From History of Walworth County Wisconsin by Albert Clayton Beckwith, Vol. II, 
publ. 1912, Page 1383-1384
 
STEWART D. ELLSWORTH.  We are, or at least should be, proud of the old 
pioneers and accord them the greatest esteem, for they blazed the way for 
succeeding generations and made possible our present prosperity and pleasant 
homes; but we of today are apt to forget the great sacrifices they made, the 
privations they had to face and the years of toil and suffering they endured 
in order that the wilderness might give way to fertile farms and populous 
cities.
 
One of this sterling band is Stewart D. ELLSWORTH, long a well known citizen 
of Lagrange township, Walworth county.  He was born in Otsego county, New 
York, on January 10, 1835, the son of Stukly S. and Nancy (FIELD) ELLSWORTH, 
both born in Otsego county, New York, the father on February 19, 1803, and the 
mother on August 3, 1805.  There they grew up and married and from there they 
came to Walworth county, Wisconsin, in 1845, when the subject was ten years 
old, and they settled in Lafayette township on one hundred and sixty acres of 
land which they improved and there spent the rest of their lives, the father 
dying in 1883, and the mother in October 1880.  They were the parents of four 
sons and two daughters, of whom Stewart D. of this sketch is the only one 
living.
 
Mr. ELLSWORTH of this review was reared on the home farm, which he helped 
develop from the wilderness, and he received such education as he could in the 
old log school houses of his day, and later attended the State University at 
Madison.  He took up farming for a livelihood and became the owner of two 
hundred acres of good land.  In 1904 he moved to Elkhorn, after a successful 
career as a general farmer and stock man, and there he purchased valuable 
property in which he still lives, enjoying the fruits of his earlier years of 
toil.  Politically, he is a Republican, but has not been a public man.
 
Mr. ELLSWORTH was married on January 1, 1858 to Elizabeth RAMEY, who was born 
in Stockbridge, Windsor county, Vermont, December 7, 1840, the daughter of 
Silas and Martha (SAWYER) RAMEY, the father born at Stockbridge, Vermont, on 
February 21, 1810, and the mother was born in New Hampshire on April 23, 
1810.  They came to Walworth county, Wisconsin in 1854 and settled in 
Lafayette township on a farm.  From there they moved to Iowa in 1869 and Mr. 
RAMEY's death occurred in that state in 1897, his wife surviving until 1900, 
reaching the advanced age of ninety years.  They were the parents of three 
sons and four daughters, of whom four are still living.  Mr. RAMEY was first a 
Whig, later a Republican.  He was a member of the Methodist church.
 
To Stewart D. ELLSWORTH and wife four sons and one daughter have been born, 
namely: Frank R., born February 20, 1859; Fred, born November 19, 1860; Zella 
E., born October 18, 1862; Silas Grant was born April 2, 1869; Louie E., born 
October 18, 1871; Harry, born August 8, 1877.
 
Submitted by Carol