<div dir="ltr">The Oregon State Council of Defense records are wonderful. I've used them for years, both for my own genealogy research, as well as presenting programs about World War I and Oregon. Each soldier's family was requested to complete a questionnaire about the soldier's service record, with all kinds of biographical as well as military information. The response rate was great. Cornelia Marvin was a fantastic State Librarian and State Historian!<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Kevin Mittge</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 4:47 PM, Tony <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tony_greiner@hotmail.com" target="_blank">tony_greiner@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">
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<p>I read an article in the Summer 2017 <i>Oregon Historical Quarterly "</i>The War to End War One Hundred Years Later<i>"
</i>by Kimberly Jensen of Western Oregon University and Christopher Nichols of Oregon State University. I came across this sentence that made my eyebrows pop up:</p>
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<p>"After the Nov 11, 1918 Armistice that concuded the conflict, Oregon State Librarian COrnelia Marvin accepted the monumental task of serving as the historian of Oregon's First World War experiences, working for the state's Council of National Defense...Marvin
gathered some 36,000 personal histories of home and warfront service..</p>
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<p>The footnote goes onto say that Marvin's correspondence and the Oregon State Council of Defense records are stored at the State Archives. The archivists there have put together an onlien exhibit drawing on tehse records:</p>
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<p>"Oregon at War!" <span style="font-size:12pt"><a class="m_-2722970600564772256OWAAutoLink" id="m_-2722970600564772256LPlnk807412" href="http://sos.oregon.gov/archives/exhibits/ww1/Pages/default.aspx" target="_blank">http://sos.oregon.gov/<wbr>archives/exhibits/ww1/Pages/<wbr>default.aspx</a></span></p>
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I sure hope this wasn't announced earlier and I slept through it.
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<p>Tony</p>
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