The Marietta Times Marietta, Ohio -Sept. 9, 1947. FRANK ELLENWOOD Native of County, Dies at Ithaca Frank Oakes Ellenwood, 69, of Ithaca, N. Y., former resident of Washington Co. and a member of one of the old families of the Newbury settlement near Little Hocking, died Sunday morning in Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, N. Y. following a short illness. News of his death has been received by local relatives. Mr. Ellenwood was professor of engineering for 37 years at Cornell University at Ithaca, and was head of the department of heat and power engineering there since 1940. Since 1941, he was John Edson Sweet Professor of Engineering at Cornell. Born Nov. 10, 1878 at Newbury, he was the son of Douglas Harlow Ellenwood and Cynthia Clough Oakes Ellenwood. He was graduated from Marietta Academy, and received his A. B. degree in mechancial engineering from Leland Stanford University in 1904. His accomplishments, as listed in Who's Who, tell of his connections with engineering plants in San Francisco and as instructor in mechanical engineering at Leland Stanford University before assuming his duties at Cornell. Mr. Ellenwood was the author of several engineering text books and was consultant of the Public. Service Commission of New York City until his death. He was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering; of Sigma Xi; of Tau Beta Pi; president of Phi Kappa Phi, Atmos, Triangle and of the research club of Cornell. He was also a member of the First Unitarian Church at Ithaca; of the Masonic Lodge, and of theIthaca Country Club. On June 30, 1909, he married Cecelia Freeman Atherton at Palo Alto, Cal., and she survives with two daughters, Mrs. Hazel Hammond, wife of Dr. Warner H. Hammond of the Medical College of Syracuse University, and Mrs. Prince McGuyre of Wichita, Kan. There are three grandchildren, Paul and Douglas Hammond and Patricia McGuyre. Relatives in and near Marietta include Mrs. Effie Ellenwood, Mrs. Ethel Alderman, Mrs. Helen Devol Chamberlain, Mrs. Robert L. Hausser of Marietta; Mrs. Carl Robinson, Mrs. Wilbur R. Woodburn and Mrs. C. Errol Holdren of Little Hocking; Mrs. Frank C. McGill and Mrs. Charlotte Miller of Veto. Memorial services will be held Thursday afternoon at Ithaca. Dr. E. L. Christie, formerly of the faculty of Marietta College, will participate in the service. Interment will be at Ithaca. Debbie Noland Nitsche Philadelphia, PA. Researching MANKINS, JOHNSON, PARKE, MASON, COBURN, McNEAL, FARNSWORTH, COYLE, NOLAND, McNAMEE http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/n/i/t/Debra-Nitsche// PHOTO SITE OF "FAMILIES OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO" http://hometown.aol.com/familiesofwashco/index.html MY HISTORICAL PHOTO COLLECTION OF WASHINTON COUNTY, OHIO http://hometown.aol.com/washcoohiopics/myhomepage/collection.html WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL LINKS (under construction) http://hometown.aol.com/washcohistory/index.html