Blanche Ames Ames

Blanche Ames Ames (1878 – 1969) was an artist and prominent supporter of women's suffrage and birth control. Born Blanche Ames in Lowell, Massachusetts, daughter of Civil War General and Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, she married Harvard University botany professor Oakes Ames (no relation) in 1910 and took the married name Blanche Ames Ames. Their estate in North Easton, Massachusetts, called Borderland, is now Borderland State Park.

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