Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Ely, David G 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

David G. Ely is a general farmer and stock-grower on section 1, Hume Township. 
He was born Sept. 20, 1811, in Oneida Co., N. Y. John Ely, his father, was a 
native of New Jersey, and became a prominent farmer of Oneida County. He owned 
about 700 acres of land in the valley of the Mohawk. He built two large jails 
in Oneida Co., N. Y., in an early day, one, in the town of Whitestown, four 
miles west of Utica, which is still standing, the other, in Rome, N. Y., which 
was burned probably about 30 years ago. His death occurred April 14, 1842. 
Beulah A. (Gould) Ely, the mother, was born in Williamstown, Mass., and 
descended from the earliest settlers of New England. She died in February, 
1845. Mr. Ely is the fifth of his parents' ten children. When he was 15 years 
of age he learned the shoe­maker's trade, and made for himself the first pair 
of boots he ever wore. Later, he learned the trade of carpenter and joiner, 
and worked with his father at that business and as a farmer until he was 26 
years of age. Feb. 17, 1836, he was married, in Floyd Township, Oneida County, 
to Alvira Wallace, who was born in that township May 11, 1817, and died Nov. 
26, 1873, in Hume Township. She was the mother of six children, three of whom 
are deceased. Beulah, George and Nancy, who are the survivors, are married. 
Lydia M., Eliza and Lovisa are dead. Mr. Ely was a resident of his native 
State until 1855, when he went to Oshkosh, Wis., and worked there three years 
as a mechanic. In 1858 he located in Hume Township, purchasing 184 acres on 
section 10. He occupied this property five years, when, in 1863, he went to 
the township of Coloma, where he resided three years on 80 acres of land. He 
went back in 1866 to Hume Township, and, after operating three years a little 
east of the central portion of the township, he came to section 1, where he 
had become the owner of 92 acres of land by exchange. His estate is under good 
improvements, and he is engaged in successful farming. Mr. Ely was a second 
time married, Nov. 17, 1876, in Adair Co., Mo., to Mrs. Mary (Paddock) Miner. 
She was born July 18, 1826, in Oneida Co., N. Y., where she was brought up and 
educated. John Paddock, her father, was an enterprising agriculturist of her 
native county. She was first married to Michael Gushing, who was born in 
Vermont and died in Pennsylvania. Two children were born of that earlier 
marriage,—Jane, now Mrs. Buck, and Michael, both of whom are living in Shelby 
Co., Iowa. She married Curtis Miner in Prophetstown, Whiteside County. He was 
a native of Vermont, and died in the military service of. the United States, 
from a gunshot wound. Frank, Curtis and Ella are the names of the children 
born of the second marriage. The oldest and youngest are married. Mr. Ely is a 
Republican in his political opinions.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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