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John Elliott's maternal grandfather, Jean-Simon Chaudron (1758-1846), came from France to Philadelphia, ultimately settling in Mobile, Alabama, where he died. He was a silversmith, and famous as a poet and orator in his day, but is remembered more for his fine coin silver work today. He delivered a notable "Funeral Oration" on President George Washington in Philadelphia on Jan. 1, 1800.
He was also one of the founders of the Vine & Olive Colony at Demopolis, Alabama, upriver from Mobile. The ill-fated venture sought to settle Bonapartist refugees in an enclave of commercial productivity to benefit the ruined exiled noblemen but which ultimately was a dismal failure.
A first cousin of John Felix Elliott was Paul Chaudron (1819-1859), the husband of Adelaide de Vendel Chaudron (1817-1898), author of the famous Chaudron's Speller and other reading lesson books widely known in the Antebellum America.
John Felix Elliott married first, in 1859 in Mobile, to Miss Frank Armstrong Crawford, the daughter of Judge Robert Leighton Crawford of Mobile. The first marriage was annulled and Frank Crawford Elliott later went on to marry her grandmother's first cousin, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, 45 years her senior.
John F. Elliott married his second wife Alice Pettibone on 23 May 1866 in Monroe County, Alabama, where they resided twenty years.
After her death, John Felix Elliott moved to Texas.
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ELLIOT, John F. Col.
Col. John F. Elliot died at his home, 93 Cadiz Street, Dallas, Texas, at 9:55 o'clock, Saturday night, February 3, 1901, after an illness of eighteen months duration. He was born in Mobile, Ala., July 14, 1835; was a graduate of Spring Hill College; served as an employee of a banking firm for several years; enlisted in the Confederate army as a volunteer in the first company organized in New Orleans (that of Captain Charles Drew, the first Confederate officer killed in the war); served first at Pensacola, Florida, and later (under Magruder) in Virginia; was Lieutenant of heavy artillery at the siege of Vicksburg; engaged in business at New Orleans after the war; married in 1866, at Claiborne, La., Miss Alice Pettibone, who died in 1888; was on the editorial staff of the Philadelphia (Pa.) Press for several years; moved to Galveston in 1874, and in 1878 to Dallas, where he acquired an interest in and became editor of the Dallas Daily Herald; was Commissioner-in-Chief from Texas to the New Orleans Exposition in 1884; moved to Washington City in 1885, on the Dallas Daily Herald being absorbed by the Dallas Morning News, and remained there two years, during which time he married Miss Ada Stewart, who died in February, 1892, leaving him two children; returned to Dallas and engaged in the land and loan business until 1894, when he purchased the Dallas Times-Herald, of which he continued editor until the fall of 1899, when he sold the paper, failing health compelling him to retire from active pursuits
Four children survive him: Wm. W. Elliot, of Corsicana, Adele, Stewart, and Ada. He was a member of the Masonic and I.O.O.F. fraternities.
His speech at the New Orleans Exposition attracted wide and favorable attention to Texas.
He was one of the organizers of the Texas Press Association, and was a noteworthy figure in Texas journalism.
(Source: Year Book for Texas, Caldwell Walton Revines, Gammel Book Co. (1902)
John Elliott's maternal grandfather, Jean-Simon Chaudron (1758-1846), came from France to Philadelphia, ultimately settling in Mobile, Alabama, where he died. He was a silversmith, and famous as a poet and orator in his day, but is remembered more for his fine coin silver work today. He delivered a notable "Funeral Oration" on President George Washington in Philadelphia on Jan. 1, 1800.
He was also one of the founders of the Vine & Olive Colony at Demopolis, Alabama, upriver from Mobile. The ill-fated venture sought to settle Bonapartist refugees in an enclave of commercial productivity to benefit the ruined exiled noblemen but which ultimately was a dismal failure.
A first cousin of John Felix Elliott was Paul Chaudron (1819-1859), the husband of Adelaide de Vendel Chaudron (1817-1898), author of the famous Chaudron's Speller and other reading lesson books widely known in the Antebellum America.
John Felix Elliott married first, in 1859 in Mobile, to Miss Frank Armstrong Crawford, the daughter of Judge Robert Leighton Crawford of Mobile. The first marriage was annulled and Frank Crawford Elliott later went on to marry her grandmother's first cousin, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, 45 years her senior.
