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Roberts (ELLIS HENRY an American)

ELLIS HENRY, an American journalist and financier, born in Utica, N. Y., in 1827. He graduated from Yale University in 1850, and in the following year became editor and proprietor of the Utica Morning Herald. He was a member of the State Legislature in 1866, and was elected to Congress in 1871, serving until 1875. From 1889 to 1893 he was Assistant Treasurer of the United States, and Treasurer of the United States from 1897 to 1905. He wrote "Government Revenue" (1888); "New York, the Planting and Growth of the Empire State" (1887; 1904). He died in 1918.