Pasadena Star News, Monday, June 28, 1920

  Dr. Finley Ellingwood passed away at 614 South Lake avenue June 26, aged 67 years. Funeral services were held at the parlors of Turner & Stevens yesterday at 4 p. m., Dr. Merle N. Smith officiating. Burial will take place at Evaston, Ill.

Pasadena Evening Post, Monday, June 28, 1920

  Dr. Finley Ellingwood, noted medical authority, author and publisher of Ellingwood's Theraputist, died at his temporary home here Saturday afternoon at 5 o'clock, aged 67 years.

  Dr. Ellingwood was the father of Elliot Lee Ellingwood of this city, B. O. Kendall's son-in-law. He is survived by his wife and three other sons and one daughter. Another son, Lloyd Ellingwood, was with his father at the time of death as was Dr. Ellingwood's wife.

 The funeral service was held Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Turner & Stevens chapel, Rev. Merle Smith of the First Methodist church, officiating. Cremation today was private.

  Dr. Ellingwood was a resident of Evanston, Illinois, and was famous as a writer on medical topics. He had contributed three notable books to medical science and was also well known as a lecturer at the Bennett Medical college.

  His son Lloyd, who was with him when he died, had just graduated from Northwestern university at Evanston.

  The funeral services were held from the parlors of Turner & Stevens yesterday at 4 p.m., Dr. Merle N. Smith officiating. Interment will take place at Evanston, Illinois.

Ellingwood, Finley, physician, b. Manchester, Ind., 1852; d. Evanston, Ill., June 29, 1920. [10;63]

Ellingwood, Finley: 1852--1920.

Finley Ellingwood was born in Manchester, Ind., on  Sept. 12, 1852. He was the son of Elijah and Mary Abigail Rice Ellingwood. He received an M.D. degree from Bennett Medical College (Chicago) in 1878 and married Jennie S. Elliott on Sept. 1, 1880. Ellingwood began a medical practice in Braidwood, Ill., in 1876 and taught at Bennett Medical College, 1884--1907. He edited the Chicago Medical Times, 1884--1906;  the Eclectic Medical Annual, 1889--91; and Ellingwood's Therapeutist, 1906--20. He was the first vice president of the World's Eclectic Medical Congress, 1903, and died on June 29, 1920.

Information from Who Was Who in America.

A Synopsis of Medical Chemistry, Chicago, 1889.
A Systematic Treatise on Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Chicago, 1898.
A Manual on the Eclectic Treatment of Disease, Chicago, 1906-07. 2 vols.
Uncomplicated Pregnancy and Labor, Chicago, 1912.
American Materia Medica, Therapeutics, and Pharmacognosy, Developing the Latest Acquired Knowledge of Drugs, Chicago, 1915.

Ellingwood, Finley (1852--1920) editor and author of Illinois, was born September 12, 1850, in Manchester, Indiana, the son of Elijah and Mary Abigail Rice Ellingwood. He was a graduate of the Bennett College of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery of Chicago in 1878, and practiced in Kankakee County, Illinois, until 1884 when he was appointed professor of chemistry in his alma mater. He held this chair until he assumed the professorship of meteria medica and therapeutics in 1900, resigning in 1907.

Dr. Ellingwood was the editor of "The Chicago Medical Times" from 1884 until 1906, "The Eclectic Medical Annual" from 1889 until 1891, and "Ellingwood's Therapist" from 1906, and was the author of "Eclectic Medical Annual," 1888, "Synopsis of Medical Chemistry," 1889, "Manual for Urinalysis,"
1891, "Ellingwood's Materia Medica," (8 eds.), 1889, "Ellingwood's Pregnancy and Labor," 1912, and "Ellingwood's New American Materia Medica," 1915. He was president of the National Eclectic Medical Association in  1919 and first vice-president of the World's Eclectic Medical Congress in 1903.

On September 1, 1880 he married Jennie S. Elliott of Chicago. He died June 29, 1920, at Pasadena, California.