Roll of Honor
Eli R. Doyle
Incident
Marshal Eli Doyle died after falling from a staircase inside the City Hotel, at the intersection of Eleventh Street and Harney Street, in Omaha, Nebraska.
He was attending to the United States Courtroom, which was inside the hotel, when he fell. The staircase did not have a railing at the time he fell.
Marshal Doyle had served as the United States Marshal for the Nebraska Territory for only mine months.
Survivors
He was survived by his family.
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- July 23, 2026
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Marshal Doyle served with the United States Department of Justice.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Marshal Eli R. Doyle is one of 10,088 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 31% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In DC, 454 of 1,419 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 32% of this state's fallen. That is 1 percentage points above the national rate of 31%.
At United States Department of Justice - United States Marshals Service, 43 of 313 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 13.7% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
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Incident Location
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