William Alfred ELLINGBOE

1886 - 1965  (78 years)

• Name	William Alfred ELLINGBOE
  Birth	4 Oct 1886	Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota
  	some sources erroneously say 4 Oct 1884, it’s 1886 in his confirmation record
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	21 Nov 1886	Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota
  	St. John’s
  Confirmation	19 May 1901	St. John’s Lutheran Church, Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota
  Death	13 Feb 1965	Michigan
  Burial	Evergreen Cemetery, Crystal Falls, Iron County, Michigan
  Notes	SSDI shows his birthdate as October 4, 1886. His draft card says 1884 as his birth year. In the 1902 Faribault city directory, which includes Northfield, he is a clerk for H J Vollmer & Co. He boards at 614 St. Olaf Avenue. The 1911 Faribault city directory, which includes Northfield, notes that William A Ellingboe had moved to Bryant, South Dakota. Retired from Elthun and Ellingboe Bros. in 1915. He left the Eltun & Ellingboe Brothers firm in February of 1915 as reported in the Northfield News. The 1915 Faribault city directory, which includes Northfield, includes William living at 107 S Division. Registered for the draft on September 12, 1918, in Rusk County, Wisconsin, where he lived in Ladysmith with his family. He was employed by the Ladysmith Chair Company. He was described as of medium height and build with blue eyes and brown hair. In the 1920 census, he and his family lived in Ladysmith. He was a traveling salesman for a chair factory. Carried on the newswires for the Thursday, April 30, 1925, editions was this article: Ladysmith, Wis. -- Frantic with fright after she shot the man who attempted her honor, Mrs. Rollie Crandall, 35, escaped his bloody clutches, leaped into the family car, and sped 45 miles through the night at breakneck speed, collapsing in a restaurant at Cameron junction. Details of the affair were learned today when Mrs. Crandall, identified in a hospital at Rice Lake, was brought back to her home here. “Bill” Ellingboe, 25, an undertaker, was the victim of her defense. A bullet from a 38.55 calibre hunting rifle entered his jaw and came out at his temple. Physicians say he will recover. Mrs. Crandall was lying on the bed crooning her two small children to sleep Tuesday night. Her husband, garage and livery owner, had driven to Courderoy Lake. The house was open. At about 9 o’clock, according to police, Ellingboe, who is married and has two children, entered the bed chamber. He made advances and Mrs. Crandall grabbed her husband’s rifle. In the scuffle which followed, Ellingboe was shot. Mrs. Crandall fled downstairs, shouting that she was going for her husband. Ellingboe staggered after her. She leaped into the family sedan, hatless and coatless, and drove away. Ellingboe was found in the yard by Fred Crandall, brother-in-law of the woman. He took Ellingboe home. Some time later, Mrs. Crandall staggered into a restaurant at Cameron Junction and collapsed. She was taken to a hospital at Rice Lake. At the hospital she was hysterical and not until late yesterday was she identified. Her husband was notified and came for her. Ellingboe was placed in the Sisters hospital here and will recover it was said today. Both principals in the affair were respected citizens. Fred Crandall said Ellingboe was intoxicated. County Attorney D. H. Huckhart was not decided whether charges will be brought against either. A different article on the incident noted, “Ellingboe … was said to have admitted to Ladysmith authorities that he had persistently annoyed Mrs. Crandall for more than a year and that he last night entered her apartment and attempted assault.” The Ellingboe and Crandall families had been friendly for a long time and much of Crandall’s auto livery business came through funeral work which he secured from Ellingboe. Ellingboe claimed that he had called at the Crandall home and when no one answered the door he entered and was engaged in conversation with Mrs. Crandall when the shot was fired by her. In the 1930 census he and his family lived in Crystal Falls, Michigan, where he was an undertaker at a furniture and undertaking store. Both boys were single and living at home. In the 1940 census, he and Sadie and Harold lived in Crystal Falls where William worked for an “undertaking establishment.” They lived in a rental residence, the same house in which they had lived in 1935. William earned $1500 in 1939. He was a high-school graduate, Sadie had an eighth-grade education. In his World War II draft registration, he gave as the person who would always know his address his son Lloyd. William’s employer was L. A. Henry of Crystal Falls. In the 1950 census, he and his wife Ellen live in Crystal Falls. He is 63 and works as a mortician in a funeral parlor.
  Person ID	I2686	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	22 Oct 2024

  
  

  Father	John Jonsson ELLINGBØE,   b. 30 Oct 1849, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway d. 20 Apr 1922, Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Ambjørg (Emma) Olsdotter STRØND (STRAND),   b. 24 May 1856, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway d. 2 Jul 1942, Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	2 Mar 1874	Kenyon, Goodhue County, Minnesota
  Family ID	F1686	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Sadie NELSON,   b. Jun 1882, Minnesota d. 13 Sep 1947, Michigan (Age 65 years)
  Marriage	2 Jan 1907	Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota
  Children	1. Lloyd Wilhelm ELLINGBOE,   b. 21 Jul 1908, Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota d. 20 Nov 1988, Crystal Falls, Iron County, Michigan (Age 80 years)   2. Harold Marchian ELLINGBOE,   b. 28 Sep 1911, Goodhue County, Minnesota d. 26 Jan 1960, Olmsted County, Minnesota (Age 48 years)
  Family ID	F1896	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Sep 2015

  
  

  Family 2	Nellie DOUCETTE,   b. Abt 1890, Crystal Falls, Iron County, Michigan d. 11 Aug 1956, Crystal Falls, Iron County, Michigan (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	18 Apr 1949	Crystal Falls, Iron County, Michigan
  Family ID	F12960	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Feb 2015