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 EXERCISES IN CONNECTION 
 
 WITH THE UNVEILING 
 
 OF 
 
 THE DAVID AMES TABLET 
 
 MAY 18, 1917 
 
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 A GIFT TO THE CONNECTICUT VALLEY 
 
 HISTORICAL SOCIETY FROM 
 
 THE GREAT GRAND-DAUGHTER OF 
 
 DAVID AMES 
 
 MRS. OSCAR B. IRELAND 
 
THE HOUSE BUILT BY 
 
 DAVID AMES, JR. 
 
 LOCATED ON AMES HILL, MAPLE STREET 
 
 AND NOW OCCUPIED BY 
 
 MISS MARY AMES 
 
 AND 
 
 MRS. OSCAR B. IRELAND 
 
3 TSioi? 
 
 Descendants of 
 
 DAVID AMES 
 
 Representing Four Generations 
 
 Miss Mary Ames 
 Mrs. O. B. Ireland 
 Gordon Ireland 
 Frederick Ireland 
 Elizabeth Ireland 
 
SPOT WHERE THE 
 BOULDER WITH TABLET 
 WILL BE LOCATED 
 CORNER MAPLE AND MILL STREETS 
 
UNVEILING OF THE DAVID AMES TABLET 
 
 FRIDAY MAY 18, 1017 at 2:30 o'clock P. M. 
 Mahogany Room Auditorium 
 
 Program 
 
 Introductory Remarks 
 
 By W. F. Adams, President of the Society. 
 
 President of the Day 
 Charles W. Bosworth. 
 
 Invocation 
 
 By Rev. A. P. Reccord, Minister of Church of Unity. 
 
 Address of Welcome and thanks to the Donor on behalf of the Citizens of 
 Springfield 
 
 Hon. Frank E. Stacy, Mayor. 
 
 Presentation of the Tablet to the Connecticut Valley Historical Society 
 
 By Gordon Ireland of New York City, of the Fourth generation in lineal descent from 
 David Ames. 
 
 Unveiling of the Tablet 
 
 By Frederick Ireland of the Fifth generation in lineal descent from David Ames. 
 
 Acceptance of the Tablet in behalf of the Connecticut Valley Historical 
 Society 
 
 By Charles Goodrich Whiting. 
 
 The first paper maker in the Connecticut Valley and the art of paper 
 making in the early days and some comparisons of later days 
 
 By George B. Holbrook. 
 
Ifuuorarg (Eummtttrc 
 
 A. C. Hastings, Holyoke 
 W. N. Caldwell 
 Clifton A. Crocker 
 Horace A. Moses 
 Edward P. Bagg, Holyoke 
 
 Gkmmtttrc an Jfumtatton 
 
 Frederick Harris Miss Mary Ames 
 
 Alfred Leeds Mrs. Samuel Bowles 
 
 Sherman Bowles Mrs. Solomon B. Griffin 
 
 (ftmsttsttttr* an Oration 
 
 Stanhope E. Blunt 
 Andrew J. Flanagan 
 Mrs. 0. B. Ireland 
 Charles E. Ladd 
 
 (Hamxmtttz an ilaljugaug Staom, AtuMturium 
 
 Henry C. Haile 
 
 J. Stewart Kirkham 
 
 Herbert R. Wolcott 
 
Umpfbnt dflmtmitrc 
 
 Robert 0. Morris 
 
 Rev. J. H. Lockwood 
 
 0. S. Greenleaf 
 
 Richard Hooker 
 
 Charles H. Barrows 
 
 Mrs. Alfred Leeds 
 
 Mrs. Edward S. Brewer, Longmeadow 
 
 Mrs. A. A. Packard 
 
 Mrs. D. P. Cole 
 
 Charles A. Frazer 
 
 E. A. Hall 
 
 T. F. Dwight 
 
 A. H. Watson 
 
 Dr. Appleton Morgan, New York 
 
 Nehemiah Hawkins, New York 
 
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