ELLIS, John Willis, American statesman: b. Rowan County, N. C., 25 Nov. 1820; d. Raleigh, N. C., 1861. He was graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1841, was ad mitted to the bar in 1842 and soon acquired a large practice. He was a member of the State House of Commons from 1844 to 1848, when he was elected a judge of the Superior Court of North Carolina. This office, in which he suc ceeded his former preceptor, R. M. Pearson, who was elevated to the Supreme bench, he held until 1858, when he was elected governor of North Carolina. He was re-elected in 1860 and died in office. On 2 Jan. 1861, Governor Ellis took possession of Fort Macon at Beaufort, the works at Wilmington and the Federal arsenal at Fayetteville, professedly on behalf of the State. On 20 April he ordered the seiz ure of the United States mint at Charlotte. He was active in promoting the passage of the secession ordinance in North Carolina.
kLLIS, Mimi A.; Canadian explorer: b.
bewdley, Ontario, about 05. gradu ated at the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Training School for Nurses; later became assistant superin tendent of the S. R. Smith Infirmary the Staten Island Hospital) superintende.nt of the Virginia Hospital, Richmond Va. She mar-, lied Leonidas Hubbard, journalist and expiorer, in 1901; he perished later in Labra dor. She organised an expedition and in 1905 succeeded in completing the exploration work undertaken by her husband by 'crossing the northeastern part of Labrador, now known as the District of Ungava,: Province of 'Quebec; She was the white person to cross the ridge dividing the Naskaupi and George water-. sheds. An account of the expedition, which resulted in some important discoveries, is giVen in her 'A Woman's Way through Unknown Labrador' (1908) and in 'The Bulletin of the American Geographical. Society.'