Frederick E. Lockley was a Portland, Oregon journalist, editor, author, and antiquarian book dealer. He worked on a number of Portland area magazines and newspapers and in the 1920s published a number of books on Oregon pioneers including "Oregon Trail Blazers" (1929) and "Oregon's Yesterdays" (1928).
In researching one of his Oregon pioneer books, Lockley came across the story of an unusual divorce of John and Martha Holman in Eastern Oregon in the 1840s. This is a typescript by Lockley describing an original document on the Holman divorce, but that document is not present. He talks about a man and wife, John and Martha Holman, who decided to divorce, but without a judge, there was some question as to the legality of their divorce.
Collection is open for research.
Provenance is unknown.
Riva Dean processed the collection in May 2009