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For many years Louis Ameel was actively identified with the business interests of Mount Clemens, but is now living retired, enjoying a well-earned rest. He is a native of Belgium, born in 1825. It was on the 13th of July. 1854, that he came to Michigan end took up his residence in Detroit, where he worked at the tailor's trade for three months.

At the end of that time Mr. Ameel came to Mount Clemens and for two years was in the employ of Mr. William, a tailor, of this place. During the following three years he worked at his trade for eight dollars per month. Believing that he could do better at some other occupation he then erected a building on Cass avenue and embarked in the saloon and grocery business, but disposed of his store in 1863 and for two months he again worked at his trade. He next opened a barber shop, which was the first establishment of the kind in Mount Clemens, and continued to carry on business along that line for thirty years, or until his retirement from active labor in 1895, since which time his son Frank has conducted the shop. Success has attended his well-directed efforts in life and he acquired a comfortable competence, which enables him to live in ease and quiet at his pleasant home at No. 65 New street

On the 22d of November, 1859, Mr. Ameel was married in Mount Clemens to Miss Anna Winkles, and they have become the parents of twelve children, of whom eight are still living.

Source : Eldredge, Robert F., : Past and present of Macomb County, Michigan; Chicago: S.J. Clarke Pub., Co., 1905, 711 pgs.
 

Mt Clemens Monitor, Fri Jun 5 1908.
Louis AMEEL, one of the oldest residents of Mt. Clemens, died Monday night, aged 84 years. The funeral was yesterday from St. Peter's church, of which he was a devoted member. Mr. Ameel was born in France, going to Belgium early in life, and then coming to Detroit in 1850. Cholera was raging there, and so he, with the late Bruno VanLANDEGHEM and the late Felix DENEWITH, came to Mt. Clemens, where they lived ever afterwards. Forty-nine years ago he married Miss Anna WINKLER-*, who survives him with six children, Joseph of Washington state, Charles and August of Detroit, and Albert,Frank, and Henry of Mt. Clemens. Mr. Ameel was a tailor by occupation, working for years in the shop of the late C.D. Williams. Then he became a barber and had a shop of his own until he retired from active life, a few years ago. He was an industrious, thrifty citizen, esteemed by all who knew him, and never had an enemy in all his life 

from Macomb county obituaries