Ellis, Earl (Lt. Col.) ( -1923)

ELLIS, AXLINE

Posted By: Jane Adams (email)
Date: 8/25/2005 at 18:09:17

Fairfield Ledger
Tues., June 5, 1923
Page 3, col. 1.

Lt. Col. Earl Ellis, killed in the Caroline Islands May 12 under mysterious conditions, was a son of Mrs. A. W. Ellis of Pratt, Kansas, who formerly was Miss Kate Axline of Fairfield, daughter of Rev. Andrew Axline, head of the old Fairfield college. He was a world figure; profound thinker and scholar.....Pratt Daily Tribune received here by Wm. L. Long.....

“The Search for Amelia Earhart” by Fred Goerner, 1966, p. 244:

“Young U. S. Marines who attend classes in Ellis Hall at the Marine Corps Station, Quantico, Virginia, may find special meaning in the last line of the inscription on a memorial plaque honoring the colonel who tried to protect his county from a threat few could recognize: HIS HEART WAS DAUNTLESS AND FULL OF COURAGE.”

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