This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Ellis, Sample, Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XeB.2ACE/3398 Message Board Post: History of Southeast Missouri, Goodspeeds 1880, pg. 827, Bollinger County, MO HON. JOHN I. ELLIS Hon. John I. Ellis, an intelligent and enterprising young citizen of Bollinger County, Mo., is a son of James K. P. and Margaret (Sample) Ellis. James K. P. Ellis was born in Hawkins County, Tenn., and received a liberal education in the subscription schools. His wife is a native of Greene County, Tenne. After his marriage, Mr. Ellis located in his native county, but in 1865 purchased a farm in Bollinger County, Mo., to which he removed his family. They are the parents of seven children, viz.: William, John I., James F., George F., Mary E., S. E. and Ida M. John I. was born in Hawkins County, Tenn., and being but four years of age when his parents removed to Missouri, has been reared in Bollinger County. His education, which was begun in the public schools was finished at the Carleton Institute, Farmington, Mo. In 1886, after finishing his literary education, he began the study of law, which he has since abndoned and chosen the profession of medicine; and accordingly! has attended two courses of lectures at the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons. In politics he is thoroughly Democratic, and cast his first vote for Hancock. In 1886 he was elected Representative to the Legislature from Bollinger County.