Will/Braffitt/Johnson/Cook genealogy - Person Sheet
Will/Braffitt/Johnson/Cook genealogy - Person Sheet
NameNewton Crumley
Birth1 Mar 1876, Union, GA100,1,2
Death3 Jul 1946, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA100,1,2
BurialMasonic Memorial Gardens, Reno, Washoe, NV1,2
FatherBenjamin Jasper Crumley (1832-1908)
MotherSarah Catherine Addington (1836-1919)
Misc. Notes
!BIRTH-DEATH: 03-Jul-1946 San Francisco, CA deaths100, Newton Crumley
!BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: Masonic Memorial Gardens, Reno, Washoe, NV1, Newton Crumley, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143142122
!BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: FamilySearch2, Newton Crumley, https://ancestors.familysearch.org/KZCX-HQ3
!CENSUS: 1880 Kingman, Kingman, KS, Newton Crumley
!CENSUS: 01-Mar-1885 Ninnescah, Kingman, KS, Newton Crumley
!MARRIAGE: 17-Mar-1910 Nye, NV marriages
!REFERENCE: 18-Mar-1910 Tonopah Daily Bonanza, Tonopah, Nye, NV, page 3, "Mr. and Mrs. Newt Crumley will visit California"
!CENSUS: 1910 Precinct 1, Tonopah, Nye, NV, Newton Cumley
!REFERENCE: 12-Sep-1918 Nye, NV WWI draft registration card, Newton Crumley
!CENSUS: 1920 Tonopah, Nye, NV, Newton Crumley
!REFERENCE: Description and History of Elko, "Newton Crumley had operated saloons and hotels in Tonopah, Goldfield, and Jarbidge before he settled in Elko in 1925 and bought the Commercial Hotel. He and his son, Newton Jr., operated the hotel with an eye toward the future.", http://www.nevadaweb.com/cnt/cc/elko/
!CENSUS: 1930 Elko, Elko, NV, 55/63, Newton Crumley
!REFERENCE: (son’s wife) 27-Nov-1963, Press Democrat (Sonoma, CA), page 6C, "Lucy Crumley. Funeral arrangements are being made at Lafferty & Smith Mortuary for Mrs. Lucy Crumley, 82, who died yesterday at a Santa Rosa rest home. Mrs. Crumley’s survivors include a niece, Mrs. Newton Crumley, Reno. Nev."
!OCCUPATION: Commercial hotel manager
!REFERENCE: 2001, profile of son Newton Hunt Crumley by Richard Moreno, "Newton H. Crumley (1911-1962): In 1941, Newt Crumley forever changed the way casinos did business in Nevada. Prior to that time, most casinos believed that their customers came for one thing - to gamble. However, Crumley, owner of the Commercial Hotel in Elko, recognized that gamblers couldn't possibly spend all their time at the tables and decided to offer something else - big-name entertainment. Starting on April 26, bandleader Ted Lewis, a popular radio star of the 1930s and '40s, performed for a week at the Commercial. The move was bold - Lewis earned $12,000 for the gig - but it paid off with standing-room-only crowds and more gamblers in Crumley's casino. The hotelier later booked Sophie Tucker, Jimmy Dorsey, Lawrence Welk, and Chico Marx. Soon, hotels in Reno and Las Vegas took note of Crumley's inspiration and brought in big-name entertainers. Crumley, who grew up in Tonopah and Reno, graduated from the University of Nevada in Reno and became a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps. Shortly after bringing Ted Lewis to Elko, Crumley returned to active duty in the Second World War, later retiring with the rank of colonel. In 1955, Crumley, who also owned the Ranchinn Motor Hotel in Elko, sold his two properties and purchased the Holiday Hotel in Reno. He was elected to the University of Nevada Board of Regents and served in the State Senate. Crumley died in 1962 after a plane he was piloting crashed northeast of Tonopah in a freezing rainstorm.", https://web.archive.org/web/20111012121410/http://www.elkorose.com/crumley.html
!REFERENCE: Online Nevada Encyclopedia, Newton Crumbley, Jr., http://www.onlinenevada.org/newton_crumley,_jr.
!REFERENCE: Descendants of J. Frederick Schmitt in Avon, Ohio, son Newton Hunt Crumley and granddaughter Janice Lee Crumley, http://www.avonhistory.org/gen/smi1.htm
Spouses
Birth22 Oct 1885, Belmont, Nye, NV99,1,2
Death20 Dec 1935, Elko, Elko, NV99,1,2
BurialMasonic Memorial Gardens, Reno, Washoe, NV99,1,2
Misc. Notes
!BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: 20-Dec-1935 Elko, Elko, NV deaths99, Lee Hunt Crumley
!BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: Masonic Memorial Gardens, Reno, Washoe, NV1, Lee Hunt Crumley, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143142125
!BIRTH-DEATH-BURIAL: FamilySearch2, Lee L. Hunt, https://ancestors.familysearch.org/KZD1-M86
!MARRIAGE: 17-Mar-1910 Nye, NV marriages
!REFERENCE: 18-Mar-1910 Tonopah Daily Bonanza, Tonopah, Nye, NV, page 3, "Mr. and Mrs. Newt Crumley will visit California"
!CENSUS: 1910 Precinct 1, Tonopah, Nye, NV, Ley Cumley
!REFERENCE: 12-Sep-1918 Nye, NV WWI draft registration card for husband Newton Crumley, Lee Crumley
!CENSUS: 1920 Tonopah, Nye, NV, Lee L. Crumley
!CENSUS: 1930 Elko, Elko, NV, 55/63, Louisa Crumley
!REFERENCE: 2001, profile of son Newton Hunt Crumley by Richard Moreno, "Newton H. Crumley (1911-1962): In 1941, Newt Crumley forever changed the way casinos did business in Nevada. Prior to that time, most casinos believed that their customers came for one thing - to gamble. However, Crumley, owner of the Commercial Hotel in Elko, recognized that gamblers couldn't possibly spend all their time at the tables and decided to offer something else - big-name entertainment. Starting on April 26, bandleader Ted Lewis, a popular radio star of the 1930s and '40s, performed for a week at the Commercial. The move was bold - Lewis earned $12,000 for the gig - but it paid off with standing-room-only crowds and more gamblers in Crumley's casino. The hotelier later booked Sophie Tucker, Jimmy Dorsey, Lawrence Welk, and Chico Marx. Soon, hotels in Reno and Las Vegas took note of Crumley's inspiration and brought in big-name entertainers. Crumley, who grew up in Tonopah and Reno, graduated from the University of Nevada in Reno and became a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Corps. Shortly after bringing Ted Lewis to Elko, Crumley returned to active duty in the Second World War, later retiring with the rank of colonel. In 1955, Crumley, who also owned the Ranchinn Motor Hotel in Elko, sold his two properties and purchased the Holiday Hotel in Reno. He was elected to the University of Nevada Board of Regents and served in the State Senate. Crumley died in 1962 after a plane he was piloting crashed northeast of Tonopah in a freezing rainstorm.", https://web.archive.org/web/20111012121410/http://www.elkorose.com/crumley.html
!REFERENCE: Addington/Crumley web site420, Lee Hunt
!REFERENCE: Descendants of J. Frederick Schmitt in Avon, Ohio, son Newton Hunt Crumley and granddaughter Janice Lee Crumley, http://www.avonhistory.org/gen/smi1.htm
Marriage17 Mar 1910, Nye, NV
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