From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, page 278.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


WILLIAM ELLINGHAM

William Ellingham, a prominent citizen of Wheeling and a member of 
the well-known wholesale grocery house of Neill & Ellingham, of 
Wheeling, is a native of Ireland, where he was born in 1839. In 1845 
he came to this country, with his mother, his father having 
immigrated some time before, and located at Wheeling, where he was 
joined by his family.  In that city Mr. Ellingham was reared, and 
received his education in the city schools.  He began his business 
career as a boy in the glass house of Sweeney & Co., where he was 
engaged for one year, finding employment then with Dalzell.  His next 
engagement was with the grocery house of Alexander Turner, on Market 
square, and continued with him as a clerk during the war, on Main 
street, where the store of W. T. Burt now is.  In 1869 Mr. Ellingham 
and James Neill succeeded Mr. Turner in the wholesale grocery 
business, and in 1876 they further enlarged their business by 
purchasing the stock of List, Davenport & Parks, and at that time 
removed to their present commodious quarters on the corner of Main 
and Fourteenth streets.  Mr. Ellingham has taken a considerable 
interest, as a wide-awake citizen, in the proper administration of 
the affairs of the city.  He is now a member of the board of 
education, and in 1889 was elected to the city council for two years 
as the representative of the third ward.  He has been a director of 
the Exchange bank since its organization, and is largely interested 
in and serves as president of the Standard Insurance company.  Mr. 
Ellingham is an Odd Fellow, member of Wheeling lodge, No. 9, and the 
Encampment.  He was married in 1866, to Susan Chambers, of Wheeling, 
and they have had one child, now deceased. 


(Linda Fluharty)