County of Christian, Kentucky.  Historical and Biographical.  Edited by 
William Henry Perrin.  F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1884, pp. 361-362.

WILLIAM ELLIS was born in Hartford County, Maryland, July 1810.  When a 
mere boy his parents, John and Jemima Ellis, removed to the city of 
Baltimore, where he grew to manhood.  His father was a native of 
Maryland, but of Irish parentage, and his mother, also a native of 
Maryland, descended from Scotch ancestry.  To them were born six 
children, subject being the fifth.  He in early life decided to learn a 
trade, and chose that of a tailor, at which he worked in various cities 
prior to coming to Hopkinsville, which he did in December of 1840.  From 
that time until 1861 he was chiefly employed in the merchant tailoring 
business, in which he was successful.  The time intervening from 1861 to 
1874 was passed principally in mercantile pursuits, and in 1874 he 
purchased the half interest in the Hopkinsville Mills owned by John T. 
Edmunds; he is now a member of the firm of F. L. Ellis & Co.  He was 
married, in Hopkinsville in 1844, to Miss Ann F. Harrison, a native of 
Kentucky.  They have a family of four children, viz.:  Mary E., wife of 
M. D. Bowles; F. L. Ellis, Lee Ellis and Dr. Clifton Ellis, of Emporia 
Kas.  F. L. Ellis, of the firm of Ellis & Co., is a young man of 
excellent business qualities, the second of four children of William 
Ellis, and was born in Hopkinsville, January 29, 1851; he was chiefly 
educated in the South Kentucky College, and in 1872 engaged in the 
hardware business (buying the stock of Thompson & Coleman), which he 
prosecuted with flattering success until 1876, when he sold to Mr. 
Thompson, a former owner, and purchased an interest in the Hopkinsville 
Mills.  He was married, in 1878, to Miss Lucy Jagoe, daughter of 
Benjamin Jagoe, who while living was a very prominent farmer in Hopkins 
County, Ky., where Mrs. E. was born on the 8th day of October, 1860.  
They have two interesting children - Edna and Lewis Ellis.

Ellis Edmunds Harrison Bowles Thompson Coleman Jagoe
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Hartford-MD KS Hopkins-KY

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