Glen Stuart Ames

Brief Life History of Glen Stuart

When Glen Stuart Ames was born on 6 March 1918, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, his father, Oliver Edward Ames, was 35 and his mother, Hannah Deborah Kennedy, was 20. He lived in Burnside, Burnside Township, Lapeer, Michigan, United States in 1920. He died on 3 December 1921, in South Jacksonville, Duval, Florida, United States, at the age of 3.

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Family Time Line

Oliver Edward Ames
1882–1925
Hannah Deborah Kennedy
1897–1977
Oliver Ames Jr
1911–
Glen Stuart Ames
1918–1921

Sources (2)

  • Glen Ames in household of Oliver Ames, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Glen Stuart Ames, "Florida Deaths, 1877-1939"

World Events (4)

1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment

The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.

1920

The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.

1920 · The Detroit Wall

The Detroit Wall is a half mile long wall that was constructed to serve as a wall of racial separation as a physical barrier between white and black homeowners in northwest Detroit. Today the wall is mostly gone with only a small portion of it located at a local park.

Name Meaning

English (of Norman origin): from the Old French personal name Amis or from the feminine form, Amice. The Old French word amis, is from Latin amicus ‘friend’, which was used in Late Latin as a term for a man of the lower classes, in particular a slave. There were also derivatives of this as personal names, in particular masculine Amicius and feminine Amicia. Both were in use as personal names in England and may have contributed to the surname.

German: perhaps a nickname for an active person, from an ancient Germanic word related to Old High German amazzig ‘busy’.

Dutch: possibly a patronymic from Ame a common personal name in Holland and Friesland, an abbreviated form of an ancient Germanic personal name, perhaps beginning with amel ‘strong’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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