Son of Ezra C. Ames and Joanna (Eames).
Graduated Dartmouth College class of 1839.
Married Mary (Morse) Phipps June 17, 1851, Haverhill, Mass.
Record of the Times (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) 10 Mar 1877, Page 1.
DEATH of a JUDGE
Judge Isaac Ames, died of pneumonia in Boston yesterday. He was born at Haverhill, Mass., July 17, 1817. He graduated at Dartmouth and was appointed Judge of Probate for Suffolk county, May 13, 1858. Two years previous to this he was appointed he been appointed Commissioner and Judge of Insolvency.
Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) 10 Mar 1877, Page 3
Judge Isaac Ames
Isaac Ames, Judge of the Probate Court for the county of Suffolk, died March 9, 1877, leaving a wife but, no children. He left his court-room for the last time about a week before his death, suffering from an attack of pleurisy. Judge Ames was born July 17, 1819 in Haverhill, Mass., entered Dartmouth College in 1835, at the age of sixteen, and graduated with his class in 1839. He was studious and ambitious, and of unexceptional good habits, he led his class through his college course. His college room-mate was Charles Chauncey Chase, Esq., long Principal of the High School in Lowell. He was early admitted to the bar, but was not long permitted to practice law in Boston, for his legal attainments, sound judgement, and his unusually quick perceptive faculties gained him the appointment of Judge of Probate and Insolvency for the County of Suffolk, by Governor Gardner, during the Know-Nothing movement. The financial crisis of 1857 occurred two years after his appointment and resulted in a great number of heavy failures, and proceedings in insolvency in his court, which devolved on him a very large amount of business requiring prompt decisions in many important and intricate questions, almost daily. He proved equal to the task. It was surprising to witness the readiness and despatch to which he solved those questions arising respecting mercantile paper, and the duties and obligations of makers, endorsers and holders thereof. His decisions were usually made in a clear ringing voice on the spot. Very few appealed from his judgement. Physically he was a small man, weighing about 100 pounds, but the citizens generally of his county will accord to him intellectual greatness, a well-balanced mind, strict integrity, watchful care of the widow and fatherless, kind, social, and sincere in his friendships, and a just judge in every respect.
Graduated Dartmouth College class of 1839.
Married Mary (Morse) Phipps June 17, 1851, Haverhill, Mass.
Record of the Times (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) 10 Mar 1877, Page 1.
DEATH of a JUDGE
Judge Isaac Ames, died of pneumonia in Boston yesterday. He was born at Haverhill, Mass., July 17, 1817. He graduated at Dartmouth and was appointed Judge of Probate for Suffolk county, May 13, 1858. Two years previous to this he was appointed he been appointed Commissioner and Judge of Insolvency.
Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) 10 Mar 1877, Page 3
Judge Isaac Ames
Isaac Ames, Judge of the Probate Court for the county of Suffolk, died March 9, 1877, leaving a wife but, no children. He left his court-room for the last time about a week before his death, suffering from an attack of pleurisy. Judge Ames was born July 17, 1819 in Haverhill, Mass., entered Dartmouth College in 1835, at the age of sixteen, and graduated with his class in 1839. He was studious and ambitious, and of unexceptional good habits, he led his class through his college course. His college room-mate was Charles Chauncey Chase, Esq., long Principal of the High School in Lowell. He was early admitted to the bar, but was not long permitted to practice law in Boston, for his legal attainments, sound judgement, and his unusually quick perceptive faculties gained him the appointment of Judge of Probate and Insolvency for the County of Suffolk, by Governor Gardner, during the Know-Nothing movement. The financial crisis of 1857 occurred two years after his appointment and resulted in a great number of heavy failures, and proceedings in insolvency in his court, which devolved on him a very large amount of business requiring prompt decisions in many important and intricate questions, almost daily. He proved equal to the task. It was surprising to witness the readiness and despatch to which he solved those questions arising respecting mercantile paper, and the duties and obligations of makers, endorsers and holders thereof. His decisions were usually made in a clear ringing voice on the spot. Very few appealed from his judgement. Physically he was a small man, weighing about 100 pounds, but the citizens generally of his county will accord to him intellectual greatness, a well-balanced mind, strict integrity, watchful care of the widow and fatherless, kind, social, and sincere in his friendships, and a just judge in every respect.
