It was included in How Could I Be Forgetting, a 1926 compilation of the author's essays and poems. Lampman also wrote a column in The Oregonian entitled "Where to Bury A Dog" which is frequently cited in pet memorials. The Lewis and Clark Collection also contains, on loan, from the family of Ben's long-time friend, Elizabeth Salway Ryan, Ben's typewriter, his trademark glasses, a complete set of proofs of all 14 of his books and many more items. Others reside at Lewis and Clark College and the Oregon Historical Society. Some of his papers and manuscripts are now in the collection of the library of the University of Oregon. Henry Award for his short story "Blinker Was a Good Dog" which originally appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. Some of his essays about life in Portland were collected in his 1942 book At the End of the Car Line. His stories and essays also appeared in national magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post. He also wrote nature essays in The Oregonian. In additional to part-time editorial writing, he worked as a reporter and feature writer for The Oregonian until 1922, when the paper made him a full-time editorial writer and an associate editor. In 1920, he published an account of the 1919 Centralia Massacre. For his first 14 months at the paper, he covered police-related news, but also wrote editorials from time to time. He was hired, moved to Portland, and began working for The Oregonian on February 1, 1916. His writing caught the attention of Paul Kelty, then the news editor of Portland's The Oregonian, who recommended Lampman to editor-in-chief Edgar B. In 1912, Lampman moved from North Dakota to Oregon to become manager and publisher of the Gold Hill News, a weekly newspaper in Gold Hill, Oregon. He worked on the Arena for seven years, writing editorials and columns and helping to manage the business. His first work in newspaper writing took place when he was 19 years old (1905 or 1906), when he and another young man co-founded the Michigan City Arena, a newspaper in Michigan City, North Dakota. His brother Rex Lampman was a columnist for the Oregon Journal and, later, the Pittsburg Leader. They remained married for the remainder of his life. At the age of 19, he married Lena Sheldon (his same age), a New York City resident who had moved to the Dakotas to become a school teacher. He left home at age 15 and worked in the wheat country of Canada. As a boy, he worked in his father's print shop. The family moved to Neche, North Dakota, when Ben was 4 years old, and his father founded another newspaper in Neche after arriving there.
Early life īen Lampman was born on August 12, 1886, in Barron, Wisconsin. He was a longtime associate editor at The Oregonian in Portland, Oregon, and he served as Poet laureate of Oregon from 1951 until his death.
Ben Hur Lampman (Aug– January 24, 1954) was an American newspaper editor, essayist, short story writer, and poet.
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