Bertha Elizabeth (Betty) ELLINGBOE

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: DC-42938
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1979-MN-007158

Notes:

In the 1945 Faribault city directory, which includes Northfield, Betty E Ellingboe is a student living with her parents at 806 Forest Ave.

St. Olaf, ‘47, majors in art and English.

In 1951, she lived with her brother Theodore in Elizabeth, New Jersey. She was an office secretary.

By April of 1952, she was a teacher at the Elm Street School in Bridgewater, New Jersey, after have had a year at the State Teachers College in Newark.

The entry for her in the 1955 Elizabeth, New Jersey, city directory said “rem to Minnesota.”

An article in the September 16, 1961, edition of the Racine Journal Times discusses her as Miss Betty Ellingboe of the American Lutheran Church parish education staff giving a Sunday School teachers workshop as well as a “chalk talk.”

Her obituary was in the Northfield News on April 5, 1979.

The Ellingboe/Mashek family tree has Elizabeth marrying Palmer R Siquland. However, her death certificate is for Bertha Elizabeth Ellingboe. According to the Dalby database, Betty’s grandmother (Thora’s mother) was Bertha Siquland Larson.

The Northfield gravestone or cemetery information is for Bertha Elizabeth Ellingboe, spouse of Palmer G., but she was not buried there. Find A Grave has a picture of a gravestone for her, with birth and death dates, that is from Oaklawn Cemetery in Northfield. Find A Grave also says that her spouse was Palmer G Ellingboe.



An article in the Star on October 12, 1963, mentions that she had written a book, “The Little Man from Jericho”, apparently a children’s book about the story of Zachaeus. She worked as an audio-visual consultant to the Parish Education department of the American Lutheran Church.

In December of 1973, she was appointed manager of the films department at Augsburg Publishing house.

The “chalk-talk” TV series she had was called “Through the Porthole.”

Buried:
as Bertha Eliz. Ellingboe

Family/Spouse: Palmer Gilman WERMAGER. Palmer was born on 4 Oct 1907 in Norman County, Minnesota; died on 2 Dec 1986 in Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried in Oaklawn Cemetery, Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1960-MN-015883

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.)

Buried:
buried section F 212 5

Knute married Thora B LARSEN on 9 Jul 1922 in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Thora (daughter of Theodore LARSEN and Bertha SIQULAND) was born on 18 Nov 1889 in New York; died on 16 Jun 1978 in Multnomah County, Oregon; was buried on 24 Jun 1978 in Oaklawn Cemetery, Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Oregon Death Certificate: 78-10062

Notes:

Larson on her marriage record, at least according to the MOMS index.

Born and raised in Brooklyn. She was a New York City school teacher in the 1910 and 1920 censuses. She was still living in Brooklyn with her parents in the 1920 census.

Birth:
date from SSDI

Buried:
buried section F 212 4

Notes:

Born on Eltun 13/3, Øye, Vang in Valdres. Died on Bøkko. Born on or resided on Ellingbø Bøkko 33/3 according to Trudy.

In the 1865 census, he was living with his mother, father, and siblings on Eltun farm in Øie subparish, Vang.

In the 1886 land register he is shown as Iver Knudsen, owner of 33/3 Bakkene (old 9-19a1) of Ellingbø nordre.

Living on Ellingbø nordre at the time of the 1900 Norwegian census as Gaardbruger selveier postbefordrer (which may mean farmer who owns his own farm from his grandparents). Living with him are his wife Berit Olsdatter, b. 1844, Gaardmandskone, intet sær erhverv (which may mean something like no other livelihood); their four children: Gjertrud, b. 1874, Gaardsmansdatter, Meierske; Berit, b. 1881, Gaardsmandsdatter, lærling som syerske (which may mean apprentice seamstress); Ivar, b. 1886, Gaardsmandssøn; and Ambjorg, b. 1892, Gaardsmandsdatter. Also living with the family is Gjertrud’s son, Olav Olsson (Sønderol), born 23 Feb 1899. The census noted that this farm did not have any outbuildings. The farm had cattle, poultry, and grain/potatoes but did not have a beehive, an orchard, or a vegetable garden.

