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- Union-News (Springfield, MA)
February 10, 1994
F. Irvine Elliott, 78, of 1193 South East St., educator and researcher, died on Sunday at The Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton after a short illness.
He started his career at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., in animal husbandry, where he supervised a new program for cow insemination throughout New York state. From 1944-47, he was technical director of a livestock artificial insemination program in Athens, Greece, sponsored by the Near East Foundation and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
After World War II, he became associate professor at North Carolina State College at Raleigh. In 1949, he became professor andhead of the Department of Animal Industries at the University of Connecticut.
From 1952 to 1981, he worked at the American Breeders Service in Asheville, N.C., and in Madison and DeForest, Wis, where he developed the process to freeze semen.
Born in Rix Mills, Ohio, he worked on his family's Jersey dairy farm, and matriculated at Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio. He was regraduated from Ohio State University, and received his doctorate from Cornell University in 1944.
He was a volunteer for First Call for Help and the Meals on Wheels program. During the eight years he lived in Amherst, he was an official of South Congregational Church.
He was fond of gardening and the outdoors.
He leaves his wife, the former Marjorie Atkins; a son, Kirk "Abe" of Madison, Wis.; two daughters, Karen Elliott Weinberg of Berkeley, Calif., and Kathy King of Richland, Wash.; a brother, Lawrence of Norwich, Ohio; four sisters, Genevieve Brown of Gratiot, Ohio, Elsie McLees of Zanesville, Ohio, Lenna Nowels of Loudonville, Ohio, and Edith Hahn of Columbus, Ohio, and five grandchildren.
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1915 - 1994 (78 years)
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