Knute Ivarsen ELLINGBOE

1876 - 1960  (84 years)

• Name	Knute Ivarsen ELLINGBOE
  Birth	2 Feb 1876	Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway
  Gender	Male
  Minnesota Death Certificate	1960-MN-015883
  Death	4 Aug 1960	Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota
  Burial	6 Aug 1960	Oaklawn Cemetery, Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota
  	buried section F 212 5
  Notes	Born on Ellingbø Bøkko 33/3 according to Trudy. Came to the U.S. in 1896, coming first to Maynard. Worked first for the Great Northern Railroad. In the 1900 census, Knudt, 24, and his brother (apparently) Ole, 22, are single men boarding with a family in Sacred Heart, Renville County, Minnesota. Knudt “Elingoe” is shown as having been born in Norway in February of 1876 and having come to the U. S. in 1896. His occupation is saloon keeper. At this point, he is working for his uncle’s saloon in Granite Falls. He later bought out his uncle and was the sole owner until 1903 when he sold the saloon/hotel in Sacred Heart and “engaged in general merchandise. The venture was unfortunate.” He went back to Granite Falls and ran a saloon. In the 1905 state census, Knut, Clara, and Brunelle are living on Baldwin Street in Granite Falls. Knut is a saloon keeper. They had lived in Granite Falls for a year-and-a-half. He moved to Milaca in 1905. In the 1910 census, Knute and his family live in Milaca where Knute is the manager of a hardware store. The family consists of Knute I., 34, Clara A., 24, Brunelle M., 5, Harvey I or Q., 3, and Christine C., 1. Knute and Clara had been married for 7 years and these three children are the only ones Clara had had. Knute is shown as having come to the U.S. in 1880. This was the Ellingboe Hardware Company which he managed until 1912 when he and a partner bought the Milaca State Bank. He bought out that partner in 1919. Knute registered for the draft on September 12, 1918, in Princeton. His occupation is “banker” for the Milaca State Bank. His nearest relative is his wife Clara Ann. Knute is described as being of medium height and build with blue eyes and brown hair. He was a naturalized citizen. Knute applied for his first passport in August of 1919 in Minneapolis. He intended to visit Norway to “visit aged parents.” This six-week trip is mentioned in the October 23, 1919, edition of the Princeton Union. A Knute Ellingboe is listed in the 1920 and 1921 Minneapolis city directories at 2834 Chicago Avenue. He is listed in “The Valdris Book”, a history of the Valdris Samband published in 1920 (available on Google Books), as Knudt Ellingboe of Milaca. He was a member of the Samband between 1905 and 1916. In the 1920 census, Knute is shown as a bank president in Milaca. Although he is married, there is no wife listed as living with him. By that time, his wife Clara and their two children (Brunelle, 15, and Margaret, 10) are living in Minneapolis with Clara’s mother, Mary Austin. Knute applied for a second passport on May 28, 1921, in Milaca. He was described as 45 years old, 5 feet, 9 inches tall, with blue eyes and a “regular” forehead and “regular” nose with a “straight, firm” mouth and a “square” chin. His hair was dark brown and “turning grey.” He had a ruddy complexion with an “oval, broad” face. He had the distinguishing mark of a “small wart inside right eyebrow.” In this application, he states that he came to the U.S. aboard the Christiania on May 1, 1896, and that he had resided, uninterruptedly, in Milaca for 16 years between 1905 and 1921. He conceded that his first passport, issued in Minneapolis in August of 1919, was “used and cancelled in visiting Norway.” Knute also states in this application that he was naturalized as a citizen of the U.S. in Granite Falls. He intends to leave from New York, aboard the Bergensfjord, on June 17, 1921. On June 19, 1923, Knute served as the identifier for August Stromberg’s application for a U.S. passport. Knute, claiming that he resided in Milaca, the home of the applicant, said that he had known August Stromberg for 18 years and vouched for his identity. In the 1930 census, Knute and his family lived on 2nd Avenue in Milaca where he was a loan agent for a trust company. The family lived in a house that Knute owned and that was valued at $5500. The family consisted of Knut, 53, Thora, 40, Robert T., 6, and Bertha E., 5. Thora was first married at age 32. Knute is shown as having come to the U. S. in 1905. In the 1940 census, Knute and Thora and their two children lived in Milaca in the same house they had lived in in 1935. Thora’s father lives with them. Knute was an agent for an investors syndicate and earned $1025 in 1939. Knute had an eighth-grade education, Thora had had two years of college. In the 1945 Faribault city directory, which includes Northfield, Knute and Thora live at 806 Forest Ave. Knute is a salesman. In the 1948, 1950, and 1953 Rice County directories, Knute and Thora live at 915 W. 2nd Street in Northfield. Knute was a janitor at St. Olaf College. In the 1950 census, Knute and Thora live at 915 W. 2nd Street in Northfield. He works as a custodian at an art barn at a college. Their household also includes Thora’s father and 8 lodgers, all of whom are probably students at St. Olaf. Those eight students, all either 19 or 20 years old, are: George K Lindberg, David Huseth, Robert Wrede, Owen Hawley, William Kopperud, Robert Hauge, Donald Maland, and Donald Myrald. In the 1957 Faribault city directory, which includes Northfield, Knute and Thora were still at 915 W 2nd. Knute was an office worker for Edwin L Parson. Knut’s last trip to Norway was in the summer of 1954. He arrived back in New York on 19 Jul 1954 from Oslo. An earlier trip was in 1919, right after the war. He arrived back in New York on October 7, 1919, aboard the S.S. Vangerfjord which had departed Kristiania on September 27, 1919. He went again in 1922. He arrived back in New York on September 9, 1921, aboard the S.S. Aquitania which had departed from Southampton on September 3rd. An obit in the Faribault newspaper, via the Dalby Database: Funeral services for Knute Ellingboe, 84, who died Thursday evening in Northfield Memorial hospital, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at St. John's Lutheran church. Rev. B. R. Biorn will officiate and burial will be in Oaklawn cemetery. Friends may call at the Anderson Funeral Home Sunday afternoon and evening, and at the church one hour before the church service. An obit in the Northfield News, via the Dalby Database: Ellingboe Knute Northfield News Aug/1960 Knute Ellingboe, 84, died -unexpectedly Thursday evening, Aug. 4, I960, at Northfield Hospital after a four-day illness. The death was due to a heart attack. The final illness occurred just as Mr. Ellingboe’s son, the Rev. Theodore Ellingboe, was to leave on his return trip to the mission field in Cameroon, Africa, after spending his furlough in the United States. Pastor Ellingboe had planned to leave Northfield on Friday, he and his family to fly from New York on August 12. He will now leave on Tuesday, the day after the funeral of his father. The funeral was held Monday afternoon, Aug. 8, at St. Johns Lutheran church where Mr. Ellingboe was a member. The Rev. Boral R. Biorn conducted the service. The Anderson Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Burial was in Oaklawn cemetery, with James O. Caulfield, E. L. Parson, Rudolph Zanmiller, H. B. Jacobson, Adolph Olson and Ivar Brujord as pallbearers. Mr. Ellingboe was born February 2, I876, in Valdres, Norway, the son of Ivar and Berit Ellingboe. He came to the United States in 1896, settling first at Granite Falls where he was engaged in farming. Later he became an employe of the Milaca Hardware company, then cashier of the Milaca State bank. For several years he was president of the bank. From 1930 till 1936, he managed farms that belong to a fraternal insurance group, the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He was employed by Investors Syndicate from 1936 until 1940. After coming to Northfield in 1940, he represented Lutheran Brotherhood. During World War II, he worked in shipyards at San Francisco, Calif. Later he was employed at St. Olaf College and as bookkeeper by the Dan Hansen Plumbing company. Recently he had been employed in the insurance and realty office of E. L. Parson. He is survived by his wife, the former Thora Larson of Brooklyn, N. Y. to whom he was married on July 10,1922, in Minneapolis; by one son, Theodore; one daughter, Miss Betty Ellingboe of Minneapolis; two grandchildren; a brother, Ivar, who lives in Norway; two sisters, Mrs. Bertha Steile of Minneapolis and Ambjor of Norway. Miss Betty ElIingboe, who was engaged in work for The American Lutheran Church in the Seattle, Wash. area when she learned of her fathers illness, arrive by plane Friday morning. (Note that this obit makes no mention of the children by his first wife.)
  Person ID	I9171	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	10 Mar 2024

