Jesse M. Ellmore (1847-1904)

ELLMORE

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 7/6/2017 at 21:47:53

From Nevada Representative December 28, 1904

J. M. Ellmore

J. M. Ellmore, a resident of this city though for many years usually absent, died last Thursday at Washington, D. C. and has been buried there. His wife has been with him there for some time, but it is not yet known when she will return home. Mr. Ellmore was over sixty years of age and formerly lived near Colo. About 1888 he had an arm crushed in Smay's creamery north of Colo, and soon afterward he moved to Nevada. In his younger days he had been an Indiana soldier and a member of the 71st Indiana, which was Benjamin Harrison's regiment. The election therefore, of his old colonel in the Presidency gave Mr. Ellmore an opportunity for political consideration, and he was appointed to a place as watchman of the treasury department. He had a pretty hard time holding on during the second Cleveland administration but when McKinley came in he was still there and since then he has had a very good position. He has almost invariably come home to vote the Presidential and congressional years; but this fall he was missed, and it was suggested that something must be wrong. His death, therefore, is less of a surprise than a might have been, although we understand that he was not sick long.