Son of Ezra C. Ames and Joanna (Eames).
Graduated Dartmouth College class of 1839.
Married Mary (Morse) Phipps June 17, 1851, Haverhill, Mass.
Record of the Times (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) 10 Mar 1877, Page 1.
DEATH of a JUDGE
Judge Isaac Ames, died of pneumonia in Boston yesterday. He was born at Haverhill, Mass., July 17, 1817. He graduated at Dartmouth and was appointed Judge of Probate for Suffolk county, May 13, 1858. Two years previous to this he was appointed he been appointed Commissioner and Judge of Insolvency.
Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) 10 Mar 1877, Page 3
Judge Isaac Ames
Isaac Ames, Judge of the Probate Court for the county of Suffolk, died March 9, 1877, leaving a wife but, no children. He left his court-room for the last time about a week before his death, suffering from an attack of pleurisy. Judge Ames was born July 17, 1819 in Haverhill, Mass., entered Dartmouth College in 1835, at the age of sixteen, and graduated with his class in 1839. He was studious and ambitious, and of unexceptional good habits, he led his class through his college course. His college room-mate was Charles Chauncey Chase, Esq., long Principal of the High School in Lowell. He was early admitted to the bar, but was not long permitted to practice law in Boston, for his legal attainments, sound judgement, and his unusually quick perceptive faculties gained him the appointment of Judge of Probate and Insolvency for the County of Suffolk, by Governor Gardner, during the Know-Nothing movement. The financial crisis of 1857 occurred two years after his appointment and resulted in a great number of heavy failures, and proceedings in insolvency in his court, which devolved on him a very large amount of business requiring prompt decisions in many important and intricate questions, almost daily. He proved equal to the task. It was surprising to witness the readiness and despatch to which he solved those questions arising respecting mercantile paper, and the duties and obligations of makers, endorsers and holders thereof. His decisions were usually made in a clear ringing voice on the spot. Very few appealed from his judgement. Physically he was a small man, weighing about 100 pounds, but the citizens generally of his county will accord to him intellectual greatness, a well-balanced mind, strict integrity, watchful care of the widow and fatherless, kind, social, and sincere in his friendships, and a just judge in every respect.
Graduated Dartmouth College class of 1839.
Married Mary (Morse) Phipps June 17, 1851, Haverhill, Mass.
Record of the Times (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) 10 Mar 1877, Page 1.
DEATH of a JUDGE
Judge Isaac Ames, died of pneumonia in Boston yesterday. He was born at Haverhill, Mass., July 17, 1817. He graduated at Dartmouth and was appointed Judge of Probate for Suffolk county, May 13, 1858. Two years previous to this he was appointed he been appointed Commissioner and Judge of Insolvency.
Boston Globe (Boston, Massachusetts) 10 Mar 1877, Page 3
Judge Isaac Ames
Isaac Ames, Judge of the Probate Court for the county of Suffolk, died March 9, 1877, leaving a wife but, no children. He left his court-room for the last time about a week before his death, suffering from an attack of pleurisy. Judge Ames was born July 17, 1819 in Haverhill, Mass., entered Dartmouth College in 1835, at the age of sixteen, and graduated with his class in 1839. He was studious and ambitious, and of unexceptional good habits, he led his class through his college course. His college room-mate was Charles Chauncey Chase, Esq., long Principal of the High School in Lowell. He was early admitted to the bar, but was not long permitted to practice law in Boston, for his legal attainments, sound judgement, and his unusually quick perceptive faculties gained him the appointment of Judge of Probate and Insolvency for the County of Suffolk, by Governor Gardner, during the Know-Nothing movement. The financial crisis of 1857 occurred two years after his appointment and resulted in a great number of heavy failures, and proceedings in insolvency in his court, which devolved on him a very large amount of business requiring prompt decisions in many important and intricate questions, almost daily. He proved equal to the task. It was surprising to witness the readiness and despatch to which he solved those questions arising respecting mercantile paper, and the duties and obligations of makers, endorsers and holders thereof. His decisions were usually made in a clear ringing voice on the spot. Very few appealed from his judgement. Physically he was a small man, weighing about 100 pounds, but the citizens generally of his county will accord to him intellectual greatness, a well-balanced mind, strict integrity, watchful care of the widow and fatherless, kind, social, and sincere in his friendships, and a just judge in every respect.
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