Duval County FlArchives Biographies.....Ellis, Jr., Robert Naudain October 10, 1874 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.34  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present 

        ELLIS, Jr., ROBERT NAUDAIN, has earned distinction in the same 
profession as his father, whose career has been given in the preceding sketch.
	The son was born at Jacksonville, Florida, October 10, 1874, oldest of 
his parents’ children. He was educated in the public schools at Jacksonville, 
attended the Bethel Military Academy at Warrington, Virginia, taking the civil 
engineering course, and after completing his education was for several years 
connected with the National Peace River Phosphate Company at Janejay, Florida, 
as dredging superintendent. He left this work early in 1898 to join the army at 
the time of the Spanish-American war. He became a member of Company A of the 
first Florida Regiment, Light Infantry, and was mustered into the Federal Army 
on April 23, 1898, at Tampa, as member of Company E. Later he was stationed at 
Fernandina, Florida, at Huntsville, Alabama, and at Tallahassee, Florida, and 
was mustered out as a quartermaster sergeant, December 3, 1898.
	After performing this military duty Mr. Ellis returned to Jacksonville 
and was associated with the Florida Railway Company on its survey through a 
country between Live Oak and Perry. Later he was chief engineer for the 
construction of this branch of the road. In 1908 he again located at 
Jacksonville, and with T. HERD KOOKER and ERNEST W. CURTIS established the firm 
of Ellis, Curtis and Kooker, civil engineers and surveyors, a firm with 
established business connections and a high reputation in their field 
throughout Florida.
	Mr. Ellis is a member of the Florida Engineering Society, is a democrat 
and attends the Episcopal Church. December 25, 1902, at Morganfield, Kentucky, 
he married CAROLINE PENTICE. They have one son, ROBERT NAUDAIN, third.
        

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