The Adams County Community Foundation is pleased to announce the establishment of the Ellis E. and Virginia Mae Dorton Scholarship Fund, created by their daughter, Patricia Dorton Whittaker, in memory of her parents.

Ellis and Mae Dorton moved to Adams County in August 1950 when Ellis purchased the International Harvester dealership from Roy and Glenn Mosier. Prior to that, he served as Sales Supervisor for International Harvester in the Cincinnati area, overseeing a large territory that included southern Ohio (from Brown County to Lawrence County), eastern Kentucky, and the western counties of West Virginia.

Both Ellis and Mae were raised on farms in Highland County and always felt a strong connection to the land. In the early 1930s, Ellis attended The Ohio State University, majoring in

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