Charles Gordon Ames

Charles Gordon Ames (3 October 1828 – 15 April 1912) was an American Unitarian clergyman, editor and lecturer.

[1] Ames spent his early years on a farm and in a printing-office in New Hampshire.

[2] He graduated from the Geauga Seminary of Ohio, and was ordained in 1849 as a Free Will Baptist, and became the founding minister for a church of that sect in Minneapolis in 1851.

He found his congregation wanting in the faith and attitude he expected, and after five years he left the Minneapolis church, and, for a time, the ministry.

[1] He settled in Boston in 1859,[1] became a Unitarian, and later succeeded James Freeman Clarke as pastor of the Church of the Disciples there.