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SOURCE: History of St. Clair County, Mich.
        by Arthur St. Clair
        A. T. Andreas & Co., Chicago - 1883

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        CAPT. THOMAS A. ELLERY, P.O. Marysville, Section 32, is a native of
    Vermont, born May 20, 1837.  Removed to Port Huron November, 1851, and
    remained a resident of that city until 1879, when he came to this
    place.  In the spring of 1852, he sailed on the schooner Eugene, with
    CAPT. JOHN SINCLAIR, Sr., and finished the season in the Lady Jane,
    acting as master of her during the illness of the Captain.  In 1853,
    CAPT. ELLERY sailed the scow Baltic, and during the following three
    years sailed the schooner Trader, schooner Star, and other craft; owned
    and sailed schooner EMMA about three seasons; was half-owner and master
    of the brig Preble; owner and master of schooner S. L. Noble and scow
    Hannah; sailed steam barge Nelson Mills in the fall of 1870.  In 1871,
    was sailing master of schooner R. J. Gibbs in the Cleveland and Mon-
    treal trade.  In 1872, was mate of steam barge Mary Mills, and since
    then has sailed propellers and barges for the Mills Transporation Com-
    pany.  Will sail the new steam barge now building and unnamed, for this
    company, during the season of 1883.  During thirty years of life on the
    water, CAPT. ELLERY has never lost a season, and has been master
    twenty-eight years of that time.  He is also a practical ship carpenter
    which trade he works at during the winter months.  In 1857, CAPT.
    ELLERY was married to Miss AMELIA HALLINAN, of Port Huron, by whom he
    has seven children, one of whom, the oldest boy, was accidentally
    killed by the street cars.  The living children are named AMELIA,
    ESTELLA, HERBERT, ARTHUR and GRACE.

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