His sister (My grandmother Emily Louise Elsmore Stewart Mitchell). His parents Joseph Hyrum Elsmore and Sarah Ann Richards. He was the director of air transport for the allied air forces in the southwest Pacific during World War II and controlled the air evacuation of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's forces from the southern Philippines to Australia. A native of Salt Lake City, Utah, he served as a flying instructor in World War I then pioneered air mail runs through the Rocky Mountain Sections. Between wars, he also admitted to the bar of Utah in the same year, he began practiced in Salt Lake City in the office of Herbert B. Maw who later became governor of Utah. His career was interrupt in 1917 by military service in the World War I. On his return to civilian life in 1919, he became a partner in law firm of Elsmore and Clawson, Salt Lake City and earned the name of the "Flying Attorney" through his insistence on piloting his own plane from town to town. He was one of the first executives with Trans-Ocean Airlines where he was executive vice president from 1946 to 1952. During the latter year he became president and director of Western Ski Industries in Hayward, and usually commuted to work in his own plane. AMONG HIS decorations were the Legion of Merit and Distinguished Service Medal. He logged 18,000 hours as a flier. He was survived by his widow wife Belle Hamblin Elsmore, one son Ray Jr., a captain with Japan Air Lines; one daughter Joan, Los Alto; three sisters, Mrs. Emma Rawlings, Denver, Colo.; Mrs. Emily Louise Mitchell, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Mary Earl, American Fork, Utah; two brothers, Hyrum Elsmore, Salt Lake City, Fredrick Elsmore, American Fork, Utah and one grandson. He also author in his real life that had happened "New Guinea's Mountain and Swampland Dwellers" and published by National Geographic Society in 1941 and 1945. My grand uncle Raymond Thomas Elsmore.
By Keith Elsmore Stewart