Royal 'Dutch' Elliott

Name: Royal Elliott
Alias: Dutch Elliott
Birth Name: Royal Edward Elliott
Hometown: El Monte, California, USA
Birthplace: El Monte, California, USA
Died: 1956-10-18 (Age:53)
Pro Boxer: Record
Amateur Boxer: Record

Royal Edward Elliott was born in El Monte, Ca. on September 23, 1903, at the family farmhouse on Elliott Ranch Road. He became known as "Dutch" after he stayed on in Holland for many months after boxing for the U. S. team in the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games. When he returned to the U.S., he boxed about a dozen pro matches before his jaw was broken by Dynamite Jackson. Elliott retrained to become a Recreational Director.

Elliott married Anna Hazel Sampson on June 22, 1935 after a 5 year courtship. Their first son, John Carroll Elliott, was born on the El Monte ranch on January 13, 1939. Before the start of WWII, Elliott retrained as a carpenter/cabinet maker in order to work for the Navy Department in Washington D.C., where his youngest son, Howard, was born in Georgetown Hospital on September 3, 1941. The family returned to El Monte, Calif., in 1943, and then moved to their Yucaipa farm in 1948, where Dutch Elliott died of a heart attack (related to boxing) on Oct. 18, 1956.