BIOGRAPHIES: Henry G. ELLSWORTH, Barron, Barron County, WI

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Henry G. Ellsworth, district attorney, Barron, was born in Oregon, Wis., April 
14, 1849. His parents are John and Eliza Ann (Green) Ellsworth, natives of New 
York; the former is a son of John and Eliza (Babcock) Ellsorth, and the latter 
a daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Kelly) Green, all natives of New York. Our 
subject's early life was spent in Iowa county, Wis., on a farm, but he was 
educated at the State normal school of Platteville, Wis., and the State 
university of Wisconsin. He was admitted to the bar in 1881. He was appointed 
postmaster in 1869, but resigned in 1872 and went to Oregon, Wis. He went to 
Cumberland, this state, in 1890, and in November of that year was elected 
district attorney by a majority of 777 votes. He is the first district attorney 
to be elected on the democratic ticket in his district. He has also held the 
offices of chairman of the town board and alderman. He was united in marriage 
in July, 1868, with Miss Amelia Barnhisel, of Ellenborough, Grant county, and 
to them were born five children, namely: John, Laura, Anna, George and Clara. 
Mrs. Ellsworth died February 22, 1888, and is interred at Oregon, this state. 
Mr. Ellsworth married November 24, 1889, Miss Blanche A Roe, of Verona, Dane 
county. He is amember of Masonic Lodge No. 151, of Oregon, Wis., and the 
A. O. U. W., of the same place. His wife is a member of the Methodist church.

-Transcribed from the "Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa 
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2", page 874.