Robert M. Elliott

As printed in 1894

ROBERT M. ELLIOTT, who as a representative and capable business man of Hamilton has become well known through the adjacent country, was born in this city May 14, 1855. He is a son of William A. and Elizabeth G. (Millikin) Elliott, the former a native of Maryland, and the latter of Hamilton. The family of which he is a member consisted of four daughters and three sons, of whom, besides himself, two sisters survive, viz.: Anna, wife of George W. St. Clair, of Lexington, Ky.; and Mary E., who married Taylor Murphy, of Hamilton.

The father of this family came to Ohio, and purchasing a farm one and one-half miles north of Hamilton, there engaged as a miller of the soil until his death, in 1881, at the age of seventy-two.

His wife survived him until 1887, when she died, at the age of sixty-eight. Our subject’s paternal grandfather, Arthur W. Elliott, was a native of Maryland, and became one of the early settlers of Butler County. He was an uncle of the well known statesman, Dan Voorhees, and was himself a man of much more than ordinary ability. He was not only well posted upon current events, but also a fluent speaker and gifted orator. He was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and traveled on horseback on his circuits in Ohio and Illinois. For some time he preached regularly in Paris, Ill., and that part of the state. In addition to his ministerial work, he carried on a farm, and as an agriculturist also displayed considerable skill and ability. During the famous “log cabin campaign” he was an ardent supporter of the Whig party, and when General Harrison was a candidate for President he traveled with the hero of Tippecanoe, driving him in his own carriage, which was worn out before he reached home at the close of the successful campaign.

The subject of this sketch was reared in Hamilton and upon his father’s farm near the city. In. youth he received a practical education, which fitted him for an honorable and useful career. He remained with his parents as long as they lived, and upon leaving the farm was engaged in the insurance business for ex-Gov. James E. Campbell for eighteen months. Later he was elected County Recorder and served one term, retiring in 1887. He was then appointed Assistant Postmaster under

As printed in Memorial record of Butler County, Ohio, containing biographical sketches of representative citizens of the county together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States (1894). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.