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John Jonsson ELLINGBØE

Male 1849 - 1922  (72 years)


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  • Name John Jonsson ELLINGBØE 
    Birth 30 Oct 1849  Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Minnesota Death Certificate 1922-MN-012095 
    Occupation Farmer, postal worker 
    Death 20 Apr 1922  Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Oaklawn Cemetery, Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • 21 ND 32 G 24
    Notes 
    • Jon married his first cousin.

      From the emigration list - State Archives, Hamar, Norway: 9 March 1850 John Østensen Ellingbøe 36 Margretta Østensd. 31Ambjor 11Ingeborg 7 Ingerid 4* John 1/2 Most information from Vang A. Some information provided by John W. Ellingboe from the emigration list - State Archives, Hamar, Norway: 9 March 1850.

      Gravestone says, quite incorrectly, that he died April 26th. Buried as John Johnson Ellingboe III.

      Going by the name of J. J. Austinson and farming in Dane County at the time of the 1880 census. Sons John and Martin are shown as born in Wisconsin but son Ole is shown as born in Minnesota.

      In the 1900 census, he is John J. Austinson (b. Oct 1850) with wife Emma (b. June 1855), son Martin (b. Mar 1878), daughter Bertha M. (b. Nov 1882), son William A. (b. Dec 1886), daughter Josephine O. (b. Feb 1889), Adolph A. (b. July 1892), and son Thomas A. (b. July 1894 or 1895). Ole and Bertha Strand live next door and son John M. Ellingboe lives on the other side of Ole and Bertha.

      In the 1902 Faribault city directory, which includes Northfield, he was a mail carrier on Route #2. He lived at 614 St. Olaf Avenue.

      He is John Ellingboe in the 1905 state census. He and his family live at 614 St. Olaf Avenue in Northfield. John is a mail carrier.

      Listed as J. J. Austinson in the 1910 census. He is 61, is living at 614 St. Olaf Avenue, and has been married to Emma for 33 years. Emma is 53 and is shown as having had 11 children, 9 still living. Adolph is 17, Thomas is 15, and Julius is 8. J. J.’s next door neighbor is Ole Rolvaag.

      In the 1911 Faribault city directory, which includes Northfield, he is Jno J Ellingboe, driver for Eltun & Ellingboe Bros. He lives at 614 St. Olaf.

      In the 1915 Faribault city directory, which includes Northfield, he is Jno J Ellingboe, clerk for Eltun & Ellingboe Bros. He lives at 319 Plum.

      He is John Ellingboe in the 1920 census, living with his wife Emma and sister-in-law Bertha Erickson, at 319 Plum Street in Northfield. John is a salesman in a clothing store. The 1921 city directory says he is a janitor with the Ellingboe Dry Goods Company.

      From a 1981 book on Rice County Families, via the Dalby Database:

      John J. and Emma Ellingboe.  John J. Ellingboe, III, married Ambjor “Emma” Strand about 1874.  John was the son of John O. Ellingboe, II, and Margrete Klokergaarden, natives of Norway who immigrated to near Stoughton, WI, about 1849.  Emma was the daughter of Ole and Berit Strand.  Ole and Berit immigrated from Vang, Norway, when Emma was 8 years old, about 1865, to near Stoughton, WI.  John J. and Emma farmed in Wisconsin about 10 years before moving to Northfield.  At Northfield, John J. was a farmer, in addition he was a postal carrier for 20 years and worked in his son’s clothing store.  John J. and Emma had a family of:  John Morris, married Elese Hendrickson and 2nd wife, Thea Berg; Ole married Esther Elton; Martin married Lillian Harmer; Bertha married Hans Gunderson; William married Sadie Nelson and 2nd wife, Nellie Ducette; Josie married Olavus Anfinson; Osten “Adolph” married Elizabeth Rech; Thomas married Grace Thorson; and Joel married Madge Hamblin.  John M. first went into business as partner in Elton-Ellingboe general store in McGloughery Block, 4th and Division Street, Northfield.  Later, John M. and Martin started a men’s clothing store, Ellingboe Clothing located at 19 Bridge Square, which they operated for 41 years with the help of Joel and Thomas, until they sold the business to Leutholds.  About the same time, 1911, Adolph managed a men’s clothing store at Cannon Falls, MN, for John M.  Ole and William worked at Lee Furniture, in Northfield, in the middle of the McGloughery block.  Ole later moved to Ladysmith, WI, where he had his furniture and funeral home.  William had a mortuary in Crystal Falls, MI.  Bertha married Hans Gunderson in 1904.  Hans was employed many years at the Northfield Independent.  Josie worked as a clerk in the general store, Elthon-Ellinboe.  Josie married Olavus Anfinson, of Northfield, on November 16, 1908.  Olavus was a barber in Northfield for over 50 years.  Josie and Olavus had 5 living children and lived in Northfield until he passed away in 1946, at which time she went to live with one of her children in Minneapolis.  Josie passed away October 9, 1972, at the Dilley Retirement Center of Northfield.  
    Person ID I2654  Don Carlson's Tree
    Last Modified 30 Aug 2018 

    Father John Øysteinsen ELLINGBØE (BÖE) (BØKKO),   b. 10 Jan 1815, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Sep 1902, Dane County, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 87 years) 
    Mother Margrete Øysteinsdatter BØE,   b. 9 Apr 1819, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Dec 1891, Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years) 
    Marriage 30 Oct 1838  Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1879  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Ambjørg (Emma) Olsdotter STRØND (STRAND),   b. 24 May 1856, Vang i Valdres, Oppland, Norway Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Jul 1942, Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years) 
    Marriage 2 Mar 1874  Kenyon, Goodhue County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location 
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    Children 
     1. John Maurice ELLINGBOE,   b. 30 Nov 1874, Stoughton, Dane County, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Jan 1958, Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years)
     2. Ole Bernard ELLINGBOE,   b. 30 Nov 1876, Stoughton, Dane County, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Nov 1957, Rusk County, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)
     3. Martin ELLINGBOE,   b. 19 Mar 1879, Stoughton, Dane County, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Nov 1953, Ramsey County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)
     4. Bethea Mathilda ELLINGBØE,   b. 1 Apr 1881, Dane County, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Apr 1881 (Age 0 years)
     5. Bertha Mathilda ELLINGBOE,   b. 19 Nov 1882, Goodhue County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Apr 1968, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years)
     6. Josie ELLINGBØE,   b. 16 Feb 1885, Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1885, Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location
     7. William Alfred ELLINGBOE,   b. 4 Oct 1886, Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Feb 1965 (Age 78 years)
     8. Josie Olina ELLINGBOE,   b. 23 Aug 1889, Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Oct 1972, Rice County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years)
     9. Osten Adolph ELLINGBOE,   b. 29 Jul 1892, Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Mar 1963, Ramsey County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years)
     10. Thomas Oscar ELLINGBOE,   b. 30 Jul 1894, Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Apr 1981, Ramsey County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years)
     11. Joel Arnold ELLINGBOE,   b. 24 Sep 1901, Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Apr 1981, Santa Clara County, California Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
     12. Bertha ELLINGBØE   d. Unknown Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F1686  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 22 Sep 2015