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Elkins, William Lukens

financier, was born May 2, 1832. He went to Philadelphia and became one of the first to engage in the refining of crude oil.

Several small refineries were purchased, the Belmont Oil works were leased and control of the entire local industry of oil refining had soon been obtained by Mr.

Elkins.

ELLEDGE, WILLIAM MADISON, MADISON, clergyman, was born March 17, 1862, in Perry, Ill. In 1891 he graduated from the Fremont Normal school, Nebraska; and in 1896 from the Chicago Theological seminary. For many years he taught school; has been editor of a newspaper, and was at one time a candidate for the Nebraska state legislature. He now fills a pastorate in the Congregational church at Overbrook, Kan.