Artist: Julian Story; Oil on canvas
Charles Manly Ellis was born in Elkton, Maryland on December
13, 1838. He attended the University of
Pennsylvania and graduated with an MD in 1861. Following that, he settled in
practice in Elkton, where he also served as a bank official.
During the Civil War, Dr. Ellis served as assistant surgeon
of the Sixth Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, Rush’s Lancers. He was taken
prisoner and his devoted attention to the wounded soldiers of the Confederate
Army, which won for him the esteem of the South. In 1863, Dr. Ellis resigned and returned to
Elkton to take up practice.
In June of 1910, at the request of Dr. William Osler, Dr. Ellis made a gift of $18,000 to the Faculty, which is the equivalent of $4.3 million today.
He was a member of the American Medical Association a member
and former president of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland President
Medical and Chirurgical Faculty from 1897 to 1898. Dr. Ellis was also a
president of the Cecil County Medical Society, a director of the Union Hospital
of Cecil County and, until his health failed, a local surgeon of the
Pennsylvania Railroad.
The painting was given at a dinner on March 14, celebrating 50 years since his graduation from medical school.
Dr. Ellis died in Johns Hopkins Hospital on June 3, 1911, several weeks after an operation for appendicitis, at age 73.
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