Andrew Henry Ellison
Andrew Henry Ellison, of West Union, is one of the best known men in Adams County. He has been in public life since his majority and enjoys a wide circle of friends and acquaintances. He is the son of Andrew Ellison, of Brush Creek, who married Harriet Collier, a daughter of Colonel Daniel Collier, a pioneer of Adams County. Our subject was born May 3, 1843. on the old Collier farm settled by Col. Daniel Collier in 1795, and selected by him as one of the prettiest situations on Ohio Brush Creek. He obtained a good education in the common schools, and worked on his father's farm until the breaking out of the Civil War. When Company D of the 24th Regiment was forming he attempted to enlist but was rejected on account of age and size. He then drove team in the service until he attained his majority, when he enlisted in Company D, 121st Ohio, and served till the close of the war. After the close of the war, he became a merchant, first at Dunkinsville and afterwards at Russellville, Brown County. He sold his store, and became Deputy Sheriff under Henry McGovney, which position he held for four years. He then clerked for Connor, Boyles and Pollard at West Union until appointed postmaster there in 1887. which position he creditably filled for four years. He then took charge of the new Palace Hotel, where he yet presides, and no landlord has more warm personal friends among the Knights of the grip, than Andy Ellison. "Once his guest, always his friend," they say.
In January, 1872, he married Lydia Truitt. by whom he has had two daughters, Kate, a beautiful and lovely child who died in 1887. and Roena, wife of Michael J. Thomas, son of Hon. H. J. Thomas of Manchester. In politics, Mr. Ellison is a Democrat of the old school, and one of the very staunchest supporters of William Jennings Bryan. He takes a humanitarian view of life and no man will go further to relieve the distressed than he. He is a member of the U. R. K. of P. at West Union.
From History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900