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 and other material on Oregon history and who, in his use of this houseful of documents and of a long, well-stored memory, is widely known as an oral historian} Dr. Joseph Ellison of Oregon State College, frequent contributor to historical quarterlies and author of California and the Nation, 1850–1869; Professor Alfred L. Lomax of the University of Oregon, industrial historian; David Hazen, editor of newspaper departments on history, collector, interviewer and author of Giants and Ghosts of Central Europe; Katharine B. Judson, considered in a previous chapter, who wrote Early Days in Old Oregon and Myths and Legends of the Pacific North-West; Albert Hawkins, for many years historical editorial writer on the Oregonian; Frederick V. Holman, prominent in historical organizations during the later years of his life and author of John McLoughlin, the Father of Oregon; Robert C. Johnson, on the editorial staff of the Oregon Journal, author of a third book-length biography of McLoughlin, scheduled for 1935 publication; Walter Carleton Woodard, author of Rise and Early History of Political Parties in Oregon; historians of the various religious denominations that played an important part in the development of Oregon; county historians, like Orvil Dodge and A. G. Walling; and oratorical historians, including, besides those mentioned in a previous chapter, Charles B. Moores and Binger Herman.

All these have written Oregon history out of an eager interest in the past times of their state. There has been classified with them a group of men and women of various professions who have engaged in