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Stevens, James, 1892-1971


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    • James Floyd

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    • Stevens, James Floyd, 1892-1971

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    • found: NUCMC data from Univ. Wash. Lib. for Andrews, R.W. Papers, 1956-1965(Stevens, James Floyd)
    • found: LC data base, 7-10-87(hdg.: Stevens, James, 1892-1971; usage: James Stevens)
    • found: WWWA, 1969-73(Stevens, James Floyd; author; b. Albia, Ia., 1892; s. Hague Augustus and Octavia (Turner) S.; m. Theresa Seitz Fitzgerald, 1929; author; member of various forestry associations)
    • found: Gale literature resource center WWW site, Mar. 12, 2020(James F. Stevens; born 1892, died December 30, 1971; American lumberman and author of children's books)
    • found: James Stevens dies, via Seattle times, December 31, 1971, viewed online January 27, 2020(James F. Stevens, 79, writer of Paul Bunyan stories and dean of the Pacific Northwest writers; moved to Idaho at 11 and began working in a logging camp, sold poems to the Saturday Evening Post. Served in France in the Army, wrote for The stars and stripes. Worked logging in Oregon when gave up logging to write full time in Seattle. Moved to Michigan with wife to research Bunyan; returned to Seattle in the mid-1930s)
    • found: U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014, via Ancestry website, viewed online January 27, 2020(James Stevens, birth date: 15 Nov 1892; last residence: Seattle, King, Washington; death date: Dec 1971)
    • found: Washington, Death Index, 1940-2017, via Ancestry website, viewed online January 27, 2020(James F Stevens; residence place: Seattle, Washington; death date: 31 Dec 1971; death place: Seattle, Washington)
    • found: Archives West Orbis Cascade Alliance website, November 18, 2020:James Stevens papers, 1883-1966 > biographical note (James Stevens was a writer and public relations man whose national reputation was based on his popularization of Paul Bunyan and Davy Crockett. He was born in 1892 in Albia, Iowa, and educated at public schools there and in Idaho. He worked in logging camps in his teens and early twenties, but in 1924 he turned to writing as his career. Between 1924 and 1937 he freelanced. In 1937 he was hired by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association (WCLA) as public relations director, a job that allowed him to combine his writing talents with his interest in and knowledge of the forest products industry, and where he had a large part in starting the “Keep Washington Green” fire-prevention campaign. He stayed with WCLA until he retired in 1957. He served with the association until 1957 as a Secretary-Treasurer and a member of the Board of Trustees. He was also a Trustee of the Washington State Forestry Conference, a member of the Society of American Foresters, and of the American Forestry Association; also active in professional writers' associations and served as Trustee of the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference) - http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv59183

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    • PS3537.T4718

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    • 1987-07-21: new
    • 2020-12-12: revised

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