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CHARLES B. AMES
Vol. 3, Pages 1089

A member of the law firm of AMES, CHAMBERS, LOWE & RICHARDSON, of
Oklahoma City, with office at 512-529 American National Bank
Building, Hon. Charles Bismark AMES was born in the City of Macon,
Mississippi, on the 1st of August, 1870, and is a son of Charles
Bingle AMES and Sarah Jane (LONGSTREET) Ames. His Father, who was a
native of Ohio, became a resident of the State of Mississippi in
1831, and there continued to maintain his residence until his death,
in 1888; he was a lawyer by profession, was an extensive planter
prior to the Civil war, during which conflict between the North and
the South he served in the Confederate Army, and for a number of
years he held the office of probate judge in Mississippi.

In 1890 Charles Bismark AMES was graduated in Emory & Henry College,
at Emory, Virginia, with the degree of Bachelor of Science, and he
then entered the law department of the University of Mississippi, in
which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1892 and with the
degree of Bachelor of Laws. He at once engaged in the practice of his
profession in his native city, Macon, and there he remained until
1899, when he came to Oklahoma Territory and established his
residence in Oklahoma City, where he formed a professional
partnership with H. H. HOWARD, the firm of HOWARD & AMES here
continuing its practice until 1903, when Mr. Howard retired and was
succeeded by Dennis T. FLYNN, the substantial law business of the
firm of FLYNN & AMES having been controlled under this title until
the 1st of September, 1911, when Mr. AMES was appointed by the
Supreme Court of Oklahoma, for the state at large, presiding justice
of the Supreme Court Commission, Division No. 1.

In 1900 Mr. AMES wrote the platform of the territorial democratic
convention, committing the party to joint statehood on the part of
Oklahoma and Indian territories, and subsequently he wrote the
platform of the Claremore and Oklahoma joint statehood convention,
composed of delegates from the two territories, besides which he
otherwise took an active part in the movement that resulted in the
creation of the one State of Oklahoma from the two territories.

In 1904 Mr. AMES was a delegate from the Oklahoma State Bar
Association to the Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists in the
city of St. Louis, Missouri. He is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, and in 1911 was a delegate to the Ecumenical
Methodist Conference in the City of Toronto, Canada.

On the 1st of March, 1913, Mr. Ames resigned from the Supreme Court
Commission and resumed the practice of his profession, the present
law firm of AMES, CHAMBERS, LOWE & RICHARDSON having been formed at
that time, with offices in the American National Bank Building.

On the 6th of February, 1894, was solemnized the marriage of Mr.
Ames to Miss Elizabeth P. ALLEN, daughter of Benjamin ALLEN, of
Macon, Mississippi, and they have five children-Ben A., Elizabeth,
Charles B. Jr., Fisher, and Longstreet. The family residence in
Oklahoma City is at 401 West Fourteenth Street.

Typed for OKGenWeb by: Donald E. Conley, 9 November 1998.