Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1915
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 901
EDDIE S. ELLIS

The biographies of successful men are instructive as guides and an incentive to those whose careers are yet to be achieved. The examples they furnish, of patient purpose and consecutive endeavor, strongly illustrate what is in the power of each to accomplish. The gentleman whose life story is here briefly set forth, is a conspicuous example of one who has lived to good purpose and achieved a definite degree of success in the special sphere to which his talents and energies have been devoted. Eddie S. ELLIS, a farmer and stockman of Washington township, Harrison county, Iowa, was born February 20, 1876, in Mills county, Iowa. He is the son of Marion and Nancy (DEEM) ELLIS, to whom eleven children were born. Marion ELLIS was born in December 1851 in Davis county, Missouri. He came to Harrison county, Iowa, in 1870 and rented land for a few years. He owns 320 acres of land in Union township, Harrison county, and is now living upon his land. Mrs. Marion ELLIS, the mother of Eddie S., was born in 1851 in Ohio and moved to Missouri with her parents when a girl of six years.

Eddie S. ELLIS was reared on the farm and attended only the country schools of Union township, Harrison county. He worked at home for his father until he had reached his majority and then worked for different persons, as a farm laborer, for about two years. After this, he rented land and began farming for himself. He rented land and farmed it for two years, at the end of which time he bought 80 acres in Union township. Mr. ELLIS made many improvements upon this land and farmed it until 1912, when he sold out and bought the farm which he now owns, consisting of 240 acres of fertile, well improved soil. When Mr. ELLIS bought his present farm, there wre many buildings upon it, but they were very much run down and very much in need of paint. These buildings have been remodeled and improved, cement sidewalks have been laid and many modern conveniences added to the farm. Eddie S. ELLIS has succeeded in his vocation, far beyond the achievement of most men. He is a rather heavy shareholder in the Hafer Lumber Company at Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Mr. ELLIS was married in 1900 to Bessie STOCKER, who was born in 1881, in Washington Township and who is the daughter of Orsan and Elizabeth (OMEN) STOCKER. To this union, six children have been born: Letha, Lloyd, Floyd, Bessie, Ray and Eldred.

Mr. ELLIS is a Republican, but he has never been especially active in political affairs and has never held office, with one exception, at which time he was a school director. The ELLIS family attend the Methodist Church. Mr. ELLIS is not a member of any secret order. The family are highly respected in the community where they reside, and Mr. ELLIS deserved to rank as one of the representative farmers of his township.

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