Forrest B. Ames

Born: May 16, 1891

Died: June 1969

Married: Mildred Mabel Wilder

Children: Janice Margery Ames Hawkins, Marilyn L Ames and Priscilla J Ames.

Forrest Bertram Ames was a young medical student from Maine when he undertook a survey of TB patients in Saranac Lake. A 1917 village survey map prepared by Ames, designated as Health Inspector, shows over 520 buildings housing actively tuberculous individuals — almost half of all the buildings within the village limits. In 1922, he was appointed as the first roentgenologist (radiologist) in at Eastern Maine General Hospital in Bangor Maine. He was a son of Charles Herbert Ames of Bangor Maine.