Pelham Warren Ames

Pelham Warren Ames

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Born in Lowell, Massachusetts

A Mason.

Son of Margaret Stevenson Bradford and Seth Ames

Grandson of Fisher Ames and a descendant of Gamaliel Bradford, Colonel of the 14th Mass regiment in the Revolutionary war.

Graduate of Harvard. Served on the USS Connecticut and USS Saginaw.

Married Augusta Hooper, Daughter of William Hooper, October 18, 1865. They removed to Boston until 1872, then returned to San Francisco.

He was seecretary of Sutro Tunnel Co. till 1888, when he became assistant secretary of Spring Valley Water Co., then was its secretary till he resigned, in 1906, went East and visited Europe twice and returned to San Francisco.

He served on the Board of Education in San Francisco. He was a lawyer but never practiced. He was a member of the military order of Loyal Legion, Naval Order U. S. A., Order of Naval Veterans, Grand Army of the Republic, Society of Mayflower Descendants, Colonial Governors, Bohemian, University and Harvard Clubs, and was
president of the California Society Sons of American Revolution and vice-President General of the National Society S. A. R. in 1907.

He had seven children of whom two sons, Worthington and Alden of San Francisco, and two daughters, Mrs. Thos. H. Robbins, Jr., and Mrs. Robert W. Wood, survive. He died in San Francisco, May 9, 1915. His wife died about a year before his death.