions.
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