Jackson County IA Archives Biographies.....Ellis, Gideon  1880 - 
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Source: History of Jackson County, Iowa
Author: J. W. Ellis

GIDEON C. ELLIS, D. D. S.
The practice of dentistry is unique in that its demands are of a threefold 
nature. The practitioner must possess not only a scientific knowledge but also 
marked mechanical skill and ingenuity, combined with the ability to control 
carefully the financial side of the business. Dr. Gideon C. Ellis is 
manifesting his aptitude in all these lines as he practices the profession of 
dental surgery in connection with his father and brother under the firm style 
of Dr: G. Ellis & Sons. He was born in Maquoketa, November 5, 1880, was reared 
in his father's home and in the public schools passed through consecutive 
grades until he became a high school student. He made his initial step in the 
business world when seventeen years of age as a salesman in the clothing store 
of M. S. Dunn & Company. He was there employed for eight months, after which he 
resigned his position, for he had determined to engage in the practice of 
dentistry as a life work. He therefore began studying in his father's office 
and not only perused the standard text-books but also assisted his father in 
various ways until the fall of 1899, when he entered the dental department of 
the State University of Iowa at Iowa City. Completing the full course there, he 
was graduated in the class of 1903 and returning to
Maquoketa was associated with his father for one year. In the fall of 1904 he 
went to Bellevue, this state, where he opened an office and successfully 
practiced until March, 1909, when he returned to his native city and has since 
been identified with his father in a practice which is of extensive and growing 
proportions. He manifests skill of a high order, and the office of the firm is 
one of the best equipped in eastern Iowa.



Dr. Ellis was married to Miss Grace L. Swigart, a daughter of J. M. Swig- art, 
of Maquoketa, now deceased. The young couple have one child, Jean- nette. Dr. 
Ellis holds membership in Bellevue Lodge, No. 51, A. F. & A. M.; Peerless 
Lodge, No. 60, K. P.; and Ben De Meer Temple, No. 12, D. O. K. K. Both he and 
his wife attend the Methodist Episcopal church. Mrs. Ellis is a soloist of some 
note and frequently sings in the Congregational church. She acquired her 
musical education in the Indianapolis Conservatory of Music, in the Omaha 
Conservatory of Music and also by special training under a private instructor 
in Chicago, and her pronounced ability makes her a favorite in musical circles 
of the city. Dr. Ellis belongs to the Maquoketa Commercial Club and is a 
typical American citizen, interested and alert for the benefit \ ^.
of the city in all lines of general progress and improvement.
SIDNEY J. TUBES.
Retiring in 1908 from farm life, Sidney J. Tubbs took up his

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