Son of Goodwin D. Ellsworth and Priscilla Jane Williams Ellsworth. Married Clara B. Wilkie.
From the Washington Times, 13 Jan 1913:
ATHLETE ENDS LIFE BY LEAP INTO THE SEA
WAS ONCE PROMINENT AS SCHOLASTIC STAR
Represented Tech High and YMCA in different Sports in Competition Here.
Dewitt Talmadge Ellsworth, who as a student in Technical High School and later as a member of the District National Guard and the YMCA was a prominent athlete in Washington and for the last two years has been in the Government employ in Panama, leaped overboard from the steamer Alliance on January 11 and was drowned ... The Alliance searched the sea for him until there was no hope for the recovery of his body and then steamed on her way.
Word was brought today when the steamer docked in New York. Young Ellsworth had suffered a nervous and physical collapse and his parents, at 1248 Girard Street, were notified that he was being sent home.
Yesterday D.G. Ellsworth went to New York to meet his son, but not until today did he learn of his fate. He will return to Washington tonight. Young Ellsworth's mother and father live in Washington, and a sister, Mrs. De Leon Carleton, lives in Marion, N.C. "Goody" Ellsworth, another brother, lives in Seattle, Wash., and Curtis Ellsworth, another brother, lives in Arizona.
Before going to Panama about four years ago, Ellsworth married Miss Clara Barclay Wilkie of Camden, N.J. She accompanied him to Panama, but returned about two years ago on account of her health. A diamond ring which Ellsworth was bringing home to his wife was found in the young man's effects.
While in the employ of the Canal Commission, Ellsworth invented a "dump valve" and saved the Government much money. For this invention, he won the recognition of Colonel Goethals.
[Dewitt's young widow, Clara, died only two years later of tuberculosis at age 28.]
From the Washington Times, 13 Jan 1913:
ATHLETE ENDS LIFE BY LEAP INTO THE SEA
WAS ONCE PROMINENT AS SCHOLASTIC STAR
Represented Tech High and YMCA in different Sports in Competition Here.
Dewitt Talmadge Ellsworth, who as a student in Technical High School and later as a member of the District National Guard and the YMCA was a prominent athlete in Washington and for the last two years has been in the Government employ in Panama, leaped overboard from the steamer Alliance on January 11 and was drowned ... The Alliance searched the sea for him until there was no hope for the recovery of his body and then steamed on her way.
Word was brought today when the steamer docked in New York. Young Ellsworth had suffered a nervous and physical collapse and his parents, at 1248 Girard Street, were notified that he was being sent home.
Yesterday D.G. Ellsworth went to New York to meet his son, but not until today did he learn of his fate. He will return to Washington tonight. Young Ellsworth's mother and father live in Washington, and a sister, Mrs. De Leon Carleton, lives in Marion, N.C. "Goody" Ellsworth, another brother, lives in Seattle, Wash., and Curtis Ellsworth, another brother, lives in Arizona.
Before going to Panama about four years ago, Ellsworth married Miss Clara Barclay Wilkie of Camden, N.J. She accompanied him to Panama, but returned about two years ago on account of her health. A diamond ring which Ellsworth was bringing home to his wife was found in the young man's effects.
While in the employ of the Canal Commission, Ellsworth invented a "dump valve" and saved the Government much money. For this invention, he won the recognition of Colonel Goethals.
[Dewitt's young widow, Clara, died only two years later of tuberculosis at age 28.]
Son of Goodwin D. Ellsworth and Priscilla Jane Williams Ellsworth. Married Clara B. Wilkie.
From the Washington Times, 13 Jan 1913:
ATHLETE ENDS LIFE BY LEAP INTO THE SEA
WAS ONCE PROMINENT AS SCHOLASTIC STAR
Represented Tech High and YMCA in different Sports in Competition Here.
Dewitt Talmadge Ellsworth, who as a student in Technical High School and later as a member of the District National Guard and the YMCA was a prominent athlete in Washington and for the last two years has been in the Government employ in Panama, leaped overboard from the steamer Alliance on January 11 and was drowned ... The Alliance searched the sea for him until there was no hope for the recovery of his body and then steamed on her way.
Word was brought today when the steamer docked in New York. Young Ellsworth had suffered a nervous and physical collapse and his parents, at 1248 Girard Street, were notified that he was being sent home.
Yesterday D.G. Ellsworth went to New York to meet his son, but not until today did he learn of his fate. He will return to Washington tonight. Young Ellsworth's mother and father live in Washington, and a sister, Mrs. De Leon Carleton, lives in Marion, N.C. "Goody" Ellsworth, another brother, lives in Seattle, Wash., and Curtis Ellsworth, another brother, lives in Arizona.
Before going to Panama about four years ago, Ellsworth married Miss Clara Barclay Wilkie of Camden, N.J. She accompanied him to Panama, but returned about two years ago on account of her health. A diamond ring which Ellsworth was bringing home to his wife was found in the young man's effects.
While in the employ of the Canal Commission, Ellsworth invented a "dump valve" and saved the Government much money. For this invention, he won the recognition of Colonel Goethals.
[Dewitt's young widow, Clara, died only two years later of tuberculosis at age 28.]
From the Washington Times, 13 Jan 1913:
ATHLETE ENDS LIFE BY LEAP INTO THE SEA
WAS ONCE PROMINENT AS SCHOLASTIC STAR
Represented Tech High and YMCA in different Sports in Competition Here.
Dewitt Talmadge Ellsworth, who as a student in Technical High School and later as a member of the District National Guard and the YMCA was a prominent athlete in Washington and for the last two years has been in the Government employ in Panama, leaped overboard from the steamer Alliance on January 11 and was drowned ... The Alliance searched the sea for him until there was no hope for the recovery of his body and then steamed on her way.
Word was brought today when the steamer docked in New York. Young Ellsworth had suffered a nervous and physical collapse and his parents, at 1248 Girard Street, were notified that he was being sent home.
Yesterday D.G. Ellsworth went to New York to meet his son, but not until today did he learn of his fate. He will return to Washington tonight. Young Ellsworth's mother and father live in Washington, and a sister, Mrs. De Leon Carleton, lives in Marion, N.C. "Goody" Ellsworth, another brother, lives in Seattle, Wash., and Curtis Ellsworth, another brother, lives in Arizona.
Before going to Panama about four years ago, Ellsworth married Miss Clara Barclay Wilkie of Camden, N.J. She accompanied him to Panama, but returned about two years ago on account of her health. A diamond ring which Ellsworth was bringing home to his wife was found in the young man's effects.
While in the employ of the Canal Commission, Ellsworth invented a "dump valve" and saved the Government much money. For this invention, he won the recognition of Colonel Goethals.
[Dewitt's young widow, Clara, died only two years later of tuberculosis at age 28.]
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