City: Memphis<\/p>\n
ELLIS, Robert R<\/strong>., <\/b>wholesale drugs; born West Point, Miss., December 30, 1868; son David Alexandra <\/strong>and Elizabeth Jane (Balch) ELLIS<\/strong>; <\/b>English descent; educated West Point and Holly Springs, Miss.; after completing pharmacy studied one year in medicine under Dr. M. B. Herman<\/b> of Memphis, and at St. Joseph\u2019s Hospital; married Katherine Louise DUKE<\/strong>, <\/b>December 30, 1901; Past E. C. Knights Templar, West Point Commandery No. 20; member Shriners, Memphis Country Club, Tennis, City, Auto and B. M. Clubs; Captain Company D. First Mississippi 1900-1 and 2; Commissioner to World\u2019s Fair at St. Louis from Clay County, Miss.; Director First National Bank, West Point, Miss.; came to Memphis May 1, 1905, position as sales manager Hessig-Ellis Drug Company; in 1906 became assistant to the manager; 1908 elected to office of manager; June, 1910, elected president of the Herssig-Ellis Drug Company; president of the Union Investment Company; president of the Fan-Taz Company, member of Episcopal Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Memphis ELLIS, Robert R., wholesale drugs; born West Point, Miss., December 30, 1868; son David Alexandra and Elizabeth Jane (Balch) ELLIS; English descent; educated West Point and Holly Springs, Miss.; after completing pharmacy studied one year in medicine under Dr. M. B. Herman of Memphis, and at St. Joseph\u2019s Hospital; married Katherine Louise DUKE, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[261,4409,4419],"tags":[2292,1212,1117],"class_list":{"0":"post-7774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-surname-e","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-balch","10":"tag-duke","11":"tag-ellis","12":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10727,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774\/revisions\/10727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}