Elmo and Charlotte Ellsworth Photograph Collection (PH-00074)

John Elmo Hughes Ellsworth was born in Safford, Arizona in 1911. He attended George Washington University Law School for a year until his job required him to move to San Francisco, California where he worked in sales promotion, publicity, and theaters. He married Charlotte Rowberry in 1936, and they moved to the Las Vegas, Nevada shortly after. Around 1941, he began working in the Security and Public Relations Department of the Basic Magnesium Company. Soon after, Ellsworth became the board supervisor in Nevada for the Office of Price Administration.

In 1947, he began working for the Reno, Nevada Chamber of Commerce. A year later, Ellsworth moved back to Las Vegas, where he worked for the local Chamber of Commerce and became the director of membership and conventions. In 1957, he accepted a position at the Riviera Hotel & Casino as vice president of sales, then assistant to the president. He and his colleagues organized J. E. E. and Associates to promote sales of conventions in Las Vegas.

Elmo Ellsworth died in December of 1971.

Weltha Charlotte Rowberry was born in Carston, Albert, Canada on July 11, 1912. She married Elmo Hughes Ellsworth on October 16, 1936 in Salt Lake City, Utah. She worked in Las Vegas as a room reservation manager at the Flamingo Hotel from 1950 to 1967, then the Frontier Hotel from 1969 to 1970. After her husband died, she moved to Reno, Nevada where she worked as the room reservation manager for the MGM Grand Reno. She died in Salt Lake City on July 16, 1998.

Sources:

Elmo and Charlotte Ellsworth Papers, 1948-1977. MS-00179. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.

Genealogy files about "John Elmo Hughes Ellsworth" and "Weltha Charlotte Rowberry." Accessed on March 12, 2020 on familysearch.org