Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1907 — REPRESENTATIVES OF INDIANA [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

REPRESENTATIVES OF INDIANA

Ellas S. Holliday, Republican, of Brazil, who represents the Fifth congressional district, was born in Aurora, Ind., March 5, 1842; was taken west by his parents and spent his early life on a farm; secured a common school education and, later in life, a partial academic education. He served through the war of the rebellion in a Kansas regiment, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1873. He was elected to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, Fifty-, ninth and Sixtieth congresses. ——

ELIAS S. HOLLIDAY.