John Leverne ELLINGBOE, Sr

1905 - 1998  (92 years)

• Name	John Leverne ELLINGBOE
  Suffix	Sr
  Birth	12 Jul 1905	Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	10 Sep 1905	Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota
  	probably St. John’s
  Confirmation	30 May 1920	Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota
  	St. John’s
  MN Birth Cert Checked	Y
  Minnesota Birth Certificate	1905-23044
  Occupation	Artist
  Social Security Number	471-34-7337 issued in MN before 1951
  Death	10 Feb 1998	Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona
  Notes	On his birth certificate, he is “Babe.” Graduated from St. Olaf in 1927. A member of the Alpha Kappa society. In the 1930 Minneapolis city directory, he is John L Ellingboe, an artist for the Bureau of Engraving. He and Margaret live at 2555 Bryant Avenue S. John and Margaret were renting an apartment at 2555 Bryant Avenue S. in Minneapolis at the time of the 1930 census. John L. Jr. is listed (age zero) but Mary Margaret is not. John is 25, Margaret is 21. They were married at ages 22 and 19, respectively. All three are shown as having been born in Minnesota. Both of Margaret’s parents were born in Norway. John’s mother was born in Norway but his father was born in Wisconsin. John’s occupation is shown as artist in the engraving or engineering industry. Margaret has no occupation listed. (She would have just graduated from St. Olaf.) The Ellingboes’ address is simply 26th and Bryant on Mary Margaret’s birth certificate. John, Margaret, and 17 month-old John visited Europe in 1931. They arrived back in the U.S. in New York on April 16th aboard the S.S. Lafayette which had departed Le Havre, France, on April 8th. All three of them were travelling under U.S. passport 313558. Their address in the U.S. was Northfield, Minnesota. In the 1932 Minneapolis city directory, he was an artist for Augsburg Publishing House. He and Margaret lived at 5329 35th Avenue S. He was listed in the 1933 Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition with a woodcut, Saint Luke. In the 1935 and 1936 Minneapolis city directories, he was an artist for Augsburg Publishing House. He and Margaret lived at 129 E 56th. In the 1938 Minneapolis directory, he is still an artist with Augsburg. He resides in Robbinsdale. His work at Ausburg included illustrating Sunday School textbooks and other publications for children, including The Boy Who Fought with Kings, A Life of Martin Luther, and Little Koto, A Boy of Madagascar. Inthe 1940 census, he and his family live in Robbinsdale. John was a college graduate, Margaret claimed two years of college. John was the art director for a publishing house. They owned their house, worth $5500, at 3363 France Avenue. (He gave the address as 3263 France in his draft registration on 16 Oct 1940.) In the 1948 Minneapolis city directory, he was a commercial artist at 423 5th Avenue S. He resided at RD 4, Richfield. They lived at 7806 S 78th Street in Bloomington at the time the engagement of their son to Sonya was announced in September of 1951. In the 1958 Glendale city directory, he was an advertising artist. He and Margaret lived at 4661 Lowell Avenue. A November, 1959, article in the Star had him in Hollywood, California. He designed the altar cross in the little chapel in Agnes Melby Hall at St. Olaf College in Northfield. He also did the painting of the St. Olaf woman guided by the spirit of Christ which hangs in the chapel. According to the Minneapolis city directory, John Ellingboe was employed as an artist by The Bureau of Engraving, “a large Twin Cities printing company,” according to Crump’s Minnesota Prints and Printmakers. By the late 1930s, he was at Augsburg Publishing. Illustrated a book in 1943: Land of Suspence Berggrav, Eivind Price: £ 3.08 Book Description: Augsburg Publ (1943). Hard Cover. 144 pages. First Edition. Transl from Norwegian by O. Herbert Aanestad. Illustrated by John L. Ellinghoe. Green cloth hardcover. A VG++ copy in a VG, mylar cover dustjacket with very light edgewear. Bookseller Inventory #11989 Bookseller: Katahdin Books (Queensbury, NY, U.S.A.) The illustrator (“the drawings at the heads of the chapters”) of Theodore Blegen’s Norwegian Migration to America published in 1940 by the Norwegian-American Historical Association. From the February, 1944, St. Olaf alumni magazine: “Augsburg Publishing House has just published a book which is the product of three Oles: Philip Dybvig, '23, and Randolph Haugen, '24, editors, and John Ellingboe, ‘27, artist. The book is "The Forward March of Faith," centennial publication of the Norwegian Lutheran Church. From the points of view of physical make-up, art, and literary content, the book is an extraordinarily fine piece of work.” The March, 1947, alumni magazine notes that John Ellingboe illustrated a children’s book by the Hongs (”The Boy Who Fought With Kings”) published by Augsburg in 1946. The June, 1952, alumni magazine notes that he was a member of the Alumni Council and that his address was: John L. Ellingboe ('27) Richfield Station, R.R. 4, Minneapolis 9. Mike reports: “{John} did work for Augsburg. I have a few of the Christmas annuals that included his work and some original silk screen prints of native American sites in the SW. He designed their handmade Christmas cards every year and sent them out to family. They lived in Hemet for a time and raised Beagles there.” From rubylane.com: “Ellingboe was born in Minnesota and lived there ‘till the 1950s, working for the Bureau of Engraving for many years. He became a commercial artist, then moved to California, residing in Glendale, California, by the mid-1950s. Later on, he moved out to Helmet, California.”
  Person ID	I2364	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	28 Aug 2018

  
  

  Father	John Maurice ELLINGBOE,   b. 30 Nov 1874, Stoughton, Dane County, Wisconsin d. 10 Jan 1958, Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Elise (Lizzie) HENDRICKSON,   b. 12 Apr 1872, Norway d. 13 Jan 1938, Rice County, Minnesota (Age 65 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1895
  Family ID	F1685	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret BYE,   b. 7 Nov 1908, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota d. 25 Jan 2004, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona (Age 95 years)
  Marriage	21 Nov 1927	Rice County, Minnesota
  	per MOMS, another source has their marriage location as Eau Claire
  Children	1. John Leverne ELLINGBOE, Jr,   b. 3 Nov 1929, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota d. 31 Dec 2022, Sea Ranch, California (Age 93 years)
  Family ID	F1684	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Apr 2010