My Genealogy Hound

JOHN S. ELLIOTT. One of the pleasantest offices in Springfield is Room 1, of the Mitchell Block, and is the headquarters of J. S. Elliott, who is doing a general insurance business in partnership with Dr. H. C. Dimond, the latter gentleman having been engaged in the business but little more than a year. Mr. Elliott has had a more extended experience, and had the business well established before taking a partner. He represents the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, with which he has been connected for several years, and other companies which guarantee against loss by fire, accident, or the various ways in which life is shortened or property destroyed.

Mr. Elliott was born on the eastern shore of Maryland, near Centerville, county seat of Queen Anne’s County, his natal day being December 9, 1854. His parents were John S. and Martha A. (Sudler) Elliott, both of whom were natives of Maryland and of English ancestry. His mother was a daughter of Arthur Sudler, formerly well known in Queen Anne’s County. Both parents died in their native State, in which they had been life-long residents. The subject of this sketch spent his boyhood on a farm, and during his early years attended the common school in Sudlersville, a town in his native county. At the age of eighteen years he determined to make a home farther West, and accordingly came to Ohio, stopping for a short time in Xenia. He found employment on the farm of M. V. Morris, where he worked for a year at $16 per month.

Young Elliott saved the money thus earned, and going to Dayton, entered the Miami Commercial College, in which he took a full course of study, being graduated in 1875. He then came to Springfield, where he accepted a clerkship in the store of Murphy Bros., with whom he remained only a short time, in September entering upon the insurance business. He first represented the Fireman’s Insurance Company at Dayton, and there continued until the 1st of January, 1885, when he became district agent and opened an office in Springfield. In March, 1889, the firm of Elliott & Dimond was formed, the junior member being a physician with a thoroughness in business tact and knowledge which is proving valuable in his new line of labor.

The gentleman of whom we write has been twice married. The lady who became his wife in 1877 was Miss Mary W. Boyer, daughter of O.P. Boyer, a prominent undertaker of Dayton. She made a happy home for her husband until December 20, 1884, when she was called hence, leaving two children — Lyda B. and John Oliver. Two years later Mr. Elliott contracted a second matrimonial alliance, his bride on this occasion being Miss Nora E. Wood, of Springfield. This estimable lady is a daughter of S. R. and Margaret (McIntire) Wood, and was born and reared in Springfield. Her father is also a native of this county.

The business ability and enterprise of Mr. Elliott are recognized by his fellow-men, who also appreciate his social qualities and manner of life. He is one of the Trustees of the Mitchel Thomas Hospital. In the social and benevolent orders he takes great interest, holding membership in the following: Anthony Lodge, No. 455, F. & A. M.; Palestine Commandery, No. 33, K. T.; Red Star Lodge, No. 205, K. of P., and also the Uniformed Rank, No. 44, of the same fraternity; Lodge No. 51, P. B. O. E.