Information from Commemorative Biographical Record of The Upper Lake Region, J. H. Beers & Co., 1905
Father: Judah Ely
Mother: Lucie Sisson
1849 - Moved to Saint Paul
1854 - Returned to Superior, Wisconsin
1856 - Built a sawmill on the Minnesota side of St. Louis Bay
1862 - Returned to St. Paul
1873 - Went to California
Spouse: Catherine Goulais, born Montreal - married 1838; she died in California
Children:
Henry S of Duluth
Augustus B of San Francisco
Sarah, wife of Henry L. Bradley, San Francisco
Edmund Franklin Ely was involved in the "Burnt Over" region of New York in the 1820s-30s, famous for religious revivals. He was a teacher and musician. He was probably recruited for the Ojibwe mission of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) by Frederic Ayer, his friend from Utica who had gone west to teach and be a catechist in the misson. Ely was living in Albany. He rode with a Am. Fur Co. canoe brigade from Mackinaw to Lake Superior's St. Louis River, then took the Savannah Portage to get to Sandy Lake in 1833, where he lived in Wm. Aitkin's fur post and taught Ojibwe about reading and more. He also served at Fond du Lac and Pokegama Lake and at LaPointe. He married Catherine Bissell (her mission name) also known as Catherine Goulet, a mixed French-Canadian and Ojibwe young woman who was at the time serving the ABCFM at Yellow Lake mission. She had been educated at Mackinaw Mission. After the LaPointe mission ended in abt. 1850 in Wiscoonsin, the Elys pioneered in Oneota near the future Duluth and then moved to St. Paul, then went to California. They had a number of children. He was never ordained. They were enterprising and interesting people.
Father: Judah Ely
Mother: Lucie Sisson
1849 - Moved to Saint Paul
1854 - Returned to Superior, Wisconsin
1856 - Built a sawmill on the Minnesota side of St. Louis Bay
1862 - Returned to St. Paul
1873 - Went to California
Spouse: Catherine Goulais, born Montreal - married 1838; she died in California
Children:
Henry S of Duluth
Augustus B of San Francisco
Sarah, wife of Henry L. Bradley, San Francisco
Edmund Franklin Ely was involved in the "Burnt Over" region of New York in the 1820s-30s, famous for religious revivals. He was a teacher and musician. He was probably recruited for the Ojibwe mission of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) by Frederic Ayer, his friend from Utica who had gone west to teach and be a catechist in the misson. Ely was living in Albany. He rode with a Am. Fur Co. canoe brigade from Mackinaw to Lake Superior's St. Louis River, then took the Savannah Portage to get to Sandy Lake in 1833, where he lived in Wm. Aitkin's fur post and taught Ojibwe about reading and more. He also served at Fond du Lac and Pokegama Lake and at LaPointe. He married Catherine Bissell (her mission name) also known as Catherine Goulet, a mixed French-Canadian and Ojibwe young woman who was at the time serving the ABCFM at Yellow Lake mission. She had been educated at Mackinaw Mission. After the LaPointe mission ended in abt. 1850 in Wiscoonsin, the Elys pioneered in Oneota near the future Duluth and then moved to St. Paul, then went to California. They had a number of children. He was never ordained. They were enterprising and interesting people.
Information from Commemorative Biographical Record of The Upper Lake Region, J. H. Beers & Co., 1905
Father: Judah Ely
Mother: Lucie Sisson
1849 - Moved to Saint Paul
1854 - Returned to Superior, Wisconsin
1856 - Built a sawmill on the Minnesota side of St. Louis Bay
1862 - Returned to St. Paul
1873 - Went to California
Spouse: Catherine Goulais, born Montreal - married 1838; she died in California
Children:
Henry S of Duluth
Augustus B of San Francisco
Sarah, wife of Henry L. Bradley, San Francisco
Edmund Franklin Ely was involved in the "Burnt Over" region of New York in the 1820s-30s, famous for religious revivals. He was a teacher and musician. He was probably recruited for the Ojibwe mission of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) by Frederic Ayer, his friend from Utica who had gone west to teach and be a catechist in the misson. Ely was living in Albany. He rode with a Am. Fur Co. canoe brigade from Mackinaw to Lake Superior's St. Louis River, then took the Savannah Portage to get to Sandy Lake in 1833, where he lived in Wm. Aitkin's fur post and taught Ojibwe about reading and more. He also served at Fond du Lac and Pokegama Lake and at LaPointe. He married Catherine Bissell (her mission name) also known as Catherine Goulet, a mixed French-Canadian and Ojibwe young woman who was at the time serving the ABCFM at Yellow Lake mission. She had been educated at Mackinaw Mission. After the LaPointe mission ended in abt. 1850 in Wiscoonsin, the Elys pioneered in Oneota near the future Duluth and then moved to St. Paul, then went to California. They had a number of children. He was never ordained. They were enterprising and interesting people.
Father: Judah Ely
Mother: Lucie Sisson
1849 - Moved to Saint Paul
1854 - Returned to Superior, Wisconsin
1856 - Built a sawmill on the Minnesota side of St. Louis Bay
1862 - Returned to St. Paul
1873 - Went to California
Spouse: Catherine Goulais, born Montreal - married 1838; she died in California
Children:
Henry S of Duluth
Augustus B of San Francisco
Sarah, wife of Henry L. Bradley, San Francisco
Edmund Franklin Ely was involved in the "Burnt Over" region of New York in the 1820s-30s, famous for religious revivals. He was a teacher and musician. He was probably recruited for the Ojibwe mission of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) by Frederic Ayer, his friend from Utica who had gone west to teach and be a catechist in the misson. Ely was living in Albany. He rode with a Am. Fur Co. canoe brigade from Mackinaw to Lake Superior's St. Louis River, then took the Savannah Portage to get to Sandy Lake in 1833, where he lived in Wm. Aitkin's fur post and taught Ojibwe about reading and more. He also served at Fond du Lac and Pokegama Lake and at LaPointe. He married Catherine Bissell (her mission name) also known as Catherine Goulet, a mixed French-Canadian and Ojibwe young woman who was at the time serving the ABCFM at Yellow Lake mission. She had been educated at Mackinaw Mission. After the LaPointe mission ended in abt. 1850 in Wiscoonsin, the Elys pioneered in Oneota near the future Duluth and then moved to St. Paul, then went to California. They had a number of children. He was never ordained. They were enterprising and interesting people.
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