File:Henry Semple Ames, Edgar Ames, and others on yacht Virginia, ca 1890s (PORTRAITS 1177).jpg

Written on verso: Naptha launch-Virginia-owned by Semple and Edgar Ames-of St. Louis. It was used on cruises on the Mississippi River and usually moored at the Illinois Yacht Club at Alton, Ill. Their summer house was Notchcliff, Elsa Ill. From left to right-Henry Semple Ames-Mrs. George H. Paschall (Seattle owner)-Mrs. [illegible] - Edgar Ames- Mrs. Frank Hershburg. Mrs. Frank Hershburg [sic]-George H. Paschall. All of St. Louis about in the early 1890s. I forget the length: but there were sleeping accomodations for six people. I made many a happy trip on her as a young girl when I was visiting Notchcliff. Ethel Semple Swanstrom. PH Coll 1120.88

Henry Semple Ames (1863-1916) was the eldest son of Edgar Ames Sr. (1824-1867) and Lucy Virginia Semple Ames (1836-1929). As well as acting as secretary of the Ames Realty Company, he was also president of the St. Louis and Meramec River Railroad Company, the Ames Steel Lath Company, and Northwestern Expanded Metal Company, and vice president of Bee Line Construction Company and the Mississippi Valley Trust Company. His brother Edgar Ames (1868-1944) was born in St. Louis. He entered the banking and financial business in 1894, when he became involved with the Seattle & Lake Washington Waterway Company, contracted to fill the tidelands on the Seattle waterfront. Ames moved to Seattle from Chicago in 1895. He founded the Ames Shipbuilding & Drydock Company in Seattle in 1916, with a modern plant on West Waterway and 26th Avenue SW on Harbor Island. Ames opened his new Ames Terminal Company, a cargo-handling facility, in Seattle in 1922, at the site of the shipyard. The terminal was a center of salmon shipping activity, handling the entire pack of the large Libby, McNeil and Libby Company fisheries. He was also president of the Seattle General Contract Company. Married to Anne, had daughter Margaret Baillargeon (1899) Notchcliff was the summer mansion built around 1872 in Elsah Illinois by Lucy V. Semple Ames, daughter of Elsah's founder, General James Semple.

• Subjects (LCSH): Ames, Henry Semple, 1863-1916; Ames, Edgar, 1868-1944; Paschall, George H.; Paschall, George H., Mrs.; Hershburg, Frank; Hershburg, Frank, Mrs.; Men--United States; Women--United States; Yachts--United States