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Oliver Wendell Holmes (archivist)

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when it was founded in 1935. His positions there included chief of the Interior Department archives from 1938 to 1941, director of research and records description from 1942 to 1945, program advisor from 1946 to 1948, chief of the Natural Resources Records Branch from 1948 to 1961, and executive
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to Swedish-born parents, and was raised on a farm in the southeastern part of the state. In 1922, he received his B.A. from
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in 1956. His area of expertise was the history of transportation in the American western frontier.
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While in school at Columbia he began working as an encyclopedia writer and, later, staff of the
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Holmes was also deeply involved in professional service, and was a founding member of the
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Remarks at the Cosmos Club Memorial Service for Oliver Wendell Holmes December 3, 1981
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Holmes was married to the former Dorothy Behner, who died six months before him.
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He was a founding member of the Potomac Corral of Westerners and a member of the
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Holmes won the Waldo Gifford Leland Prize for his presidential address for the
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He was also published in the Society of American Archivists' Journal and the
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Indian-Related Records in the National Archives and their Use
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Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C.
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in Northfield, Minnesota. He received a Ph.D. in history at
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From Holmes' National Archives identification card, 1941.
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Beginning in the 1930s, he published many articles in
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Director, National Historical Publications Commission
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Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
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Saint Paul, Minnesota
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Western History Association
Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
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