Minnie Estella Murphy and Frank Houston Swift
FRANK HOUSTON SWIFT, son of ZERVIAH JANE HOUSTON and CHARLES ANDREW SWIFT, was born May 16, 1888 in Denmark, Lee, Iowa,8 and died September 29, 1956 in Multnomah County, Oregon.876 He is buried in Lincoln Memorial Park, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon.4649
He married MINNIE ESTELLA MURPHY on January 25, 1913 in Multnomah County, Oregon.2598 She was born August 5, 1885 in Oak Creek, Milwaukee, Wisconsin,4647 and died March 2, 1978 in Multnomah County, Oregon.876
Education
- Frank Houston Swift graduated from the University of Oregon, Eugene, Lane, Oregon, June 22, 1910.4646
Newspaper Articles
Oregonian, July 7, 19104648
U. OF O. MAN HONORED
CORNELL FELLOWSHIP GOES TO FRANK HOUSTON SWIFT.
First Recognition Is Given Oregon by Eastern University—Graduate Ranks High
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, Or., July 6.—(Special)—One of the two fellowships which Cornell University gives annually to American college graduates will be held next year by a University of Oregon man. Frank Houston Swift is the lucky man.
Swift was a member of this year's record-breaking graduating class, in the department of electrical engineering. His fellowship amount to $500 and is in the same department. He is the first man from the University of Oregon ever to receive such recognition.
Cornell grants only two fellowships each year and their attainment is one of the rarest to come to a Western college. The fact that the electrical engineering department of the University of Oregon is thus recognized in competition with all the colleges of the country is considered one of the strongest indoresements [sic] it could have received.
This recognition is probably the result of the impression which Oregon students have been making during the last few years in their work at the great institution on the banks of the Hudson. Only last year, Paul W. Reed and R. U. Steelquist, two graduates in the electrical engineering department of the 1909 class, entered Cornell and received their E. E. degrees in one year. This is the shortest time in which it is possible for any many to get this degree, even when coming from the largest colleges, and the fact that Oregon students can do it shows the quality of work being done here.
Professor Richard H. Dearborn, the head of the electrical engineering department at the University of Oregon, is himself a Cornell man of the class of 1900. He is much pleased with the quality of work his students are doing at his alma mater and the recognition they are receiving there.
The graduates in his department are being sought after more and more by the big electrical power and construction companies of the country, the fact that a man from Oregon being about the only recommendation necessary. Herman A. Wetterborg and W. G. Williams, two members of this year's class, have already secured positions with the General Electric Company of Schenectady, N. Y.
The Oregon man who will hold one of the fellowships at Cornell next year is from Pleasant Hill and did his preparatory work in Eugene High School where he finished with highest honors. During his last year he was editor of the Eugene High School News, the student publication.
At the university he has been an exceptional student, ranking high in all his classes. He won particular distinction and was given "special mention" among the graduating class for his thesis. This was an intricate electrical switchboard for the university laboratory, which he designed and constructed in conjunction with a fellow student, Edwin Platts.
Obituaries
Oregonian, October 1, 19564649
SWIFT—Frank H., 735 SE 72d; husband of Minnie M.; brother of Miss Alice Swift and Edward Y. Swift. Private services will be held Monday, EDW. HOLMAN & SON. Hawthorne at 27th. Interment Lincoln Memorial Park mausoleum. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Heart Fund.
Census Records
| Date | Location | Enumerated Names |
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| April 21, 19104636 | Eugene, Lane, Oregon |
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| April 2, 1930901 | Portland, Multnomah, Oregon |
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| April 6, 19402679 | Portland, Multnomah, Oregon |
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