BIO: C. B. ELLIOTT, M.D., Clearfield County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Banja & Sally Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/ NOTE: Use this web address to access other bios: http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/1picts/swoope/swoope.htm _____________________________________________________________ From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr., Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 358-360. _____________________________________________________________ C. B. ELLIOTT, M. D., physician and surgeon, who has been located at Coalport, Clearfield county, Pa., since 1892, was born near Cumberland, Md., April 23, 1854, and is a son of John and Catherine (Miller) Elliott. John Elliott was born near Ligonier, Pa., a son of John Elliott, who came to America from Ireland, in 1792. The history of the Elliotts, or, as originally written - Eliot or Ellis - dates back to the 11th century. William H. Eliot was a leader under, and principal adviser of William, Duke of Normandy during the Conquest, 1066. It was a John Eliot who held the fort at Gibraltar, against Spain, at that time being a commander in the British Navy. The family is traced to the north of Britain and the name Eliot perhaps was thus written when the family had estates near Eliot, Dundee, Scotland. The old Eliot stronghold is at Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall, England. It was purchased by John Eliot, son of Edward Eliot, of Cutland, Devonshire. The arms of the Eliot family are thus mentioned in heraldy: Argent; a fesse gules, between double coutises wavy azure; Crest: and elephant's head, argent, plain collared gules; Supporters: two eagles, reguardent wings displayed and inverted proper, each charged on the breast with an ermine spot sable. The motto: "Proedentibus insta" is freely translated as "Press close upon those who take the lead." Sir John Whitaker Ellis, or Eliot, descended from two chiefs: Charles Ellis, of Abbots Bromley, and George Ellis, who was at the conquest of Jamaica in 1656. The latter's grandson, Charles Rose Ellis, of Claremont, Surrey, was, on July 15, 1826, created Baron Seaford. It was from this branch of the family came Charles Augustus Ellis, the sixth Baron Howard De Walden; while from the Abbot Bromley branch, one of its members, Sir John Whitaker Ellis, represented the City of London as Lord Mayor. The crest of this family is thus described: A female figure ppr. vested or, holding in the dexter hand a chaplet of roses gules, and in the senister a palm branch slipped vert (Middlesex). The progenitors of the American Ellis family can be traced to Wales. Richard Ellis was born in Dublin, Ireland, August 10, 1704. His father, a native of Wales, died when Richard was about thirteen years of age and the next authenticated record is of his appearing at Plymouth, Mass. His descendants are almost without exception people who have achieved importance in some way. Included in these are: O. W. Ellis, of Chicago, Ill.; Rev. Charles H. Ellis, of Kingston, N. Y.; Stewart H. Elliott, of New York City; C. B. Elliott, M. D., of Coalport, Pa.; W. Dixon Ellis, of New York City; Marshall Elliott, of Baltimore, Md., born at Wilmington, N. C., January 24, 1846, a son of Aaron E. Elliott - Harvard, 1868, Ph.D., Princeton, 1877, LL.D., Wake Forest, N. C., 1891 Modern Languages, Associate of the American Philogical Society and the Maryland Historical Society; and John Whittaker Elliott, M. D., of Boston, Mass., born at Keene, N. H., in October, 1852, son of John Henry Elliott, a member of the Maryland University Alumni, the Johns Hopkins and the Rolland Park Country Club. John Elliott, father of Dr. Elliott, of Coalport, resided at different places during life, for many years being engaged in lumbering and having his home alternately or successively at Mt. Savage, Southampton, Tipton and Tyrone, in 1880 moving from the latter place to Coalport, where he opened the first store in the place, the old building where he conducted it still being in evidence. He died here in 1890 at the age of seventy-four years. He married Catherine Miller, who was born at Addison, Somerset county, Pa., and died in 1910, aged about eighty years. They had three children: C. B.; Jack M. and Laura B. Jack M. Elliott was active in Republican politics and at one time was the nominee of his party for sheriff, and while the county had a large normal Democratic majority, he came within 200 votes of winning the election. He resides at Coalport. Laura B. Elliott became the wife of J. C. Weller, county superintendent of schools of Somerset county. They reside at Gebhart. C. B. Elliott was educated at Tipton Academy, where he was a student for five years. In 1871 he entered Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, where he was graduated in the class of 1874. He located at Osceola Mills and practiced there for one year, when the place was practically destroyed by fire and he then settled at Altoona and four years later moved to Indianapolis, Ind., but one year later came back to Pennsylvania and was established for five years at Utahville, in Clearfield county. He suffered a second loss by fire and in 1884 located again at Altoona, where he was in practice until 1892, when there appeared to be a particularly good professional opening at Coalport, and he has been in active practice here ever since. He is one of the county physicians. Dr. Elliott makes a specialty of diseases of the eye and in treating these delicate organs he has been more than usually successful. Dr. Elliott was married in 1880 to Miss Laura M. Cherry, a daughter of John W. Cherry, who formerly was an undertaker at Altoona. Mrs. Elliott died in 1891. Dr. Elliott takes a great deal of pride in his ancestral history, although some of the later records are not complete, family annals having been lost with other important documents, in the fire that destroyed his effects while in practice at Altoona.