Articles by Steven Gilchrist

Boston, MA. – Oliver Ames (1831 – 1895) was the son of Oakes Ames and Eveline Orville.   Oliver’s father was the owner of the largest shovel manufacturer in the United States. Oliver Ames was educated at Brown University and he eventually went on to become a politician, financier, and philanthropist.   From 1881 – 1882, Ames was a Massachusetts State Senator.   Later, Ames served as the 33 rd Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1883 – 1887) and he served as the 35 th Governor of Massachusetts from 1887 – 1890).   Ames was a member of the Republican party. There is a statue of Oliver Ames located in the Massachusetts State House in Boston. Oliver Ames statue at the Massachusetts State House.

Boston, MA.- Wendell Phillips (1811 – 1884) was born in Boston, Massachusetts.   Phillips attended the Boston Latin School and graduated from Harvard University (1831) and Harvard Law School (1833).   Phillips was an abolitionist, lawyer, and an advocate for women’s rights and Native American rights.   Phillips helped organize the Massachusetts Indian Commission with Helen Hunt Jackson and Massachusetts governor William Claflin.   Phillips was also a member of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. In 1845, Phillips wrote an essay titled “No Union With Slaveholders.”   Phillips wrote the following paragraph in one part of the essay: “The experience of the fifty years…shows us the slaves trebling in numbers – slaveholders monopolizing the offices and dictating the policy of the Government – prostituting the strength and influence of the Nation to the support of slavery here and elsewhere – trampling on the rights of the free States, and making...