Ellenwood (Frank Oakes) materials on Stanford and William F. Durand, 1899-1944

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Title:
Frank Oakes Ellenwood materials on Stanford and William F. Durand
Dates:
1899-1944
Creators:
Simkins, H. W., Ellenwood, Frank Oakes, and Durand, William Frederick
Abstract:
Three bound volumes. The 1904 & 1905 Stanford University viewbooks published by H. W. Simkins with additional photographs and handwritten notes added by Frank Oakes Ellenwood. Selected Papers of William Frederick Durand: Reprinted in Commemoration of the Eighty-Fifth Anniversary of His Birth. Pasadena, a bibliography of the published works of Professor W.F. Durand, signed by Durand to F. O. Ellenwood.
Extent:
0.5 Linear Feet
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

[identification of item], Frank Oakes Ellenwood materials on Stanford and William F. Durand (SC1097). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Background

Scope and content:

Three bound volumes. The 1904 & 1905 Stanford University viewbooks published by H. W. Simkins with additional photographs and handwritten notes added by Frank Oakes Ellenwood. Selected Papers of William Frederick Durand: Reprinted in Commemoration of the Eighty-Fifth Anniversary of His Birth. Pasadena, a bibliography of the published works of Professor W.F. Durand, signed by Durand to F. O. Ellenwood.

Biographical / historical:

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.

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Collection Guide Author:
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Date Encoded:
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Preferred citation:

[identification of item], Frank Oakes Ellenwood materials on Stanford and William F. Durand (SC1097). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Location of this collection:
Stanford University Archives, Green Library
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Stanford, CA 94305-6064, US
Contact:
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