Edward R Ames., I). D., an American clergyman, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church, born at Amesville, Ohio, May 20, 1806. In 1826 he entered the Ohio university at Athens, and in 1828 opened a high school at Lebanon, Ill., which was the germ of McKcndree college. After remaining here until 1830, he entered the itinerant ministry as a member of the Indiana conference. Being one of the delegates to the general conference of 1840, he was elected corresponding secretary of the missionary society for the south and west. From 1844 to 1852 he was a presiding elder in the Indiana conference, and was then elected bishop. He was the first Methodist bishop to visit the Pacific coast. During the civil war he served on several important commissions. Since 1861 he has resided in Baltimore.