Il est marié avec Lydia Smith.
Ils se sont mariés le 19 avril 1813 à Conway, Franklin, Massachusetts, USA, il avait 19 ans.
Enfant(s):
Audrey Maxine Ellis' 2nd Great Grandfather
The census of August 14, 1850 indicates that the Samuel Ellis family lived on a farm in South Chicago, Illinois. ; The value of the farm was about $8600, which I suspect was a small fortune at the time. The family included Sam (age 57), his wife Lydia (age 56) and three children, Lyman (age 23) and Hiram (age 21) who both helped their dad with the farm and an older sister Hester (Esther, Hutin) (age25). Samuel was listed as having come from Massachusettes. Lydia's origin was listed as unknown, and the three children were all listed as from Ohio.
Ellis Park as well as Ellis Avenue takes its name from Samuel Ellis, who ran a tavern on 35th Street near the Vincennes Trail (now Ellis Avenue) in the 1830s. In 1855, Ellis subdivided his land holdings between 31st and 39th Streets, from Lake Michigan to South Park Boulevard (now Martin Luther King Drive), donating a wedge-shaped parcel to the city for use as a public park.
The area surrounding Ellis Park developed as the fashionable Oakland neighborhood, but by 1900 the wealthy had begun to move out, and their homes were being recycled as apartments and rooming houses. Ellis Park, too, had been carved up by adjacent residents who extended sidewalks from their homes and planted trees and shrubs on either side. A decaying bandstand added to the sense of disorder. In the early 1900s, the Special Park Commission reclaimed Ellis Park from encroaching property owners. Noted landscape architect and commission member Jens Jensen completely redesigned the 3-acre park. His 1906 plan included two ornamental fountains and a circular, tree-edged lawn.
By 1940, the surrounding neighborhood had experienced further decline. The federal government responded by erecting the Ida B. Wells housing project. Across the street at Ellis Park, the Bureau of Parks and Recreation (successor to the Special Park Commission) installed two new wading pools which drew more than 14,000 children the first summer.
The city transferred Ellis Park to the Chicago Park District in 1959. In 1964, the park district and the Chicago Board of Education began joint operation of the new Donoghue Elementary School at 37th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue. Several years later, the park district purchased additional property east, west, and north of the original park, tripling its size. The park district and the board of education continued to offer joint programming at Donoghue School. Following the demolition of the Ida B. Wells and Madden Park Homes, the programs for Ellis Park were relocated to Doolittle School in the Fall of 2010.
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