Bio: Ellis, Edwin, Dr. (1881) 
Poster: Sandra Wright
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----Source: History of Northern Wisconsin (Ashland County, Wis.) 1881, Page 74 

Edwin Ellis M.D., Ashland, was born in Oxford Co., Me., May 24, 1824; commenced his education at Farmington Academy, afterward attending Colby University, in Waterville, about 1841 and 1843; went to Bowdoin College, taking final course of lectures in the University of the city of New York. He then returned to Farmington, Me., where he entered on this practice, remaining there till 1854, when he moved to St. Paul, Minn., and in February, 1855, moved to Ashland and squatted on his present location. He went to Dubuque, and getting the survey ordered, came back and took up his land, and preceded to settle the section, and had some thirty families here when the panic of 1857 came. One after the other left, until, 1861, he too, went away, and took the Indian boarding school on Bad River, where he staid till 1866. He then went to Ontonagon, Mich., and opened a drug store, and practiced till 1873, when he returned to Ashland, having granted half of his property to the railroad company, the other part being what now constituted Ellis’s Addition to Ashland. He is engaged in his profession, and has a drug store. He erected his dwelling on 1873. In 1878 he was appointed County Judge, and now holds the office. He was married in 1850 to Miss Martha B. Baker, of New Sharon, Me. They have four children – Augusta S., Danielia, Edwin H. and J. Scott. Dr. Ellis was first master of the Masonic Lodge, which was organized in 1877.