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ELLIS, EDWARD (1842? - 1892), Baptist minister, soldier, and editor of a Baptist newspaper in U.S.A.

Name: Edward Ellis
Date of birth: 1842?
Date of death: 1892
Parent: Evan Ellis
Gender: Male
Occupation: Baptist minister, soldier, and editor of a Baptist newspaper in U.S.A.
Area of activity: Literature and Writing; Military; Printing and Publishing; Religion
Author: Robert (Bob) Owen

Born at Werngrug in the parish of Llanuwchllyn, Meironnydd - his father a brother to Ellis Evans, Cefn-mawr. He emigrated to U.S.A. with his parents in 1850 and lived at Remsen (N.Y.), Waukesha (Wisconsin), Berlin (Wisconsin), etc. He began to preach with the Baptists c. 1866 in the Welsh circles of Waukesha. He was educated at Beaver Dam Academy, Wisconsin. He joined the 22nd battalion of the Wisconsin Volunteers and was commissioned because of his bravery at the battle of Rasaca. He had a second course of education at Madison, going thence to Chicago to study theology. He ministered at Eaglewood (Illinois), Milwaukee, and elsewhere, was secretary to the Home Mission in the two states of Dakota, Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana, and was instrumental in founding several churches, afterwards returning to work in Milwaukee. He founded and edited The Chronicle, a weekly religious newspaper published in Kansas City. He died at the beginning of October 1892, and was buried at Milwaukee.

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Published date: 1959

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