Biographical/Historical note
Frank Oakes Ellenwood was born November 10, 1878 in Little Hocking, Ohio. In 1904 he received the degree of A.B. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, and in 1922 the degree of Mechanical Engineer, also from Stanford University. In 1911 he went to Cornell University as an assistant professor of heat-power engineering after serving as an instructor of mechanical engineering at Stanford from 1908 to 1911. In 1915 he was made Professor of Heat-Power Engineering; in 1940 he was made head of that department, and in 1941 he was appointed John Edson Sweet Professor of Engineering. He died in Rochester, New York, on September 7, 1947.
From the guide to the Frank Oakes Ellenwood materials on Stanford and William F. Durand, 1899-1944, (Department of Special Collections and University Archives)
