Francis E. Ullyot Biography


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FRANCIS E. ULLYOT, proprietor of one of the fine farms of Thorp 
township, Clark county, is one of the men in whose coming to that 
region all who honor honest industry and good citizenship can rejoice. 
He is a man of progressive, enlightened views, and his standing as a 
pioneer settler and a citizen of prominence is well known. His home is 
located on section 33, and he has gathered around him a property to 
enjoy during his maturer years. 

Mr. Ullyot is a native of Ontario, Canada, and was born August 31, 
1860. He was the second in a family of seven children, six sons and one 
daughter, born to Isaac and Hester (Rogers) Ullyot. His mother's death 
occurred in 1895. Our subject spent his life previous to 1883 on his 
father's farm, and then accompanied his parents to Dakota, where the 
father had located land in 1882. His father relinquished one of his 
claims to our subject and he filed on the land as a pre-emption, taking 
also a tree claim adjoining. His first work on the new farm was 
breaking, and in 1884 he took up a bachelor residence on his claim in 
an 8 x 12 shanty. The father purchased a steam thresher in 1883, and 
our subject and his brothers worked at threshing, and the investment 
proved one of profit. It was the first steam thresher in northern Clark 
county, and the first season they booked twenty-six hundred dollars 
worth of work. In the spring of 1885 our subject began the cultivation 
of his land and his first wheat crop yielded fifteen hundred bushels on 
fifty acres of land, and the oat crop averaged sixty bushels per acre. 
He, with his sons, now possesses one section of land and the entire 
farm is well improved with good buildings for the comfort of the family 
and stock. The barn is a commodious structure, 32 x 56 feet, and our 
subject has at present a herd of about fifteen cows. He is a member of 
the board of directors, and one of the six men instrumental in 
establishing the Garden City Creamery. 

Our subject was married in 1885 to Miss Maria Gregg, a native of 
Ontario, Canada. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Ullyot, 
as follows: Ellsworth, E. Emerson, Zada M. and Edmund. Mr. Ullyot has 
been an active worker for the principles of the Populist party and was 
a delegate to the Farmers' Alliance at Huron, when the party was 
organized, since which time he has advocated the principles of that 
party and has been closely identified with the organization of his 
party in his township. He favors the state control of the liquor 
traffic and opposes equal suffrage. He was elected county commissioner 
of district No. 2, in the fall of 1892, and has been twice reelected, 
still holding that position. He is a man of the very best character, 
thorough and systematic as a farmer and is held in the highest esteem 
by all with whom he comes in contact. He holds membership in the 
Ancient Order of United Workmen.