ELLIS, VERNE S.

ELLIS

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Date: 5/23/2005 at 12:59:39

Biography reproduced from page 301 of the History of Kossuth and Humboldt Counties, Iowa published in 1884:

Verne S. Ellis, son of Smitzer and Charlotte Ellis, was born Jan. 16, 1864, in Geauga Co., Ohio. When five years of age his parents moved to Iowa, locating in Montour, Tama county, where his father erected a building for a meat market, but soon sold out and went to work at his trade, being a painter. Mr. Ellis received his education in Montour. In 1879 he went into the office of the Montour Review, to learn the printing business under A. A. Blackman. The paper was discontinued in 1880, when in about two months, Mr. Ellis and brother, David A., started it again, and issued it until September, 1882. They then discontinued its publication and moved the office to Bancroft, Kossuth Col, Iowa, where they were running a paper called the Bancroft Register, which was established April previous. In March, 1883, they started a paper in Luverne called the Kossuth County Review. Getting the material here Monday morning, they sent out the first issue on Saturday evening dated March 16. The paper has been published regularly since then, both papers being owned and published by Mr. Ellis and brother.