Rutland ELLIS, Edward Dyer Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, pp 121-122 (portrait p 122) Edward Dyer ELLIS, of Poultney [Rutland County, Vermont], was born 31 August 1850 in Fair Haven [Rutland County, Vermont], son of Zenas C. and Sarah (DYER) ELLIS. His father, Judge ELLIS, was well known and prominent in the county and state. Mr. Edward ELLIS, having obtained a thorough preparatory training in the schools of Fair Haven, later attended Kimball Union Academy at Meriden [Sullivan County], New Hampshire, which he left in 1869 to enter Middlebury College and from this institution he graduated in 1874. He then devoted himself to a course of professional study in the medical department of Harvard University from which he received a diploma in 1877. In 1878 he settled in Poultney as a practicing physician, in which capacity he has since remained, meeting with success and establishing in connection with his professional labors a druggist's business. He is an adherent of the principles of the Republican party, but has devoted the major part of his time to his professional pursuits, never seeking official preferment, though he is at present chairman of the Republican town committee. On 21 October 1885 at Hampton [Washington County], New York, he [Dr. Edward Dyer ELLIS] was married to Isabella, daughter of R. T. and Lydia (STOWE) RAY. Of this alliance four children are issue: Sarah Blanche, Lydia Stowe, Hannah Dyer, and Rodney Ray. Dr. ELLIS is vestryman and treasurer of St. John's Episcopal Church, and was formerly the president and secretary of the Rutland County Surgical and Medical Society. He is highly esteemed by his acquaintances for the firmness of his character and general ability. He is conservative in his ideas and has met with well-merited success both in public and private life. Submitted by Cathy Kubly