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Ellis, George Washington, lawyer, diplomat, was born May 4, 1873, in Weston, Mo. He was educated at the Atchison high school

at the college

and law

department of the Kansas university; at Gunton's institute of economics and sociology of New York. He is a lawyer by profession; and for several years was a clerk in the United States interior department at

Washington, D.C. And since 1902 has been a representative

in

the

United States diplomatic service; and is now secretary of the American legation, with headquarters at Monrovia, Liberia. He has

Adnah, Tale of the Time of Christ; The Ellisan Literary Year-Book; The Stork's Nest; The Keeneyes Series; and other works.

John Millot, clergyman, educator, was born July 14, 1793, in Keene, N.H. He was pastor at Kaskaskia and Jacksonville, 111., where he established a female Ellis,

founder,

He died Aug. 6, 1855. John Washington, banker, financier, was born Aug. 15, 1817, in Williamsburg, Ohio. When the national bank act was passseminary. Ellis,

ed in 1863, he organized the First national Cincinnati. The most important operation of his life was the resuscitation of the Northern pacific railroad company In 1879-80. He formed a syndicate, which took

bank of

forty million dollars of Northern pacific bonds and finished the road to the coast. Ellis,

John William, educator, lawyer,

lec-

deposited a large collection of ethnological specimens in the national museum at Wash-

turer, college president, poet, was born Dec. 29, 1839, in Carthage, 111. He has been president of the Warsaw college of Kentucky;

ington, D.C.

president of the

Henry, colonial governor, explorer, was born in 1721 in England. He was made lieutenant-governor of Georgia in 1756; and in 1758 was made royal governor. His services to the colony were great in securing the good-will of the Creeks and in a wise and

souri;

Ellis,

able administration. He died Jan. 21, 18.06. Ellis, Horace, educator, college president, was born July 9, 1861, in Decatur, 111. In 1898-1902 he was superintendent of public schools of Franklin, Ind.; in 1902 he was president of the Idaho state normal school; and since 1904 has been president of the Vincennes university. Ellis, John, physician, inventor, was born Nov. 26, 1815, in Ashfield, Mass. He lectured for six years in the Homoeopathic medical college of Cleveland, Ohio. He invented a process for refining petroleum; and in 1881 purchased a tract of land at Edgewater, N. J., and there constructed one of the most complete oil refineries in the world. He died Dec. 3, 1896, in New York City. Ellis, John Breckenridge, educator, author, was born Feb. 11, 1870, in Hannibal, Mo. In

and

in Raleigh, N.C. Ellis,

Louis

In

17, 1843, in

New York

City, and just entering Rutgers college when the

was

war broke

he

was professor

of English literature of the Plattsburg college; and in 1900-02 held

the

same professorship

at the Central christian college of Albany,

Mo. In 1902 he gave up teaching to devote himself to literature. He is the author of In the Days of Jehu; King Saul; The Dread and Fear of Kings:

The Red Box Clew; The Holland Wolves;

out.

During

the civil war he went to the front in a militia regiment; and he later enlisted for three years in the one hun-

also

1886-97

F., soldier, patriot,

was born Sing Sing, N.Y. His grandfather came from England; and was a prominent wholesale merchant in New York City. He graduated from the public schools of July

received a good musical education.

college of Mis-

Song of Solomon. He has conducted Chautauqua assemblies; and in 1889 received the degree of LL.D. from that institution. 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 in 1844-48; and then judge of the superior courts of law and equity; and was the twenty-seventh governor of North Carolina in 1859-61. He died in 1861

1886 he graduated from Plattsburg college with the degree of A.

M. He

Woodland

now

president of Plattsburg He is author of The Life Mission, a poem of great merit; and translator into English of a metrical translation of The is

college.

dred and thirty-first volunteer infantry, and was rappromoted and commanded his company m all the engagements of his regiment in the department of the Gulf. He volunteered as

New York idly

a member of the Port Hudson forlorn hope stormmg column; and was voted a medal by congress

for

gallant and meritorious conserved as department commander two terms; and also as national commander of the union veterans. He has been chairman of the republican county commitofi'^uOhio