Biography source:"HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY," Vol. I, page 277-278.Brant & Fuller, 1890.
"Adam Ellingham, deceased, formerly a prominent and highly esteemed business man of Wheeling, was born in county Donegal, Ireland, about 1803. In his native country he was married to Rebecca Williamson, who bore to him ten children, nine of whom were born in Ireland and one at Wheeling. In 1848, he emigrated to America, and after a brief residence in the vicinity of Zanesville, Ohio, he removed to Wheeling, where he was joined about 1851, by his wife and seven children, two of the latter having died in Ireland. He died at Wheeling, January 25, 1886. His wife passed away April 18, 1868. Eight of their children are now living: Barbara, Jane, William, Rebecca, Bessie, Ellen, Maria and Robert H. Barbara resides in Knox county, Ohio, and Jane, in New York city. The other children make their home at Wheeling, where all are highly esteemed. Robert, with two of the sisters, Bessie and Maria, are engaged in the grocery business at Nos. 70 and 72 Sixteenth street, occupying a three-story brick building, erected in 1889, which is one of the handsome business buildings of the city. Their grocery establishment is completely
stocked and well managed and has a large patronage. Robert H. Ellingham, the business manager of this establishment, also discharges the duties of city assessor, an office to which he was appointed by the city council, in February, 1889. He is active as a business man, influential in politics as a democrat, and is a member of the Patriotic Sons of America."
Adam, a laborer, and Rebecca appear on the 1850 census Ohio, Virginia, before WV with children William 14, Elizabeth 12, Rebecca 9, Ellen 6, and Mariah 2. Also in household are James, a drayman, and Jane Williams (her siblings?) and their child Robert 3; and Ellen and John Crawford. All born in Ireland
"Adam Ellingham, deceased, formerly a prominent and highly esteemed business man of Wheeling, was born in county Donegal, Ireland, about 1803. In his native country he was married to Rebecca Williamson, who bore to him ten children, nine of whom were born in Ireland and one at Wheeling. In 1848, he emigrated to America, and after a brief residence in the vicinity of Zanesville, Ohio, he removed to Wheeling, where he was joined about 1851, by his wife and seven children, two of the latter having died in Ireland. He died at Wheeling, January 25, 1886. His wife passed away April 18, 1868. Eight of their children are now living: Barbara, Jane, William, Rebecca, Bessie, Ellen, Maria and Robert H. Barbara resides in Knox county, Ohio, and Jane, in New York city. The other children make their home at Wheeling, where all are highly esteemed. Robert, with two of the sisters, Bessie and Maria, are engaged in the grocery business at Nos. 70 and 72 Sixteenth street, occupying a three-story brick building, erected in 1889, which is one of the handsome business buildings of the city. Their grocery establishment is completely
stocked and well managed and has a large patronage. Robert H. Ellingham, the business manager of this establishment, also discharges the duties of city assessor, an office to which he was appointed by the city council, in February, 1889. He is active as a business man, influential in politics as a democrat, and is a member of the Patriotic Sons of America."
Adam, a laborer, and Rebecca appear on the 1850 census Ohio, Virginia, before WV with children William 14, Elizabeth 12, Rebecca 9, Ellen 6, and Mariah 2. Also in household are James, a drayman, and Jane Williams (her siblings?) and their child Robert 3; and Ellen and John Crawford. All born in Ireland
Biography source:"HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY," Vol. I, page 277-278.Brant & Fuller, 1890.
"Adam Ellingham, deceased, formerly a prominent and highly esteemed business man of Wheeling, was born in county Donegal, Ireland, about 1803. In his native country he was married to Rebecca Williamson, who bore to him ten children, nine of whom were born in Ireland and one at Wheeling. In 1848, he emigrated to America, and after a brief residence in the vicinity of Zanesville, Ohio, he removed to Wheeling, where he was joined about 1851, by his wife and seven children, two of the latter having died in Ireland. He died at Wheeling, January 25, 1886. His wife passed away April 18, 1868. Eight of their children are now living: Barbara, Jane, William, Rebecca, Bessie, Ellen, Maria and Robert H. Barbara resides in Knox county, Ohio, and Jane, in New York city. The other children make their home at Wheeling, where all are highly esteemed. Robert, with two of the sisters, Bessie and Maria, are engaged in the grocery business at Nos. 70 and 72 Sixteenth street, occupying a three-story brick building, erected in 1889, which is one of the handsome business buildings of the city. Their grocery establishment is completely
stocked and well managed and has a large patronage. Robert H. Ellingham, the business manager of this establishment, also discharges the duties of city assessor, an office to which he was appointed by the city council, in February, 1889. He is active as a business man, influential in politics as a democrat, and is a member of the Patriotic Sons of America."
Adam, a laborer, and Rebecca appear on the 1850 census Ohio, Virginia, before WV with children William 14, Elizabeth 12, Rebecca 9, Ellen 6, and Mariah 2. Also in household are James, a drayman, and Jane Williams (her siblings?) and their child Robert 3; and Ellen and John Crawford. All born in Ireland
"Adam Ellingham, deceased, formerly a prominent and highly esteemed business man of Wheeling, was born in county Donegal, Ireland, about 1803. In his native country he was married to Rebecca Williamson, who bore to him ten children, nine of whom were born in Ireland and one at Wheeling. In 1848, he emigrated to America, and after a brief residence in the vicinity of Zanesville, Ohio, he removed to Wheeling, where he was joined about 1851, by his wife and seven children, two of the latter having died in Ireland. He died at Wheeling, January 25, 1886. His wife passed away April 18, 1868. Eight of their children are now living: Barbara, Jane, William, Rebecca, Bessie, Ellen, Maria and Robert H. Barbara resides in Knox county, Ohio, and Jane, in New York city. The other children make their home at Wheeling, where all are highly esteemed. Robert, with two of the sisters, Bessie and Maria, are engaged in the grocery business at Nos. 70 and 72 Sixteenth street, occupying a three-story brick building, erected in 1889, which is one of the handsome business buildings of the city. Their grocery establishment is completely
stocked and well managed and has a large patronage. Robert H. Ellingham, the business manager of this establishment, also discharges the duties of city assessor, an office to which he was appointed by the city council, in February, 1889. He is active as a business man, influential in politics as a democrat, and is a member of the Patriotic Sons of America."
Adam, a laborer, and Rebecca appear on the 1850 census Ohio, Virginia, before WV with children William 14, Elizabeth 12, Rebecca 9, Ellen 6, and Mariah 2. Also in household are James, a drayman, and Jane Williams (her siblings?) and their child Robert 3; and Ellen and John Crawford. All born in Ireland
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