where was elmo born
Elmo Lincoln, the original Tarzan of the movies, was born Otto Elmo Linkenhelt in Rochester, Indiana on February 6, 1889, into a middle-class family of seven. The largest child in his class at Lincoln School, Elmo developed a reputation as a prankster, hopping trains as a teen. He headed to California after he turned 18. Elmo's grandfather was the town's first marshal, and at one point of his life, Elmo himself served as a lawman in Arkansas.