In the 1910 Norwegian census, he is Ivar Knutsen Ellingbø, “fader” on the Bakkene 33/3 farm in Vang. The farm is owned by his son, Ivar Ivarsen. The household consisted of Ivar Ivarsen, Ambjørg Ivarsdatter, Maren Ivarsdatter (all three unmarried) and Ivar Knutsen and his wife Berit.

Ivar married Berit Olsdatter ELLINGBØ on 13 Jun 1872 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. Berit (daughter of Ole Evenson ELLINGBØ and Maren Wilhelmsdatter BAGGETUN) was born on 3 Nov 1844 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; died on 2 Apr 1931 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway; was buried in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 20 Nov 1844, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Unmarried and living with her parents and siblings on Ellingbø søndre 22 in the 1865 Norwegian census.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Ship’s Carpenter

Notes:

Emigrated in 1888. In the 1900 census, his birthdate is shown as October, 1862.

He was a 76 year-old widower living with Knute and Thora in Milaca in the 1940 census. He had lived in Brooklyn in 1935.

Lived in the sunroom of Knute and Thora’s house in Northfield. Shown as living with Knute and Thora in the 1950 census.

Theodore married Bertha SIQULAND about 1888. Bertha was born about 1864 in Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Emigrated in 1888. In the 1900 census, her birthdate is shown as February, 1861.

She is not the Bertha Larsen of 1945-MN-013442.

Notes:

Born in Eltun 13/3, nedre. Resided in Bøkkadn 33/3 av Ellingbø. Died as Knut Iversen Ellingbö.

Han var først på Eltun 13/1 1851-1863. Han flyttet til Ellingbø 33/2 Bøkko i 1868. På Eltun var han postkar. Han fikk Eltun da han giftet seg, men solgte gården til Ivar I Uvdal (1862-1909) i 1863. De sies at det var Embrik og Helge Ellingbø som kjøpte Bøkkadn, som da nettopp var fradelt med eget nr. av Trond Ellingbø og solgte halvparten videre til Knut. og at Jond Endresen Ellingbø og Torstein, sønnen til Helge fikk overta hver sin halvpart. Men i opptegnelsene etter Yngve Ellingbø står det at Knut kjøpte gården av Trond I Ellingbø, fordi buskapen deres var drept av slagbjørn og at de derfor dro til USA.

Det er riktig at bjørnen herjet ganske mye på den tiden, og det __ kan hende at det var derfor de dro til USA, men i statsarkivet på Hamar er det dokumenter som __kan fortelle følgende:

Trond I Uvdal (se faren Ivar Uvdal) overtok i 1850. De hadde 8 barn, og dro til USA med alle barn som levde i 1862. De tok også med seg barna til datteren Velgjerd (Hun hadde to barn utenfor ekteskap). Gården ble så delt i 3 underbruk, 2 under husmannsplasser under Baggetun og ett under nordigarden av Ellingbø 33/1.

Livaursfolket Øystein og Ambjørg bodde her. Med skylddeling 7.10.1867 og 25.4.1868 ble gården delt i fire parter:
grn.: 33/3 Bøkkadn (Bøkko)
gnr.: 33/4 Fagerli (senere hotellet)
grn.: 31/1 Haugadn (som Bøland forpakter, leier eller bruker)
og grn.: 31/2 Grindaheim (nedlagt hotell på nedsiden av riksveien, Men som har gitt navnet til hotellet på Fagerlid). Hovedparten etter delingen var Bokko.

Knut __kan derfor neppe ha kjøpt gården direkte av eierne som ble rammet av bjørn. Det er heler ikke funnet noen dokumetasjon på at hele buskapen ble drept av bjørn, men i en protokoll fra 1860 heter det at to kviger og en kalv skal v?re drept av "biørn på seteren Grov ved Helin den sommeren."

Translated:

He was first at Eltun 13/1 1851-1863. He moved to Ellingbø 33/2 Bøkko in 1868. At Eltun he was a postman. He got Eltun when he got married, but sold the farm to Ivar I Uvdal (1862-1909) in 1863. They say that it was Embrik and Helge Ellingbø who bought Bøkkadn, who was then just separated with his own number by Trond Ellingbø and sold half on to Knut. and that Jond Endresen Ellingbø and Torstein, Helge's son, each took over half. But in the records after Yngve Ellingbø it says that Knut bought the farm from Trond I Ellingbø, because their livestock was killed by a bear and that they therefore went to the USA.

