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song writers and songs since 1860
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My Old Oregon Home. Words by Francis H. Edwards; music by Bayard E. Foote. Portland. Lipman Wolfe & Company. 1905.

The Beautiful Oregon Shore. Words and music by W. J. Crawford. Salem. Oregon Teachers' Monthly. 1903.

My Sweet Willamette Maid. Words and music by Nat Kren. Portland. Graves and Company. 1905.

Oregon, Our Oregon. Written for the Lewis and Clark Centennial, 1905. Words by Inez E. Adams Parker. Tune—"Maryland, My Maryland." Pioneer Transactions, 1928.

The Mission Bell. Words by Agnes D. Campbell; music by David B. Campbell. About 1902. Salem. The Western Songster. 1921.

This was the youthful production of two members of a talented family—the brother and sister of the great educator who was president of the University of Oregon. Agnes Campbell is now a novelist and artist. David Campbell is a well-known musician of the Pacific Coast and lives in Portland. When he was asked over the telephone when it was published, he had forgotten about the song until reminded of it by the inquiry. He was about ten years old when he composed the music for it.

Land of Oregon. Composed by Rob Roy Parrish; arranged by C. W. Kantner. Independence. Rob Roy Parrish. 1904.

Rob Roy Parrish, the harness maker and poet of Independence, is considered more fully in the chapter "Minor Poets from 1870 to 1900."

Our Good Old Pioneers. Words by Rob Roy Parrish; music by Z. M. Parvin. Independence. Rob Roy Parrish. 1906.

Z. M. Parvin was at one time head of the music department of Willamette University and president of the Northwestern Normal School of Music in Salem.

In Grand Old Oregon. Words by Rob Roy Parrish; music by Z. M. Parvin. Independence. Rob Roy Parrish. 1907.
The Pioneer Mother's Lullaby. Words by Mrs. Sarah