Frederick Lothrop Ames (June 8, 1835 – September 13, 1893) was heir to a fortune in railroads and shovel manufacturing.

[4] Young Frederick attended Phillips Exeter Academy and graduated from Harvard College in 1854.

[3][5] Although he wished to study law, he was persuaded by his father to join the family shovel business.

[5] On the death of his father in 1877, Frederick became head of the Ames & Sons Corporation;[4] he also inherited five or six million dollars, which he invested in railroads.

[3] The children were: Helen Angier; Oliver; Mary Shreve; Frederick Lothrop Jr.; and John Stanley Ames.

[7] Ames' collection also included "Pointer Dog" by Constant Troyon, "Tiger Hunt" by Eugène Fromentin, several landscapes by Charles-François Daubigny, and several other paintings by French Romanticists.

[9] On October 6, 1885, the Ames estate in North Easton was robbed of several paintings, including "Teybeck at Brousic" by Stanisław Chlebowski, and "Goose Girl" by Jean-François Millet.

[11] In 1882, Ames commissioned artist John La Farge to design a large stained glass window in Unity Church of North Easton as a memorial to his only sister, Helen Angier Ames.

[10] Ames was a generous donor to Harvard's Arnold Arboretum and a vice president of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.

[4] Ames died suddenly aboard his steamboat Pilgrim sometime early in the morning of September 13, 1893 en route to Fall River, Massachusetts.