Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Ellis, Alanson July 22, 1828 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Ellis, Alanson, Russia, was born in Rome, Oneida county, July 22, 1828, and is 
a son of Daniel and Sallie (Coy) Ellis.  The grandfather of Alanson was Asa, a 
son of Daniel Ellis, who served in the Revolutionary War.  Asa was a native of 
Connecticut, and came to Madison county, N.Y., where he lived and died in 
1838.  His wife was Lavina Ellis, who died in 1838, by whom he had two sons 
and two daughters.  Mr. Ellis was in the war of 1812.  Alanson Ellis was 
reared on a farm and received a common school education.  In 1850 Sarah Cow, a 
native of ireland, became his wife, and they had one son and five daughters, 
of whom two are living, Francis and Mary.  Mrs. Ellis died in 1866, and in 
1867 Mr. Ellis married Ruth Wheaton, of Rome, N.Y., by whom he had two 
children, Jennie and Emma.  Mrs. Ellis died in 1879, and in 1882 he married 
Louisa Hazelton, of Middleville.  For thirty-two seasons, beginning with 1847, 
Mr. Ellis was a boatman on the Erie Canal.  In 1877 he went to Ohio, Herkimer 
county, where he and a brother bought a saw-mill, in which they were engaged 
six years.  Mr. Ellis then went to Iowa, where he followed butchering and 
farming.  From 1880 to 1881 he resided in Newport and then became a farmer of 
Poland.  In 1886 he commenced butchering in Poland, which he has since 
followed. He is a Democrat.


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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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