  
  

  Father	Ivar Knutsson ELLINGBØ,   b. 8 Jul 1848, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway d. 14 Mar 1921, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Berit Olsdatter ELLINGBØ,   b. 3 Nov 1844, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway d. 2 Apr 1931, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	13 Jun 1872	Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway
  Family ID	F6882	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Clara Ann AUSTIN,   b. 24 Jan 1886, Wisconsin d. 27 Feb 1969, Hennepin County, Minnesota (Age 83 years)
  Marriage	30 Apr 1903	Renville County, Minnesota
  Divorce	Abt 1920
  Children	1. Brunelle Minnette ELLINGBOE,   b. 24 Aug 1904, Granite Falls, Minnesota d. 23 Nov 1970, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota (Age 66 years)   2. Harvey Iver ELLINGBOE,   b. 17 Jul 1906, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota d. 8 Aug 1948, Hennepin County, Minnesota (Age 42 years)   3. Gudrun Margaret (Chrystal) ELLINGBOE,   b. 24 Jul 1908, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota d. 20 Aug 1969, Los Angeles County, California (Age 61 years)
  Photos		Knute Ellingboe and first family Probably from about 1915. That's Brunelle, 11, Knute, 39, Crystal, 7, Clara, 29, and Harvey, 9.
  Family ID	F6886	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Jan 2010

  
  

  Family 2	Thora B LARSEN,   b. 18 Nov 1889, New York d. 16 Jun 1978, Multnomah County, Oregon (Age 88 years)
  Marriage	9 Jul 1922	Hennepin County, Minnesota
  Children	1. Robert Theodore (Ted) ELLINGBOE,   b. 22 Apr 1923, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota d. 13 Dec 1997, Clackamas County, Oregon (Age 74 years)   2. Bertha Elizabeth (Betty) ELLINGBOE,   b. 20 Oct 1924, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota d. 28 Mar 1979, Hennepin County, Minnesota (Age 54 years)
  Family ID	F6883	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Apr 2010