Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Ellis, Lorenzo January 6, 1836 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Ellis, Lorenzo, Russia, was born in Westmoreland, Oneida county, January 6, 
1836, a son of Daniel Ellis, born in Slab City, Madison county, in 1802.  He 
married Sallie Coy, a native of Madison county, by whom he had five sons and 
one daughter, Orrin, Alanson, Orlando, LeRoy, Lorenzo and Louisa.  He went to 
Oneida county and followed farming, and later in life became a boatman on the 
Erie canal.  He died in Oneida county in 1858 and his wife in 1874.  Lorenzo 
Ellis married November 12, 1858, Jane, daughter of Ozias and Emily (Jenkins) 
Wilcox, natives of Oneida county.  To Mr. Ellis and wife seven children have 
been born:  Frank W., Mary M., Walter and Eugene C., living, and Charles, 
Lewis and Alice, deceased.  Mr. Ellis was a boatman on the Erie Canal from 
1847 to 1863.  He then went to Newport, where he was engaged in lumbering one 
year and in the express and stage business eighteen years.  In 1887 he went to 
Poland and engaged in the hotel business.  In 1889 he purchased property now 
known as the Ellis house, of which his son Frank is proprietor.  Mr. Ellis 
also has a good livery. He is a Republican.  


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source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.

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