Career
He went to Albion Academy and Normal Institute in Dane County and Milton College in Rock County, Wisconsin. Rollis lived in the village of Oregon, Wisconsin. Rollis was the publisher and editor of the Oregon Observer and later the Stoughton Courier Hub both in Dane County, Wisconsin.
Rollis served as a trustee of the village of Oregon.
In 1885, Rollis served in the Wisconsin State Assembly as a Republican representative. In 1930, Rollis died of a heart attack at his home in Stoughton, Wisconsin.