J. Sidney Ellis
Silver Bow County
History of Montana, Sanders, 1913

J. Sidney Ellis is president of the corporation known as the 
Ellis Paint Company, one of the largest concerns of its kind 
in the state.

A native of Canada, J. Sidney Ellis was born on the 22nd of 
October 1870 and was 17 at the time of his advent in Butte 
in 1887.  For four years thereafter he was in the employ of 
the Richards Paint and Oil Company of Butte and from 1898 
to 1900 he was a partner in the paint firm of Carder 
Brothers.  In 1901 he established the Ellis Paint Company, 
which was incorporated under the laws of the state, with a 
capital stock of twenty thousand dollars in 1901.  The 
official corps of the of the Ellis Paint Company is: J.S. 
Ellis, president; J.S. Dutton, vice-president and Wyman 
Ellis, secretary and treasurer.  The home of the Ellis 
Paint Company is at No. 24 Granite Street and according 
to recent statistics the company does an annual business 
of about one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars.