a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Maine, Aug. 6, 1815. He experienced religion at the age of fifteen, graduated at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary, and in 1840 entered the Maine Conference. In 1852 he located, moved to Illinois, and in 1856 united with the Rock River Conference. In 1870 he supernumerated and retired to Kane County, Ill., where he died July 25,1874. Mr. Ambrose was a man of much devotedness. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1874, p. 137.