Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-01-21
DEATH OF DIR. r. b. ELLIS.
From the Carson Appeal, of January A.

From the Carson Appeal, of January a.
This highly cultivated scholar, pro-
found intellect, and true gentleman died
in Carson, last Sabbath morning, while
quietly sitting in his chair. He had
seemed to be improving and high hopes
were entertained of his recovery. Up to
within few hours of his death he APP
peared better than ever, when unexpect-
edly to all, he sat and died, as if going
into peaceful slumber. The manner
of his death was truly Characteristic of
his life. He was a man of quiet wisdom
who yet listened with courtesy to all
with whom he talked, however inferior
they might be to himself in mind or at
tainments. The Doctor was one of the
few real old time gentlemen lett to us as
relies of finer society. While his heart
was kind and his feelings tender, his
manner Was marked by noble pride
and polished courtesy. His mind was
pre-eminently speculative and metaphis-
ical in its bias. He was besides phil
osopher, possessed of true statesmanlite
views, writer Of rare powers, and fine
talker. 1t was a pleasure which no one
will ever forget who enjoyed it, of list
ening to his conversation in which were
combined in an extraordinary degree the
attractive qualities of simplicity and wis
dom. He was an earnest man, and his
actions and words but pictured the living
energy of soul within that was alive to
every noble and magnanimous impulse
and always engaged upon the solution of
some intellectual. human problem, to be
tested and confirmed by trial in practice.
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MIA are grieved to-day to know that their
old time and beloved friend is gone,
while those that knew him later will drop
tear with them in sad memory as they
bid his spirit farewell at the border of
tho grave. While still thinking of him
let US learn the events of this great and
excellent mans life from the following
sketch:
DR.. Ellis was born in Sussex county,
Virginia, December 4, 1912. When
about six years of age his father moved
to a point in Ketucky, near Clarksville,
Tennessee. In his academical course he
graduated at Transylvania University,
Lexington, Kentucky. He afterwards
graduated in medicine at the Pennsyl-
vania Medical College, and entered upon
the practice of his profession. The de-
gree of M. d. was afterwards conferred
upon him by the faculty of Mcdonnell
Medical College in special recognition of
the merits of course of lectures deliv-
cred by him before the students and
faculty of that institution in lS4S-9 upon
cholera, its origin, progress and treat
ment with particular reference to its raw
ages at that time in our own country.
He was engaged in the practice of med
icine forty years, beginning in Bourbon
county, Kentucky, removing shortly af-
terwards to North Western Missouri
He was twice elected to represent the
Northwest Senatorial District of that
State in the State Senate, voting once
for Colonel Benton for United States
Senator, and afterwards against him or
account of his views in relation to tht
admission of Texas. He practiced med
cine in st. Louis, Missouri, from 184(
to 1850, when he removed to California
settling at Sacramento in his profession
He was twice elected to represent Sacra
mento county in the California Legisla
ture, and was President OF the California
State Medical University.
He removed to Carson City, Nevada
in 1861, then to Reno in 1868, where HI
had his residence at the time of hi