Hon. John I. Ellis Bollinger Co
Mo Biography
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Hon. John I. Ellis, an intelligent and enterprising young
citizen of
Bollinger County, Mo., is a son of James K.P. and Margaret
(Sample)
Ellis.
James K.P. Ellis was born in Hawkins County,
Tenn., and received
a liberal education in the subscription schools.
His
wife is a native
of Greene County, Tenn.
After his marriage, Mr. Ellis
located in his
native county, but in 1865 purchased a farm in Bollinger County,
Mo., to
which he removed his family.
They are the parents of
seven children,
viz.: William, John I., James F., George F., Mary E., S.E. and
Ida M.
John I was born in Hawkins County, Tenn., and being but four
years of
age when his parents moved to Missouri, has been reared in
Bollinger
County.
His education, which was begun in the public
schools, was
finished at the Carleton Institute, Farmington, Mo.
In
1886, after
finishing his literary education, he began the study of law,
which he
has since abandoned and chosen the profession of medicine; and
accordingly has attended two courses of lectures at the St. Louis
College of Physicians and Surgeons.
In politics he is
thoroughly
Democratic, and cast his first vote for Hancock.
In
1886 he was elected
Representative to the Legislature from Bollinger. [p.
827]
Goodspeed's History of
Southeast Missouri, [p. 827]
Contributed by
Joe Crim
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