Bio of ELLISON, James Hollister (b.1860), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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JAMES HOLLISTER ELLISON - Vol III, pg 249-250
Prominent among the energetic, farsighted and successful business men of
Min­neapolis is James Hollister Ellison the president of the Cedar Lake Ice
Company and vice president of the Winston Dear Company. In these connections he
is controlling important commercial interests that constitute features in the
city's material devel­opment and progress and in the management of important
affairs he displays notably sound judgment and indefatigable energy. Mr. Ellison
is numbered among Minnesota's native sons, his birth having occurred in
Bloomington, on the 13th of February, 1860, his parents being William W. and
Sarah R. (Pond) Ellison, who were natives of Ohio and Minnesota, respectively,
her father being the Rev. Gideon H. Pond, who came to Minnesota in 1834 from
Connecticut in company with his brother, Samuel W. Pond, as a missionary to the
Indians. He was a minister of the Presbyterian church and labored effectively
among the Indians for many years He made his home in Bloom­ington, Hennepin
county, and the old brick house, which he built and for which he burned the
bricks, is still standing, being yet occupied by members of the family. He
established the First Presbyterian church in Bloomington and labored
unfalteringly for the moral progress and development of that section of the
state for many years. He was an honored pioneer settler and much has been
written and published concern­ing the work of himself and his brother in
planting the seeds of civilization on the western frontier. A tablet to his
memory is to be found on the Calhoun road. It was his daughter, Sarah R. Pond,
who became the wife of William W. Ellison, a carpenter by trade, who, however,
devoted much of his life to the occupation of farming.
Their son, James H. Ellison, completed his education in the Minneapolis high
school and afterward took up the work of civil engineering, following this
profession in connection with railroad location and construction. He was for
three years with the Northern Pacific Railroad and for seven years with the
Great Northern Railroad, while from 1895 until 1902 he was employed by the
Winston Brothers as superintendent of construction. Since the latter year he has
been a stockholder and director of the Winston Brothers Company and is now vice
president of the Winston Dear Company, which is an auxiliary of this company. He
has extended his efforts into still other fields and in the spring of 1921 was
elected president of the Cedar Lake Ice Company, having previously served as
vice president for several years. He is likewise a director of the First
National Bank and in all business affairs displays sound judgment com­bined with
the ability readily to discriminate between the essential and the non-essen­tial
and to combine seemingly diverse and unrelated interests and elements into a
unified and harmonious whole.
On the 27th of February, 1890, Mr. Ellison was married to Mrs. Miriam E. Coria
of Escanaba, Michigan, and they are well known in Minneapolis, occupying an
enviable social position. During the World war Mr. Ellison was director of the
bureau of sup­plies for the northern division of the American Red Cross. Mr.
Ellison is keenly-interested in all those problems which have to do with
municipal progress and improve­ments and is now serving for the second term as
senior vice president of the Civic & Commerce Association. He is likewise a
vestryman of St. Mark's church. In trade circles he has also been honored with
election to office, being now second vice president of the Northwestern
Association of General Contractors. He has acted in various capacities in public
service through being chairman of the American committee during its lifetime and
an active factor in the advancement of various projects looking to the welfare
and upbuilding of city and state. His marked characteristics also make for
personal popularity in the different clubs with which he is identified, his
member­ship extending to the Minneapolis Club, the Minikahda Club, the Lafayette
Club, the Automobile Club, the Lincoln Club, the Minnesota Club of St. Paul, the
Union League Club of Chicago and the Algonquin Club of Hibbing, Minnesota. His
acceptance into these organizations, which are among the most prominent in their
respective cities, is at once an indication of his high social and business
standing.