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Below is a family biography from the book, History of Kentucky, Edition 1 by J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin and G. C. Kniffin and published by F. A. Battey Publishing Company in 1885.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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JOHN C. ELLIS, M. D., physician and druggist, of Birmingham, Marshall Co., Ky., was born in Daviess County, Ky., in 1846. He is the son of Hardin H. and Elizabeth S. Ellis, nee Cottrell, both of whom are direct descendants of Welsh ancestors. Dr. Ellis’ boyhood days were passed on his father’s farm, in his native county, where he received a good English education. In early manhood he determined on a professional life, and having chosen that of medicine, he became a student of Dr. J. B. Knox, under whose preceptorship and that of Dr. C. Cottrell, he performed the usual preparatory reading. He began in 1868, in Hancock County, what has proven to be successful practice. He removed to Birmingham, Marshall County, in 1870, where he now lives. He entered the Louisville Medical College at the beginning of the term 1875-76, receiving the decrees conferred by that institution in the spring of the latter year. Dr. Ellis is not only a skillful and successful physician, as well as a systematic business man, but possesses to a rare degree the spirit of enterprise and of a true gentleman, characteristics which render him popular and give him a place among the best citizens of Marshall County. He is an honored member of the I. O. O. F. and the A. F. & A. M. He was married in 1872, in Birmingham, to Miss Mattie H. Ragan, of Marshall County. We are unwilling to close this brief sketch without mention of the fact that while Dr. Ellis possesses charitable views touching the common good, he is nevertheless an uncompromising advocate of temperance, believing that the use of alcoholic drink is the curse of our nation.

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This family biography is one of 32 biographies included in the Marshall County, Kentucky section of the book, The History of Kentucky, Edition 1 published in 1885 by F. A. Battey Publishing Company.  For the complete description, click here: History of Kentucky, Edition 1

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