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George Washington Ellis, the son of George and Amanda Jane (Drace) Ellis, was born in Weston, Platte County, Missouri.
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GEORGE WASHINGTON ELLIS
Edit ProfileEducation
His early education was received in the public schools at Weston, after which he attended the high school at Atchison, Kansas.
He then studied for two years in the law department of the University of Kansas, graduating LL. B.
The next four years he spent in the collegiate department of the university, at the same time practising law in Lawrence, Kansas, in order to defray his expenses.
In 1897 he proceeded to New York City, where he took a two years’ course in the Gunton Institute of Economics and Sociology.
Here his spare moments were spent in postgraduate work in philosophy and psychology at Howard University.
Career
in 1893, and was admitted to the Kansas bar.
In 1899 he passed the examination of the United States Census Board, following which he received an appointment in the census division of the Department of the Interior at Washington, D. C. , where he remained two years.
He was induced to accept this position chiefly because of the opportunity it afforded him of studying the social conditions of the colored race in its native habitat, a subject in which he had become intensely interested.
The next eight years he spent in Liberia, with Monrovia as his headquarters, but under instructions from Washington he undertook numerous expeditions into the hinterland for the purpose of investigating and reporting upon the various tribes of the interior.
He resigned in 1910 and on his return to the United States opened a law office in Chicago, where he quickly acquired a large and lucrative general practise.
His earliest—and perhaps most scholarly work— was Negro Culture in West Africa (1914), a social study of a negro group, selected as typical of the African Black Belt. It received high praise from competent critics for its original research and keen insight. Then followed The Leopard’s Claw (1917), a novel of adventure in the West-African jungle, and Negro Achievements in Social Progress (1915).
It received high praise from competent critics for its original research and keen insight.
Social Progress (1915).
He was a prolific contributor to scientific and literary periodicals, his articles dealing mainly with social institutions and economic problems of the West- African negro.
He was a contributing editor of The Journal of Race Development, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, in which publication some of his best studies appeared.
On the nomination of Sir Harry H. Johnston and Dr. J. Scott Keltic he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain.
He was also the recipient of honors from many other learned societies in Great Britain and the United States.
Achievements
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He studied the West African from every angle— ethnological, linguistic, sociological, and economic—and made an extensive collection of West-African ethnological specimens illustrating all phases of social life and industrial art, which on his return he lent to the National Museum, Washington, for exhibition. He was a prolific contributor to scientific and literary periodicals, his articles dealing mainly with social institutions and economic problems of the West- African negro. He was a contributing editor of The Journal of Race Development, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, in which publication some of his best studies appeared. On the nomination of Sir Harry H. Johnston and Dr. J. Scott Keltic he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain. He was also the recipient of honors from many other learned societies in Great Britain and the United States.
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Negro Culture in West Africa: A Social Study of the Negro Group of Vai-Speaking People, with Its Own Invented Alphabet and Written Language Shown in ... of Their Arts and Life, Fifty Folklo
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Views
A strong Republican, a good campaign speaker, with a thorough knowledge of political issues both national and state, he was frequently heard on the public platform, and wielded much influence in the party counsels.
In spite of his legal and political activities he continued to maintain his interest in sociological work, and in a series of books, pamphlets, and articles which attracted wide attention he gave to the world the results of his West-African studies.
Membership
Kansas bar
On the nomination of Sir Harry H. Johnston and Dr. J. Scott Keltic he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain. He was also the recipient of honors from many other learned societies in Great Britain and the United States.
Personality
He was a good lawyer and excellent speaker, and held briefs not only in all the Illinois courts but also in the Supreme Court of the United States.
Connections
He married, Jan. 27, 1906, Clavender L. Sherman, daughter of Robert Sherman, a member of the Liberian government.
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Republican