John Dunlop Ellis (1867 - 1950)

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Jane Spittle Ellis

Unknown parent

John Dunlop Ellis

Robert Ellis

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Jane Spittle Ellis

Unknown - Unknown

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Robert Ellis

Unknown - Unknown

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Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Paula Joan Ellis

Paula Joan Ellis

Paula Joan Ellis

Paula Joan Ellis Obituary

Dewey Ellis

Amarillo, TX 1930's

Geoffrey Ellis

Geoffrey Ellis

Dr. Albert Ellis

Dr. Allbert Ellis

Anita Kert Ellis

Dr. Albert Ellis

Paula Joan Ellis Headstone

Moreland Cemetery

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In 1867, in the year that John Dunlop Ellis was born, on March 30th, Alaska was bought by the US from Russia for $7.2 million dollars, which worked out to about 2 cents per acre. The newspapers called it "Seward's Folly" because United States Secretary of State William H. Seward negotiated the purchase and Alaska was seen as frozen, useless land.

In 1894, at the age of 27 years old, John was alive when large reserves of oil were discovered on the Osage Indian reservation in Oklahoma. Previously thought to be "useless" land - not even good for farming - the tribe had bought the land themselves. The discovery of oil made the Osage the "richest group of people in the world" at the time.

In 1916, at the age of 49 years old, John was alive when suffragette Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives as a Representative at large from Montana. She was the first woman to hold an elected Federal office. Holding the office for two years, she ran again in 1940 and served another two year term. Montana had granted women unrestricted voting rights in 1914, 6 years before women got the vote nationally.

In 1949, by the time he was 82 years old, on January 25th, the first Emmy Awards (for television) were handed out in Los Angeles. Shirley Dinsdale won for the Most Outstanding Television Personality and Pantomime Quiz Time earned an Emmy for the Most Popular Television Program.

In 1950, in the year of John Dunlop Ellis's passing, on October 2, Charlie Brown appeared in the first Peanuts comic strip - created by Charles Schultz - and he was the only character in that strip. That year, Schultz said that Charlie was 4 years old, but Charlie aged a bit through the years.