John F. Elliott married his second wife Alice Pettibone on 23 May 1866 in Monroe County, Alabama, where they resided twenty years.
After her death, John Felix Elliott moved to Texas.
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ELLIOT, John F. Col.
Col. John F. Elliot died at his home, 93 Cadiz Street, Dallas, Texas, at 9:55 o'clock, Saturday night, February 3, 1901, after an illness of eighteen months duration. He was born in Mobile, Ala., July 14, 1835; was a graduate of Spring Hill College; served as an employee of a banking firm for several years; enlisted in the Confederate army as a volunteer in the first company organized in New Orleans (that of Captain Charles Drew, the first Confederate officer killed in the war); served first at Pensacola, Florida, and later (under Magruder) in Virginia; was Lieutenant of heavy artillery at the siege of Vicksburg; engaged in business at New Orleans after the war; married in 1866, at Claiborne, La., Miss Alice Pettibone, who died in 1888; was on the editorial staff of the Philadelphia (Pa.) Press for several years; moved to Galveston in 1874, and in 1878 to Dallas, where he acquired an interest in and became editor of the Dallas Daily Herald; was Commissioner-in-Chief from Texas to the New Orleans Exposition in 1884; moved to Washington City in 1885, on the Dallas Daily Herald being absorbed by the Dallas Morning News, and remained there two years, during which time he married Miss Ada Stewart, who died in February, 1892, leaving him two children; returned to Dallas and engaged in the land and loan business until 1894, when he purchased the Dallas Times-Herald, of which he continued editor until the fall of 1899, when he sold the paper, failing health compelling him to retire from active pursuits
Four children survive him: Wm. W. Elliot, of Corsicana, Adele, Stewart, and Ada. He was a member of the Masonic and I.O.O.F. fraternities.
His speech at the New Orleans Exposition attracted wide and favorable attention to Texas.
He was one of the organizers of the Texas Press Association, and was a noteworthy figure in Texas journalism.
(Source: Year Book for Texas, Caldwell Walton Revines, Gammel Book Co. (1902)
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John Elliott's maternal grandfather, Jean-Simon Chaudron (1758-1846), came from France to Philadelphia, ultimately settling in Mobile, Alabama, where he died. He was a silversmith, and famous as a poet and orator in his day, but is remembered more for his fine coin silver work today. He delivered a notable "Funeral Oration" on President George Washington in Philadelphia on Jan. 1, 1800.
He was also one of the founders of the Vine & Olive Colony at Demopolis, Alabama, upriver from Mobile. The ill-fated venture sought to settle Bonapartist refugees in an enclave of commercial productivity to benefit the ruined exiled noblemen but which ultimately was a dismal failure.
A first cousin of John Felix Elliott was Paul Chaudron (1819-1859), the husband of Adelaide de Vendel Chaudron (1817-1898), author of the famous Chaudron's Speller and other reading lesson books widely known in the Antebellum America.
John Felix Elliott married first, in 1859 in Mobile, to Miss Frank Armstrong Crawford, the daughter of Judge Robert Leighton Crawford of Mobile. The first marriage was annulled and Frank Crawford Elliott later went on to marry her grandmother's first cousin, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, 45 years her senior.
John F. Elliott married his second wife Alice Pettibone on 23 May 1866 in Monroe County, Alabama, where they resided twenty years.
After her death, John Felix Elliott moved to Texas.
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ELLIOT, John F. Col.
