The New International Encyclopædia/Ames, Nathax P.

AMES, Nathan P. (1803-47). An American manufacturer of firearms, ordnance, and cutlery. In early life he owned extensive cutlery works at Chicopee Falls, Mass., but afterward removed to Cabotsville. The works were supplemented in 1836 by a bronze foundry, where most of the brass guns for the United States Army were cast. There also the statues of DeWitt Clinton, in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn ; of Washington, in Union Square, New York; and of Franklin, in School Street, Boston, were cast.