James C. Olson

(1917- 2005) lived in Lincoln. Educator, historian, administrator, college president, served as chancellor and president with the University of Missouri four-campus system from 1968 to 1984, author or co-author of nearly ten books and contributor to history journals, encyclopedias, and newspapers; previously served as director of Nebraska State Historical Society for ten years and as an academic administrator at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for 12 years. Consult Sunday /Omaha/World Herald, June 1, 1997, pp. E-1, E-4 and Contemporary Authors—New Revision Series, Vol 86 (Gale, 2000) 259-260 and UNL Nebraska Alumnus, Fall 2002, p. 20 and Who’s Who in America, Vol 2 (2003) 3953 and obituaries in Kansas City Star, August 19, 2005, p. B-3 and Omaha World Herald, August 26, 2005, p. B-4.

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