Collection Summary
Information for Researchers
Scope and Content
Collection Summary
Collection Title: Loring Dumas Beckwith Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1902-1936
Collection Number: BANC MSS 70/60 c
Creator:
Beckwith, Loring Dumas, b. 1872
Extent:
Number of containers: 9 boxes, 1 oversize folder
Repository: The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please
consult the Library's online catalog.
Abstract: Letters, mss. of his writings and clippings, relating mainly to his career in
Stockton, Calif., as editor of The Forum and No Taxes, newspapers advocating Henry George's single tax
theory. A few letters and clippings concern his newspaper career in New Mexico and in Atascadero,
Calif., and the Atascadero Colony.
With these: some letters written to his father, Fred C.
Beckwith, 1892-1905, concerning mining interests in Arizona and California.
Languages Represented:
English
Information for Researchers
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for
publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the
reader.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Loring Dumas Beckwith Papers, BANC MSS 70/60 c, The Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley.
Scope and Content
Loring Dumas Beckwith was born about 1872 in Burlington (now called Longmont),
Colorado. He attended Brodhead (Wisconsin) High School and entered the University of Denver
in 1897, graduating in 1902. He was editor and proprietor of several newspapers in Colorado and New
Mexico before coming to California in 1913 where he became owner of the Santa Margarita
Index
and
Our California Home, newspapers which championed the Atascadero
Colony. Several years later he moved to Atascadero where he was News Editor of the
Atascadero
News. He moved to Stockton about 1920 and founded
The Forum, a
newspaper which advocated the economic philosophy of Henry George. About 1931 he
founded
No Taxes which also extolled the advantages of the single tax system. In
addition, he wrote numerous pamphlets on the subject, lectured, and was active in the Henry
George Foundation of America and other similar organizations.
Beckwith's papers were purchased from Doris Harris Autographs in 1969 with additional purchases from
Holmes Book Company and Kenneth Jones in the same year. A
few concern his career before coming to California and the Atascadero Colony but the bulk of the
collection relates to his career as Editor of
The Forum and
No Taxes. A
key to arrangement and partial list of correspondents follows.