Col. John F. Elliot died at his home, 93 Cadiz Street, Dallas, Texas, at 9:55 o'clock, Saturday night, February 3, 1901, after an illness of eighteen months duration. He was born in Mobile, Ala., July 14, 1835; was a graduate of Spring Hill College; served as an employee of a banking firm for several years; enlisted in the Confederate army as a volunteer in the first company organized in New Orleans (that of Captain Charles Drew, the first Confederate officer killed in the war); served first at Pensacola, Florida, and later (under Magruder) in Virginia; was Lieutenant of heavy artillery at the siege of Vicksburg; engaged in business at New Orleans after the war; married in 1866, at Claiborne, La., Miss Alice Pettibone, who died in 1888; was on the editorial staff of the Philadelphia (Pa.) Press for several years; moved to Galveston in 1874, and in 1878 to Dallas, where he acquired an interest in and became editor of the Dallas Daily Herald; was Commissioner-in-Chief from Texas to the New Orleans Exposition in 1884; moved to Washington City in 1885, on the Dallas Daily Herald being absorbed by the Dallas Morning News, and remained there two years, during which time he married Miss Ada Stewart, who died in February, 1892, leaving him two children; returned to Dallas and engaged in the land and loan business until 1894, when he purchased the Dallas Times-Herald, of which he continued editor until the fall of 1899, when he sold the paper, failing health compelling him to retire from active pursuits
Four children survive him: Wm. W. Elliot, of Corsicana, Adele, Stewart, and Ada. He was a member of the Masonic and I.O.O.F. fraternities.
His speech at the New Orleans Exposition attracted wide and favorable attention to Texas.
He was one of the organizers of the Texas Press Association, and was a noteworthy figure in Texas journalism.
(Source: Year Book for Texas, Caldwell Walton Revines, Gammel Book Co. (1902)
John Elliott's maternal grandfather, Jean-Simon Chaudron (1758-1846), came from France to Philadelphia, ultimately settling in Mobile, Alabama, where he died. He was a silversmith, and famous as a poet and orator in his day, but is remembered more for his fine coin silver work today. He delivered a notable "Funeral Oration" on President George Washington in Philadelphia on Jan. 1, 1800.
He was also one of the founders of the Vine & Olive Colony at Demopolis, Alabama, upriver from Mobile. The ill-fated venture sought to settle Bonapartist refugees in an enclave of commercial productivity to benefit the ruined exiled noblemen but which ultimately was a dismal failure.
A first cousin of John Felix Elliott was Paul Chaudron (1819-1859), the husband of Adelaide de Vendel Chaudron (1817-1898), author of the famous Chaudron's Speller and other reading lesson books widely known in the Antebellum America.
John Felix Elliott married first, in 1859 in Mobile, to Miss Frank Armstrong Crawford, the daughter of Judge Robert Leighton Crawford of Mobile. The first marriage was annulled and Frank Crawford Elliott later went on to marry her grandmother's first cousin, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, 45 years her senior.
John F. Elliott married his second wife Alice Pettibone on 23 May 1866 in Monroe County, Alabama, where they resided twenty years.
After her death, John Felix Elliott moved to Texas.
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ELLIOT, John F. Col.
Col. John F. Elliot died at his home, 93 Cadiz Street, Dallas, Texas, at 9:55 o'clock, Saturday night, February 3, 1901, after an illness of eighteen months duration. He was born in Mobile, Ala., July 14, 1835; was a graduate of Spring Hill College; served as an employee of a banking firm for several years; enlisted in the Confederate army as a volunteer in the first company organized in New Orleans (that of Captain Charles Drew, the first Confederate officer killed in the war); served first at Pensacola, Florida, and later (under Magruder) in Virginia; was Lieutenant of heavy artillery at the siege of Vicksburg; engaged in business at New Orleans after the war; married in 1866, at Claiborne, La., Miss Alice Pettibone, who died in 1888; was on the editorial staff of the Philadelphia (Pa.) Press for several years; moved to Galveston in 1874, and in 1878 to Dallas, where he acquired an interest in and became editor of the Dallas Daily Herald; was Commissioner-in-Chief from Texas to the New Orleans Exposition in 1884; moved to Washington City in 1885, on the Dallas Daily Herald being absorbed by the Dallas Morning News, and remained there two years, during which time he married Miss Ada Stewart, who died in February, 1892, leaving him two children; returned to Dallas and engaged in the land and loan business until 1894, when he purchased the Dallas Times-Herald, of which he continued editor until the fall of 1899, when he sold the paper, failing health compelling him to retire from active pursuits
Four children survive him: Wm. W. Elliot, of Corsicana, Adele, Stewart, and Ada. He was a member of the Masonic and I.O.O.F. fraternities.
His speech at the New Orleans Exposition attracted wide and favorable attention to Texas.
He was one of the organizers of the Texas Press Association, and was a noteworthy figure in Texas journalism.
(Source: Year Book for Texas, Caldwell Walton Revines, Gammel Book Co. (1902)
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