It is true that the bear ravaged quite a lot at that time, and that may be why they went to the USA, but in the state archives at Hamar there are documents that can tell the following:

Trond I Uvdal (see father Ivar Uvdal) took over in 1850. They had 8 children, and went to the United States with all the children who lived in 1862. They also took the children of their daughter Velgjerd (She had two children out of wedlock). The farm was then divided into 3 sub-farms, 2 under homesteads under Baggetun and one under the northern farm of Ellingbø 33/1.

The people of Øystein and Ambjørg lived here. With divisions dated 7.10.1867 and 25.4.1868 the farm was divided into four parts:
grn .: 33/3 Bøkkadn (Bøkko)
gnr .: 33/4 Fagerli (later the hotel)
grn .: 31/1 Haugadn (which Bøland leases, rents or uses)
and grn .: 31/2 Grindaheim (closed hotel on the lower side of the national road, But which has given the name to the hotel on Fagerlid). The majority after the division was Bokko.

Knut cannot therefore have bought the farm directly from the owners who were affected by bears. No documentation has been found that the whole herd was killed by a bear, but a protocol from 1860 states that two heifers and a calf were killed by "bears on the farm Grov by Helin that summer."

Died:
as Knut Iversen Ellingbö

Knud married Gjartrud Thomasdatter ELTUN in 1845. Gjartrud (daughter of Thomas Torgeirson ELTUN and Sigrid Ivarsdatter KJERSTEIN) was born about 1826 in Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Born in Eltun 13/1. Resided in Bøkkadn 33/3 av Ellingbø.

Knut og Gjartrud hadde barna:
Ivar (f.og d 1845),
Ivar (1848-1921),
Thomas (1851-1852),
Anne (1863-),
Thomas (1865-) til USA 1882.

I 1865 hadde de også en pleiedatter, søsterdatteren til Knut Sigrid Gudbrandsdtr Steinde eller Lundseiga, Hun var gi ft med Torstein O Haugen (Krøsseikra) de dro til USA i 1879.

Translated: In 1865 they also had a foster daughter, the niece of Knut Sigrid Gudbrandsdtr Steinde or Lundseiga, She was married to Torstein O Haugen (Krøsseikra) they went to the USA in 1879.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 24 Sep 1806, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway

Notes:

Married his first cousin.

Listed right after Ole Thronsen (#12055) in the Vang churchbook birth records.

Also referred to as Ola Eivindson. He was Ole Evenson on the parish birth record for his daughter Berith.

Born in Ellingbø 34/2 sygarden. Resided in Ellingbø 34/2 sygarden.

In the 1865 census, he was Gaardbruger Selveier of Ellingbø søndre 22.

Ola og Maren var søskenbarn og måtte ha spesiell tillatelse for å gifte seg. Ola og Maren hadde også følgende barn: Vilhjølm Ellingbø (1839-1913) til USA i 1866. Lars var broren til Anne O Kvåle som giftet seg med Bøye, bror til Ingeleiv. De hadd e livaurstgua på Hammerstad ei tid, men flyttet den til Kattevold pga en strid med grb. Eivind Ellingbø. Ingeleiv B Hammerstad og mannen Knut K Bøe arvet stuen og bodde der før de flyttet til Flaten.

Birth:
Ellingbø 34/2 Sygarden

Baptism:
28 Sep 1806 according to his death record

Ole married Maren Wilhelmsdatter BAGGETUN in 1831 in Norway. Maren (daughter of Vilhjølm Vilhjølmsen BAGGETUN and Ambjørg Larsdatter WANGENSTEEN) was born in 1810 in Norway; died in 1898 in Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Born in Baggetun 35/. Resided in Ellingbø 34/2 sygarden.

Also referred to as Maren Vilhjølmson. She was Maren Wilhelmsdatter on the parish birth record for her daughter Berith.

She married her first cousin.