<p>Written on verso: L.S.Ames
PH Coll 1120.79</p>
<p>Lucy Virginia Semple Ames (1836-1929) who was the daughter of James Semple, U.S Senator and Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court. Married to Edgar Ames (1824-1867) in 1860, she bore him four children before his death in 1867: Ada Semple Ames, Henry Semple Ames, Mary "Mamie" Semple Ames and Edgar Ames.

After his death she took over the family business concerns and added a real estate development company, the Ames Realty Company. She was president, and her son Henry was secretary. She became a member of the Equal Suffrage Society in 1869 and championed women's education.</p>
<ul><li>Subjects (LCSH): Ames, Lucy Virginia Semple, 1836-1929; Women--United States--Portraits</li></ul>
Reutlinger
circa between 1885 and 1899 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1885-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1899-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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