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Title: Frederick E. Lockley Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1913-1950
Collection number: Mss137
Creator:
Reginald R. Stuart
Extent: 0.5 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
Stockton, CA 95211
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item], Frederick E. Lockley Papers, Mss137, Holt-Atherton Department
of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
Frederick E. Lockley (b. 1871) was a Portland, Oregon journalist, editor, author, and
antiquarian book dealer. Starting as a newspaper carrier boy, he was a printer, pressman,
reporter, and manager of several Oregon newspapers. Lockley was the general manager of
Pacific Monthly Magazine, Portland (1905-1910) and editorial writer and columnist on the
Oregon Journal (1911-ca. 1950). He was also the author or editor of a number of histories
including Oregon Trail Blazers (1929), Oregon's Yesterdays (1928), Vigilante Days at
Virginia City (1924), To Oregon by Ox-Team in '47 (1924?) and others. Specializing in
Pacific Northwest history, he bought and sold books.
Lockley's papers include letters regarding articles in the Oregon Journal, book trade
correspondence and other personal and business papers. Correspondents include Theodore
Roosevelt, Mrs. Thomas E. Dewey, David Starr Jordan, Ezra Meeker, Vilhjalmur Stefansson,
William M. Ladd, and Reginald R. Stuart.