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DR. J. C. ELLSTON, veterinary surgeon, post-office Carthage, was born at Navarre, Stark, county, Ohio, Jan. 17, 1850. His father was a heavy horse dealer, and for many years bought horses in the state of Ohio for the Eastern markets; was also owner of some fine blooded animals, trotters and runners. Our subject early in life acquired a knowledge of that noblest of man’s servants, the horse, and soon developed an almost extraordinary genius in the management of vicious animals. At the age of eighteen he engaged with the veterinary surgeon, Dr. George O. Harlan, of Fremont, Ohio, in the study of veterinary science, taking a thorough course of anatomical lectures; also read and took a course of lectures under the tutorage of Dr. Marshal, of the Philadelphia, Penn., Veterinary Institute. Traveled three years in Ohio, Michigan, and Texas, training and treating horses. Kept a training, sale, livery, and treating stable at Will’s Point, Texas, which he sold out in 1881, when he became a citizen of Jasper county, Mo., and located at Carthage, where he engaged in the practice of his profession. Treats all diseases of the horse and has met with almost unparalleled success. Also has remarkable success in the training and management of vicious animals. Will guarantee to break and make perfectly tractable the worst and most unmanagable, vicious, or baulky horse, by a system peculiarly his own. Will not throw or injure the animal. Will be found accommodating and pleasant in his intercourse and gentlemanly in his deportment. The only man truly up in veterinary science in the county, and properly should receive the patronage and support of the people.