BIOGRAPHY: Leon Walker Ellis; Syracuse, Onondaga co., NY
surname: Ellis, Carter, Kauffman, Alymer, Leete, Holt

Transcribed by W. David Samuelsen
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AN INLAND EMPIRE AND THEIR PEOPLE, BIOGRAPHICAL, VOLUME IV, W. FREEMAN GALPIN,
PH.D.
Publishers, LEWIS HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC., NEW YORK, 1941, expired
copyright.

     LEON WALKER ELLIS - Since his student days at Syracuse University, Leon
Walker Ellis has been associated with the management of the Student Supply
Company store which he helped to organize and in which he now holds
controlling interest. During this time he not only has enjoyed business
success but has been prominently identified with university affairs arid
several social and civic organizations in the city.

     Mr. Ellis was born at Albany, May 28, 1884, the son of Demorna and
Delphine (Carter) Ellis, and the grandson of Alexander Dunbar Ellis, who like
his father, was a merchant tailor in Owego. Through his paternal grandmother,
Minerva (Leete) Ellis, Mr. Ellis is said to be a descendant of the first
Governor of Connecticut. His grandfather on his mother's side was Andrew
Carter, who came to this country from England during his youth and settled in
Owego. After completing a general education at the Owego High School. Mr.
Ellis matriculated at Syracuse University from which he was graduated with a
degree of Mechanical Engineering in the class of As an undergraduate he was an
active and popular figure in campus affairs. He was coxswain of the crew
coached by the famous "Jim" Ten Eyck, and stroked by the latter's son. It was
during his junior year in college that he became interested in the Student
Supply Company. He, with Clarence Hills, Walter Edwards and Arthur Green,
organized the venture in a small room. Today the shop occupies an entire
building.

     Mr. Ellis, in 1940, was president of the National Association of College
Stores. He fraternizes with the Masonic Order, in which he is a member of the
Blue Lodge and Consistory and holds a thirty-second degree, belongs to the
Pleasant Point Club on Lake Ontario and worships at the Trinity Episcopal
Church, in which he is senior warden, has served as junior warden and for
twenty years was a member of the vestry. As an undergraduate he belonged to
the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, and is president of the Syracuse Alumni
Chapter.

     In 1912 Mr. Ellis married (first) Inez Holt, who died in 1918. He
married (second), at Syracuse, June 9, 1920, Helen L. Alymer, daughter of
Frank C. and Rose (Kauffman) Alymer, and they are the parents of one son,
Edwin A., born October 19, 1925.