Newton Co., IN Biography

Newton County, McClellan Township.  From A History of Warren, Benton, 
Jasper & Newton Counties, 1883. 

   ANDREW J. ELLIS was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, July 31, 
1828, and is one of five children of Elias and Susan (Nash) Ellis.  The father
traces his ancestry to three brothers who came from Wales at a very 
early period of our country's history.  He has spent his life in his 
native state, Ohio, occupied in farming.  He was four years in the 
Ohio House of Representatives, and a similar period in the Senate.  He
was Colonel of militia several years, and at the beginning of the 
rebellion offered his services, which were rejected on account of his 
advanced age.  He and his wife will celebrate their fiftieth wedding 
anniversary September 24, 1883.
   Andrew, the subject of this sketch, received his education at 
Zanesville, Ohio, remaining at home until his majority, when he enlisted
in Company K, Sixteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served three months.
He then became Captain and half owner of a steamboat plying on the 
Ohio and Muskingum Rivers.
   In 1867, he located in Newton County, Indiana, purchasing 900 acres
in McClellan Township, where he now resides, farming and raising stock.
He was married, December 29, 1869, to Susan Peters, daughter of William
and Mary (French) Peters, of Illinois.  Five children were born to them,
two only of whom, Elias and Horace, are living.  The others died in
infancy.  Mr. Ellis is a member of Morocco Lodge, No. 372, A., F. & A.M.
In politics, he is a Democrat, and one of the prominent men of the 
township.


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