ELLIS, WM. B.

ELLIS, CARLIN

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Date: 4/19/2019 at 14:50:52

MONTROSE TOWNSHIP.

ELLIS, WM. B., miller, Montrose ; was born in North Carolina about 1819; his parents removed to Tennessee about 1820, and to Illinois in 1825. He married, in 1847, Martha M. Carlin, born in 1826; she was a niece of ex-Gov. Carlin, of Illinois ; Mr. Ellis has four children—Thomas J., Wm. F., Edgar H. and Enola; lost one child— Everett, who died in infancy, in 1862. Mr. Ellis owns the flouring-mill in Montrose; has been engaged in the milling business about twenty years.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879