Adelbert Ames was born on October 30, 1835, in Rockland, Maine, and died on April 13, 1933, in Ormond, Florida. He served as a Major General, U.S. Senator, and Governor. On June 20, 1870, he married Blanche Butler, daughter of Benjamin Franklin Butler and Sarah Hildreth. Blanche Butler was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on March 1, 1847, and died in Ormond, Florida, on December 26, 1939.