Multnomah-Lane County OR Archives Biographies.....Campbell, Herbert J. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ila L. Wakley iwakley@msn.com April 16, 2008, 10:43 pm Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company HERBERT J. CAMPBELL. Among the noteworthy public institutions of Vancouver is the Evening Columbian, which, under the able management of its present owner, Herbert J. Campbell, has gained recognition as one of the best edited and most influential newspapers in western Washington. This paper was established in 1889 as a weekly publication and was known as the Vancouver Columbian. The first owners were Prof. Patrick Hough, S. D. Dennis, who served as editor for six years, and Senator B. F. Shaw. Sometime later they sold the paper to J. A. C. Brant, who in turn sold it to two other men, who ran it until 1906, when it became the property of E. E. Beard. On October 9, 1908, he changed it to a daily, and continued to publish it until September, 1918, when he disposed of it to George Hyland. Six months later it was sold to W. H. Hornibrook, a former United States minister to Siam, who previously had been editor of the Albany Democrat. On May 1, 1921, Herbert J. Campbell bought the Evening Columbian and has published it to the present time. The office of the Coluinbian was originally located over the present street car waiting room, at Third and Market streets, and later was moved to the 1. O. O. F. building, which at that time was occupied as the postoffice, and when the government vacated the building it was taken ever by the Columbian. On April 15, 1928, the paper was moved to the new building erected for its use at Tenth and Broadway streets. The building is one hundred by one hundred feet, is arranged specially for the requirements of the paper, and in it has been installed much new and modern equipment. The Columbian was originally a six-co1umn paper, of eight to ten pages, all home print, and in 1919 had a circulation of about one thousand. In 1921, under Mr. Hornibrook’s management, the circulation had increased to twenty-two hundred, and it is now forty-four hundred. The paper, which is issued daily except Sunday, contains from eight to twelve eight- column pages, and typographically is all that could be desired. Its news columns are edited with painstaking care, all objectionable matter being kept from its pages, and it is a we1conie visitor into most of the homes of Vancouver and vicinity. It has a leased wire of the Associated Press, is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation and in the Washington State Press Association. Herbert J. Campbell came west to Oregon when sixteen years old and completed his educational training at the University of Oregon in 1904. His first newspaper experience was gained as a cub reporter with the Spokane Chronicle, for which he went to work in 1906. He was promoted to the sports editor’s desk and remained with that paper three years, going next to the Oregon Journal, at Portland, where he remained six months. He next joined the force of the Portland Oregonian, with which he was identified until 1919 with the exception of one year as telegraph editor of the Post-Intelligencer at Seattle in 1911, and one year, 1914, at the news desk of the Baker Herald. With the Oregonian he served as reporter and later as copy reader, being at the head of the desk, where he served until 1919, when he accepted the position of news editor of the Portland Telegram. In 1920 he was made assistant managing editor, which position he held until May, 1921, when he took over the Vancouver Evening Columbian, in connection with which he has made an excellent record. With a keen sense of news values and well defined ideas as to the makeup of a paper, he has developed the Columbian into one of the most valuable newspaper properties in this section of the state and is enjoying well merited success. Additional Comments: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, Pages 418-419 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/or/multnomah/bios/campbell431gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/orfiles/ File size: 4.4 Kb