The life of Fred Lincoln Ellsworth, farmer and stock raiser of Sugar Creek township, Walworth county, has been such as to elicit just praise from those who know him best, owing to the fact that he has always been true to the trusts reposed in him and has been upright in his dealings with his fellow men, at the same time lending his support to the advancement of any cause looking to the welfare of the community at large.
Mr. Ellsworth was born in Lafayette township, Walworth county November 19, 1860, the son of Stewart D. and Elizabeth (Ramey) Ellsworth.
Fred L. Ellsworth was reared on the home farm where he worked when a boy, and attended the public schools during the winter months, later the high school at Elkhorn. He has devoted his life to agricultural pursuits and has met with encouraging success all along the line, being now the owner of a very productive, well improved and well kept farm of two hundred and ten acres in Sugar Creek township, one and a half miles from Elkhorn. He makes a specialty of dairying and keeps about sixty cows, and no small part of his annual income is derived from this source.
Politically, Mr. Ellsworth is a Republican, but he is in no sense a public man.
On June 2, 1885, Mr. Ellsworth was united in marriage with Carrie Melina Cobb, who was born in Milwaukee, November 9, 1866, the daughter of William and Harriet (Hale) Cobb, the father a native of New York, born in 1827, and the mother’s birth occurred in Milwaukee county, Wisconsin. They were married in the latter place in 1859, and three children have been born to them, all of whom are living. Mr. Cobb has spent his life engaged in farming. He has made several trips to California. Politically, he is a Republican and he was clerk of the school district for about thirty years. He now lives at Hales Corners, Milwaukee county, Wisconsin. His wife died October 9, 1883. Her father, Seneca Hale, was a pioneer of ^Milwaukee county. He was born on October 5, 181 1, in New York.
To Fred L. Ellsworth and wife seven children have been born, namely: Cassius Melvin, born July 2, 1886; Harriet Aileen, born February 11, 1889; Myrtle Belle, born March 26, 1892; Glen Lincoln, born May 27, 1895, died September 2, 1902; Gladys Melvina, born February 5, 1901 ; Eugene Grant, born January 26, 1903, died May 22d of the same year; Rosina Elizabeth, born August 16, 1904.
From: Beckwith, A.C. (1912). History of Walworth County Wisconsin