Ellis, Frank W.

ELLIS, BUCKLEY, WARE

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Source: "The 1901 Biographical Record of Clinton Co., Iowa, Illustrated" published: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1901.

FRANK W. ELLIS.

Frank W. Ellis is one of the younger representatives of the legal fraternity of Clinton, but has already won a position of distinction in connection with the litigated interests of the district as a member of the firm of Ellis & Ellis. He was born in the city which is still his home May 4, 1865, a son of Lyman A. and Mary (Buckley) Ellis, who are represented on another page of this volume.

Our subject pursued his education in the schools of Clinton and was graduated in the high school in 1883. He afterward entered the State University of Minnesota, at Minneapolis, and later read law with the firm of Ellis & McCoy. In May, 1888, he was admitted to the bar, and practiced until 1890. He then removed to Denver, where he continued in practice for four years, and on the expiration of that period returned to Clinton, where he has been until recently a member of the firm of Ellis & Ellis. He is now a member of the prosperous law firm of Baker, Ellis & McCoy. He is a young man of good mental endowments, laudable ambition and strong determination,--qualities which have already won him recognition and will gain for him still greater success in the future.

In May, 1899, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Ellis and Miss Celeste Ware, of Clinton, and they now have one child, Jane, born in June, 1900. In his social relations Mr. Ellis is connected with the Masonic fraternity and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, while in politics he is a Republican and has served for two years as city attorney of Clinton. He prepares his cases with great thoroughness and precision, and as he is well versed in the principles of jurisprudence, he has been successful in mastering many intricate problems that have arisen in the conduct of important litigation.