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Ellis, John – Elmendorf, John James
Ellis, John
physician, inventor, author, was born Nov. 26, 1815, in Ashfield, Mass. He lectured for six years in the Homeopathic Medical college of Cleveland, Ohio, and was professor of the theory and practice of medicine for two years in the New York Homeopathic Medical college. He invented a process for refining petroleum; and in 1881 purchased a tract of land at Edgewater, N. J., and constructed one of the most complete oil refineries in the world.
Ellis, John Breckenridge
educator, author, poet, was born Feb. 11, 1870, in Marion county, Mo. He received his education at the Woodland college, and in 1886 graduated from the Plattsburg college. He has filled the chair in Plattsburg college, in which institution he is now professor of English literature. He is the author of several novels entitled Hand of Fire; The Flitterfleds; Mizzouri Ville Sketches; a volume of poems, and other works.
Ellis, John Millot
clergyman, educator, was born July 14, 1793, in Keene, N. H. He moved to Illinois and was pastor at Kaskaskia and Jacksonville, where he established a female seminary. He died Aug. 6, 1855.
Ellis, John Washington
banker, was born Aug. 15, 1817, in Williamsburg, Ohio. When the national bank act was passed in 1863, he organized the First National bank of Cincinnati. The most important operation of his life was the resuscitation of the Northern Pacific Railroad company in 1879-80, after the failure under Jay Cooke's management in 1873. Mr. Ellis formed a syndicate, which took $40,000,000 of Northern Pacific bonds and finished the road to the Pacific.
Ellis, John Willis
lawyer, jurist, governor, was born Nov. 23, 1820, in Rowan, N. C. He was a member of the house of commons of North Carolina from 1844 to 1848; and then judge of the superior courts of law and equity; and was governor of North Carolina from 1859 until his death. He died in 1861, in Raleigh, N. C.
Ellis, Perry Canby
journalist, author, was born Aug. 21, 1867, in Boone county, Ky. He received his education in the Woodland college, and in 1885 he graduated from the Plattsburg college.
He was on the editorial staff of the St.
Louis Star, Kansas City Times and the Kansas City World. He is the author of a Political Handbook, and several short stories.
Ellwanger, Henry Brooks
horticulturist, author, was born in 1851 in New York. He was a horticulturist of Rochester, N. Y., and the author of The Rose, a Treatise on Cultivation; and History of Roses. He died in 1883.
Ellwood, Reuben
manufacturer, congressman, was born Feb. 21, 1821, in New York. He located at Sycamore, Ill.; engaged largely in manufacturing; and became president of several manufacturing companies. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-eighth congress as a republican.
Ellyson, Henry Keeling
journalist, legislator, was born July 31, 1823, in Richmond, Va. In 1854-55 he served his native city in the Virginia legislature; from 1857 till 1865 was sheriff of Henrico county; and in 1870 was elected mayor of Richmond. He has long been connected, as associate proprietor and editor, with the Richmond Dispatch, one of the most widely circulated journals in the south.
Elmendorf, John James
clergyman, author, was born June 27, 1827, in New York city. He was an episcopal clergyman, and professor of philosophy in Racine college, Wisconsin, in 1867-88, and later connected with the Western Theological seminary at Chicago. He was the author of Manual of Rites and Ritual; History of Philosophy; Outlines of Logic; Aspects of Modern Philosophy; and Moral Philosophy. He died in 1896.