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Ellis, John William

educator, lawyer, lecturer, author, college president, was born Dec. 29, 1839, in Carthage, Ill.

When an infant he removed to Kentucky; and in 1869 to Missouri, where he has attained distinction as an able lawyer, being a member for ten years of the bar at St. Louis, and subsequently of Plattsburg. He has been president of the Warsaw college, Kentucky; president of the Woodland college, Missouri, and is now president of Plattsburg college, Missouri. He is author of The Life Mission, a poem of great merit; and translator into English of a metrical translation of The Song of Solomon. He has conducted Chautauqua assemblies, and in 1889 received the degree of LL. D. from that institution.