Ellis, William Henry, 1864-1923
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Eliseo, Guillermo Enrique, 1864-1923
Ellis, Guillermo, 1864-1923
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found: Jacoby, Karl. The strange career of William Ellis, 2016:ECIP title page (Texas slave who became a Mexican millionaire) data view (African American; entrepreneur; after emancipation, Ellis reinvented himself as the wealthy Mexican Guillermo Eliseo; owner of a luxury apartment overlooking Central Park, a busy Wall Street office, and mines and haciendas in Mexico; he had begun life as a slave named William Ellis, born on a cotton plantation in southern Texas) galley (Guillermo Ellis; born June 15, 1864)
found: Texas handbook online, March 29, 2016(Ellis, William Henry; born June 15, 1864; died in Mexico City on September 24, 1923; influential African-American entrepreneur, stockbroker, and proponent of the African-American emigration movement of the 1890s and early 1900s; born in Victoria, Texas, on June 15, 1864, the son of recently-freed slaves, Charles and Margaret Nelson Ellis, a fact that Ellis later hid from the public; worked as a ranch hand and then as an assistant to a leather dealer; began trading cattle in the Victoria area; worked as a customs inspector in Brownsville, Texas; attended college in Nashville and took business courses in New York; because he was fluent in several languages, including Spanish, he began dealing cotton across the Texas-Mexico border and began raising cattle in Mexico in 1888; his light skin led people to believe he was of Spanish, Mexican, or Cuban descent and eventually he began to alter his parents' names, ethnicities, and birthplaces when asked and claimed Mexican or Cuban descent instead of his slave heritage; created a Hispanic identity "Guillermo Enrique Eliseo" by translating his name into Spanish; involved himself in African-American politics, particularly in Texas)
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2016-03-29: new
2016-08-12: revised
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