Ellis P. Titus Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1242, 1245 in "History of Dakota 
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				ELLIS P. TITUS. 

	Ellis P. Titus is conducting a real-estate and insurance business 
in Clark, where he has been located since 1910 and where he has already 
made for himself a creditable name and place. His birth occurred in 
Henry county, Illinois, on the 3d of October, 1864, a son of Francis 
and Lydia (Arnold) Titus, both of whom are still living. The father has 
devoted his life to general agricultural pursuits. 

	Ellis P. Titus is indebted to the public-school system of Iowa 
for the educational opportunities which he enjoyed as his parents had 
removed to that state when he was but four years old. After leaving 
school he assisted his father on the farm and later engaged in the farm 
implement business and went upon the road, traveling for different 
machinery come panics for about two and a half years. He then returned 
to the old home farm in Taylor county, Iowa, where he lived for about 
fourteen years and on the expiration of that period came to South 
Dakota in 1910. Settling in Clark, he opened a real-estate office which 
he has since conducted. He is now thoroughly acquainted with property 
values, knows what is upon the market and what can be purchased 
advantageously, and as time has passed he has negotiated various 
important realty transfers. He now owns considerable property both in 
the county and town and is also agent for the Colonial Trust & Land 
Company. In 1912 he handled six thousand acres. 

	On the 17th of August, 1892, Mr. Titus was united in marriage to 
Miss Etta Webb, a daughter of William and Martha Webb, of Iowa, and 
they have become parents of four children: Ruth M., Francis Philip, 
Worth and Reid. Mrs. Titus is a member of the Christian church. 

	Mr. Titus has for a quarter of a century been identified with the 
Odd Fellows society and in politics exercises his right of franchise in 
support of the men and measures of the republican party. Coming to the 
northwest, he has already been recognized as a factor in the 
substantial growth of Clark county and in all of his business dealings 
has been thoroughly imbued with the spirit of enterprise and progress 
which has become the dominant factor in the upbuilding of the state,