John Colin Elliott (1891 - 1949)

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Elliott Thomas Elliott

Alieise Margaret Moore Elliott

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Elliott Thomas Elliott

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Alieise Margaret Moore Elliott

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James Elliott

Mac Andrew Elliott

Mac Andrew Elliott

Patricia Elliott

Marjorie Atkinson Elliott

Sharon Adkisson Brown & Linda Elliott

Sharon Elizabeth Adkisson Brown

Donald Madden

Jeanette Theodota (Mundt) Elliott

Serenity Elliott

George Elliott

Jesse Elliott

Almeda Elliott

Priscilla Price

Alta Dillon slumber party 1898

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In 1891, in the year that John Colin Elliott was born, on March 14th, a lynch mob stormed the Old Parish Prison. The mob lynched 11 of the 19 Italians who were arrested for - but found to be innocent of - the murder of New Orleans Police Chief David Hennessy.

In 1905, he was merely 14 years old when the German born physicist, Albert Einstein, proposed the Special Theory of Relativity: 1) that observers can never detect uniform motion except relative to other objects and that 2) unlike the velocity of massive objects, the speed of light is a constant and is the same for all observers independent of their constant velocity toward or away from the light source. Not such simple concepts that lead to the equation everyone now knows: E = mc2.

In 1916, John was 25 years old when suffragette Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives as a Representative at large from Montana. She was the first woman to hold an elected Federal office. Holding the office for two years, she ran again in 1940 and served another two year term. Montana had granted women unrestricted voting rights in 1914, 6 years before women got the vote nationally.

In 1937, when he was 46 years old, on May 6th, the German zeppelin the Hindenburg caught fire and blew up. The Hindenburg was a passenger ship traveling to Frankfurt Germany. It tried to dock in New Jersey, one of the stops, and something went wrong - it blew up. Thirty-six people were killed out of the 97 on board - 13 passengers, 22 crewmen, and one ground worker. The reasons for the explosion are still disputed.

In 1949, in the year of John Colin Elliott's passing, on January 25th, the first Emmy Awards (for television) were handed out in Los Angeles. Shirley Dinsdale won for the Most Outstanding Television Personality and Pantomime Quiz Time earned an Emmy for the Most Popular Television Program.