File:Edgar Ames sitting on a porch at Notchcliff, Elsah (Ill), ca 1890s (PORTRAITS 1182).jpg

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English: Edgar Ames sitting on a porch at Notchcliff, Elsah (Ill.), ca. 1890s   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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English: Edgar Ames sitting on a porch at Notchcliff, Elsah (Ill.), ca. 1890s
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PH Coll 1120.75

Edgar Ames (1868-1944) was born in St. Louis, the youngest child of Edgar Ames (1824-1867) and Lucy Virginia Semple Ames (1836-1929). He entered the banking and financial business in 1894 when he became involved with the Seattle & Lake Washington Waterway Company, contracted to fill the tidelands on the Seattle waterfront. Ames moved to Seattle from Chicago in 1895. He founded the Ames Shipbuilding & Drydock Company in Seattle in 1916, with a modern plant on West Waterway and 26th Avenue SW on Harbor Island. Ames opened his new Ames Terminal Company, a cargo-handling facility, in Seattle in 1922, at the site of the shipyard. The terminal was a center of salmon shipping activity, handling the entire pack of the large Libby, McNeil and Libby Company fisheries. He was also president of the Seattle General Contract Company. Married to Anne, had daughter Margaret Baillargeon (1899) Notchcliff was the summer mansion built around 1872 in Elsah Illinois by Lucy V. Semple Ames, daughter of Elsah's founder, General James Semple.

  • Subjects (LCSH): Ames, Edgar, 1869-1944; Businesspeople--Portraits
Depicted place Elsah, Illinois
Date circa 1895
date QS:P571,+1895-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
institution QS:P195,Q219563
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University of Washington: Special Collections
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1182
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English: Portraits Collection
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.
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POR1159

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