Biographical Sketch of Paul Ellis, Wright County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Paul Ellis, dealer in aok railroad ties, fence posts and hardwood 
lumber, and also general merchant at Cedar Gap, Wright Co., Mo., was
born in Waldo, Webster County, Mo., September 28, 1858, and was there
reared to manhood.  He received his education in Mountain Dale Semi-
nary, and began earning his own living, by teaching a district school
at the age of seventeen years.  He became one of the popular educators
of Webster and Wright counties, but at the end of six years gave up
this calling to become a mercantile clerk.  He first engaged in merc-
antile pursuits on his own account at Duncan, but three months after-
ward came to Cedar Gap, where he engaged in his present business four
years later.  In 1888 he checked by the Greene County Bank $23,000
shipping the same year 517 car loads of lumber, and February, 1889,
shipped 147 car loads.  Mr. Ellis has been remarkably successful, as
he began business with nothing, and is now considered one of the 
prosperous young business men of the county.  When twenty-four years
old he was married to Miss Mollie Pyatt, a native of Wright County,
Mo., born in 1862, by whom he became the father of three children:
Jesse, living, and Victoria and Victor, deceased.  Mr. Ellis is a
Republican, a Mason, and a son of J. W. Ellis, who was orn in North
Carolina, and there married Rachel Mingus.  He was a carpenter by 
trade, and in 1852 came to Missouri, enlisting from this state in the
Confederate army, and was killed, while on his way home, by a band of
robbers.  His wife, who was born in North Carolina, is still living,
and resides in Duncan.  Her mother is also living.  Mrs. Paul Ellis is
a daughter of Judge Joseph and Jane (Allen) Pyatt, who were also 
natives of North Carolina, and were there reared and married.  After
coming to Missouri Mr. Pyatt was elected judge of the Wright County
Court, and was farmer and school teacher by occupation.  He was a 
Federal soldier in the late war.

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