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Ames
was established in 1864
to serve the Cedar Rapids
and Missouri River Railroad.
Cynthia Duff, an early
Ames settler, was instrumental
in helping to secure
land for the railroad.
The railroad president,
John Blair, named the
town after his friend
Oakes Ames, a railroad
promoter and congressman
from Massachusetts,
who never lived in Ames.
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