Charles C. Ellsworth

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Charles C. Ellsworth
Brady-Handy Photo collection, Library of Congress.
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 8th district
In office March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1879
Preceded by	Nathan B. Bradley
Succeeded by	Roswell G. Horr
Member of the Michigan House of Representatives
In office 1852–1854
Member of the Vermont General Assembly
Personal details
Born	(1824-01-29)January 29, 1824 Democrat
Spouse	Elizabeth Gay Ellsworth
Profession	Lawyer

Charles Clinton Ellsworth (January 29, 1824 – June 25, 1899) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.

Biography

Ellsworth was born in the village of West Berkshire in Berkshire, Vermont. His mother Bathama Ellsworth died when he was two years old. His father, William C. Ellsworth, was a native of Connecticut and moved to Vermont at an early age. He was a locally eminent physician and was several times elected to the Vermont General Assembly.

Charles Ellsworth attended the common schools in West Berkshire, as well as the academy at Bakersfield. He taught school in Vermont for one winter and then moved to Howell, Michigan to study law with his brother-in-law Josiah Turner, who was then a practicing attorney and would later become a county and circuit judge and sit on the Michigan Supreme Court.

Ellsworth taught school in Howell during the winter and studied law until he was admitted to the

In the spring of 1863, during the Civil War, Ellsworth was appointed by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln to be Paymaster of Volunteers in the Union Army, in which position he served until the end of the war with the rank of major. He was not attached to any regiment, but was assigned to the Army of the Cumberland.

After the war, Ellsworth returned to the practice of law in Greenville, where he became the first president when the village incorporated in 1867.

In 1876, Ellsworth was elected as a

• United States Congress. "Charles C. Ellsworth (id: E000144)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved on 2008-02-14
• The Political Graveyard
• Barnard, F. A., ed. (2005) [1878]. "Representative Men of Michigan". American biographical history of eminent and self-made men ... Michigan volume. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Library. pp. 13–14. Retrieved 2007-03-10.
• Dasef, John W. (2005) [1916]. "Montcalm County, Michigan". History of Montcalm County, Michigan its people, industries and institutions...with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Library. p. 511. Retrieved 2007-03-10.

External links

• "Charles C. Ellsworth". Find a Grave. Retrieved 2008-02-14.