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Author: Will T. Hale

   MUMFORD W. ELLIS, M. D. Engaged in the practice of one of the most exacting

professions to which a man may devote his time and energies, Mumford W. Ellis,

M. D., of Clarksville, is actively and prominently identified with the medical

fraternity of Montgomery county, being one of its most progressive and skillful

physicians. He was born, November 6, 1857, in a log cabin in Tippah county,

Mississippi, which was likewise the birthplace of his father, Dr. Wiley M.

Ellis, and the county in which his grandfather, Dr. Benjamin Ellis, settled in

pioneer days.



   Dr. Benjamin Ellis was born and brought up in Virginia, coming from honored

Scotch ancestry. Having fitted himself for the medical profession, he migrated

while yet a young man to Mississippi, locating in Tishomingo county, where he

continued in active practice for many years, living there until his death. He

was a man of unusual physique, vigorous in mind and body, and despite his weight

of three hundred and fifty pounds avoirdupois used to ride through the country

for miles in every direction, visiting his numerous patients wherever they

lived, carrying his medical outfit in his saddle-bags.



   Wiley M. Ellis, M. D., was born in Tippah county, Mississippi, December 5,

1824. He, too, studied medicine when young, and first began the practice of his

profession in Lee county, Mississippi, where he continued for a score of years.

Going then to Riverton, Alabama, he there built up an excellent patronage, and

remained there until his death, July 17, 1909. He was exceedingly successful as

a physician, through his own efforts accumulating a large property. He was a

Democrat in polities, a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Order of Masons,

and belonged to the Baptist church. Dr. Wiley M. Ellis was twice married. He

married first Katherine Gambrell, who was born in Tippah county, Mississippi,

July 5, 1822, and died January 18, 1857, leaving one child, Mumford W. Ellis,

the subject of this sketch. Her father, Bruton Gambrell, migrated from Virginia,

his native state, to Mississippi when young, and as an agriculturist met with

rare success, acquiring title to large tracts of land. Prior to the breaking out

of the war between the states he was very wealthy, but during the conflict he

lost his slaves, and the greater part of his property. One of his sons, Rev.

James Gambrell, is a prominent divine, having charge of a Baptist church at

Dallas, Texas. By his second wife, whose maiden name was Kittie Henderson, Dr.

W. M. Ellis had four children.



   Mumford W. Ellis, M. D., acquired his preliminary education in the public

schools, later attending Cooper Institute, in Mississippi. Inheriting in a large

degree the natural talent and liking for the study of medicine, he, at the age

of seventeen years, entered the University of Louisville Medical College, but

left before completing of his course, and for a time engaged in the practice of

medicine. Returning, how ever, to the college, he was there graduated with the

degree of M. D. on February 25, 1881. The following three years Dr. Ellis was

engaged in the practice of his profession at Guntown, Mississippi, from there

going to Citra, Florida, where he continued for ten years, meeting with

excellent success. Coming then to Tennessee, the Doctor located in Clarksville,

where he has built up a large and highly remunerative patronage, his skill and

ability in the treatment of the many difficult cases brought to him having won

for him the esteem and confidence of the entire community.



   On May 4, 1882, Dr. Ellis was united in marriage with Sallie Anderson, a

daughter of Lewis Anderson, a man of prominence and influence in Davidson

county, Tennessee, and a large landholder, owning upwards of a thousand acres of

land, while her paternal grandfather was for many years considered one of the

wealthiest men in the state. She passed to the higher life February 17, 1902,

leaving three children, namely: M. W. Ellis, of Seattle, Washington; Susie A.,

wife of C. Dinwiddie, of Duluth, Minnesota; and Lewis A., living at home.

Politically Dr. Ellis is a firm adherent of the Democratic party. Fraternally he

belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Religiously he is a member of

the Presbyterian church, to which his family belong.





Additional Comments:
From:



A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in

commerce, industry and modern activities

by Will T. Hale

Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co.,  1913





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