Dane County WI Archives Biographies.....Ellis, George H. 1842 - 
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Author: William Kittle

  GEORGE H. ELLIS was born June 24, 1842, and lived on the farm until 1861, when
he enlisted in Co. A of the 11th Wis. Infantry. He was in the battle of Champion
Hills, at the siege of Vicksburg, and campaigned south along the Mississippi to
the Gulf. He took part in the charge on Fort Blakely, Ala., on April 9, 1865. In
1866 he married Isabel Linley, and they moved on a farm until 1871, He then kept
a hotel in Arena for two years. For the next ten years he sold monuments for a
marble company. From 1888 to 1898 he traveled for the Mazomanie Knitting
Company, and from 1893 to 1900 for the Portage Hosiery Company. The children
are: Archie G. and Amy G. Ellis.

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CHAPTER V.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

HISTORY OF THE TOWNSHIP AND VILLAGE
MAZOMANIE
BY

WILLIAM KITTLE

MADISON, WIS.:
STATE JOURNAL PRINTING CO.
1900


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