Thomas Oscar ELLINGBOE

1894 - 1981  (86 years)

• Name	Thomas Oscar ELLINGBOE
  Birth	30 Jul 1894	Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota
  	date on his confirmation record (St. John’s, Northfield), the SSDI, and his death certificate
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	9 Sep 1894	Minnesota
  	as Thomas Oscar Ellingboe, date according to his confirmation record
  Confirmation	23 May 1909	Minnesota
  	as Thomas Oscar Ellingboe
  Minnesota Death Certificate	1981-MN-012696
  Death	29 Apr 1981	Ramsey County, Minnesota
  Notes	May be buried in Forest Lawn, St. Paul. He is Thomas A. Austinson, b. July 1893, son of J. J. Austinson, in the 1900 census. In the 1913 Faribault city directory, which includes Northfield, he was a clerk for Ellingboe Bros. He lives at 319 S Plum. In the 1911 Faribault city directory, which includes Northfield, he was a student living at 614 St. Olaf Avenue. Registered for the draft on June 5, 1917, in Northfield as Thomas Oscar Ellingboe, born July 31, 1893. He resides in Northfield (109 6th Street) where he is employed as a clothing salesman by Ellingboe Brothers. He has a wife and child. He is short and of medium build with dark blue eyes and light brown hair. In the 1920 census, he is 25 and a salesman in a clothing store. In the 1921 Northfield directory, his address is 109 S. Division and he is a clerk with Ellingboe Bros. In the 1927 St. Paul city directory, he is a salesman for Maurice L Rothschild & Co. He lives at 183 S Chatsworth. In the 1929 Faribault city directory, which includes Northfield, the notation for him in the Northfield section is Ellingboe, Thos O, moved to St. Paul. In the 1929 St. Paul city directory, he is a salesman for Maurice L Rothschild & Co. He lives at 995 Linwood Place. In the 1930 census, Thomas and his family live in St. Paul. He is 35 and a salesman in a clothing store. The 1930 city directory for St. Paul indicates that Thomas Ellingboe, a salesman for Maurice L. Rothschild & Company, and his wife, Grace Ellingboe, resided at 995 West Linwood Avenue. That house was built in 1892. The building is a 1 3/4 story, three bedroom, one bathroom, one half-bathroom, 1449 square foot, frame house, with a detached garage. In the 1931 St. Paul city directory, he is still with Rothschild. He and Grace live at 34 S Lexington Parkway. In the 1935 St. Paul city directory, he is still with Rothschild. He and Grace live at 955 Lombard. In the 1937 St. Paul city directory, he is still with Rothschild. He lives at 1049 Goodrich, apartment C. Grace isn’t included in his listing. In the 1940 census, he and Grace and Wenonah live in St. Paul at 1838 Laurel, a rented residence. Thomas and Grace each had two years of high school. He was a salesman in a retail clothing store and had earned $1920 in 1939. Living with them was their daughter Marilyn and her husband and daughter. In the 1941 St. Paul city directory, he is still with Rothschild. He lives on a rural postal delivery route. Their rural Ramsey County home, described as “at Labore Road and Edgerton Street” had a fire in April of 1945. The 3:30 a.m. fire had been discovered by Grace’s brother Lawrence who was staying with the Ellingboes while serving on a jury in St. Paul. In November of 1946, he was a passenger in, and the owner of, a car driven by his daughter Marilyn Stapleton (who would have been pregnant at the time and married to Howard Paynter) which was involved in a collision with a car owned and driven by Roy D. Guerin. Marilyn’s daughter Jacqueline was also a passenger in the car. The damages to the vehicles, and injuries to the occupants of those vehicles, while apparently minor, were the subject of a lawsuit in which Thomas was the plaintiff. The case was of some significance because it resulted in conflicting verdicts arising from a questionable instruction to the jury and had to be resolved on appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court in 1949. In the 1948 and 1950 St. Paul city directories, he is still a salesman with Rothschild. He and Grace live on rural delivery route 7. In the 1950 census, he and Grace live in something Canada in Ramsey County. He is a salesman in a retail clothing store. In the 1956 and 1959 directories of the St. Paul suburbs, he is still a salesman for Rothschild. He and Grace live at 2827 Edgerton in Little Canada. The birth year on his draft registration was 1893. His birth date on his death certificate is July 30, 1894, which is consistent with the ages shown for him in the 1920 and 1930 censuses. SSDI shows 29 Jul 1894. Obit in the Dalby database: Brothers who once lived in Northfield died within a day of each other. They were Joel Ellingboe, 79, who died in Mountain View, Calif., on April 28, 1981, and Thomas O. Ellingboe,? 86, who died in St. Paul on April 29. Both had worked in the Ellingboe Clothing store in Northfield, (in the building now occupied by Northfield Insurance on Bridge Square) when it was owned by their late brothers, John and Martin Ellingboe. Joel is survived by his wife, Madge of Cupertino, Calif., but she was taken seriously ill just a couple of days after his death. Their only child, Roger Ellingboe, died two or three years ago. Two grandchildren survive, Richard Ellingboe of Cupertino and Stephen Ellingboe of Renton, Wash., also eight great-grandchildren. Ellingboe was born in Northfield on Sept. 24, 1901. At the time of his death, he was a member of the Union Presbyterian Church of Los Altos, of Masonic orders including the Osman Temple Shrine in St. Paul. The Ellingboes had lived in the Twin Cities from the time they left Northfield until they retired to California. The memorial service was held Monday evening, Mav 4, at the Union Presbyterian Church in Los Altos, the Rev. Kent Meads officiating. Tom Ellingboe had always lived in St. Paul since leaving Northfield. He is survived by three daughters, Betty Peters (Mrs. Wallace) of St. Paul, Marilyn Paynter (Mrs, Howard) of Shreveport, La, Nona Hoffman (Mrs. Robert) of Liberty, Mo.; also six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Private interment was held in Forest Lawn Cemetery, St. Paul. There was no visitation. The arrangements were made by the Willwerscheid & Peters Mortuary. John M. Ellingboe, who continued the clothing business here after other members of the family had moved away, died on Jan.10, 1958. He was then 83 and had been retired since 1945. He had been in business in Northfield for 42 years since 1903. Martin Ellingboe had already died at the time of Johns death. The brothers were sons of John J. and Ambjor (Strand) Ellingboe. The older members of the family were born in Stoughton, Wis., and the family moved to Northfield in 1882. They settled on the Wall Street road on the farm that has for many years now been in the Miller family.
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  Last Modified	9 Jun 2025

  
  

  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	Grace Sylvina THORSON,   b. 1 Dec 1896, Minnesota d. 7 Mar 1973, Ramsey County, Minnesota (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	11 Nov 1915	Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota
  Children	1. Marilyn Deloris ELLINGBOE,   b. 15 Jul 1916, Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota d. 30 Jul 2005, Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas (Age 89 years)   2. Wenonah June ELLINGBOE,   b. 17 Dec 1917, Rice County, Minnesota d. 28 Dec 2010, Arenas Valley, Grant County, New Mexico (Age 93 years)   3. Betty Jane ELLINGBOE,   b. 22 Jan 1921, Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota d. 22 Feb 2015, Hennepin County, Minnesota (Age 94 years)
  Family ID	F1899	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2012