Biographical Sketches
GEORGE N. ELLIOTT
Assistant prosecuting attorney of Jackson county, is a native of Howard county, Missouri, born January 26, 1851. He is a son of Sampson W. and Amanda H. (Ridgway) Elliott, natives of Missouri. His paternal grandfather, Reuben Elliott, was a Kentuckian and a soldier in the War of 1812, having participated in the battles of New Orleans as a musician. In 1819 he settled in Missouri, when it was yet a territory. He was a farmer by occupation. His death occurred in Boone county, Missouri. His maternal grandfather, Thomas Ridgway, was also a Kentuckian and became a pioneer in Howard county, Missouri, where he lived and died.
The father of our subject was also a farmer. In the spring of 1851 he removed to Linn county, Missouri, settling near where Brookfield is now located. Here he entered a tract of land, upon which he lived until his death in 1880. He was a gentleman of prominence, having held numerous positions of public trust. In his early life he was a great hunter, a man of dauntless courage and untiring energy. Mrs. Elliott departed her life in 1876. To this estimable couple were born 6 children, 5 of whom are living: George N.; Mrs. Sallie Murrain, of Brookfield, Missouri; Millard F., of Los Angeles, California; Mrs. Theodosia E. Moore, of Brookfield; and Everett, a well known lawyer of Kansas City.
The early educational discipline of our subject was obtained in the country school and a private school in Brookfield, where he was fitted for college. Subsequently, he entered the State University of Missouri, at which he graduated in 1873. After teaching a few terms of school he founded the Brookfield Chronicle, a newspaper he edited with some success for several years, but journalism not being entirely to his taste he sold out. In the meantime he had read law and was admitted to practice by Hon. G. D. Burgess, now judge of the supreme court, having had a predilection for it as a profession. In 1877 he was admitted to the bar and opened an office in Brookfield, where for several years he did a large law and loan business. He was school commissioner of Linn county for 3 consecutive terms, city and township assessor several terms, and was prominently identified with numerous enterprises. While residing in Linn county he received the nomination for representative on the Democratic ticket, which was defeated.
In June, 1887, he came to Kansas City and engaged in practice. The following September he entered into a co-partnership for the practice of law with Colonel Michael Boland, which was continued till 1890, when General Hamilton was taken into the firm, the style of which then became Boland, Hamilton & Elliott. Mr. Elliott is also in a law partnership with C. E. Burnham, under the firm name of Elliott & Burnham. He was appointed to his present position in February, 1895. As a lawyer, Mr. Elliott takes high rank in the profession, being considered one of the ablest at the Jackson county bar. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and Knights of Pythias.
March 24, 1880, was consummated his marriage to Miss Josephine E. Pollard, of Macon City, Missouri, who has borne him 4 children: Madge L., Charlotte E., Willard F., and Emma J. Mr. Elliott is a deacon of the Olive Street Baptist Church, and superintendent of the Sunday school.
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