Al Van Dahl
Al Van Dahl (February 4, 1884 – March 4, 1954) was a Dutch-born American stamp collector and philatelic publisher.
Biography
Born in Amsterdam, Van Dahl attended the University of Uppsala in Sweden and Heidelberg University in Germany, before emigrating to the United States in 1911 and working for a daily newspaper in Chicago.
Van Dahl moved to Oregon in 1920, acquiring a weekly newspaper at Republic, Washington and the Baker Herald, which he sold in 1925. Afterwards, he was briefly employed by the Capital Journal and Oregon Statesman at Salem, eventually settling down in Mill City and starting the Mill City Logue in 1926, a weekly that ran until 1933.
An avid stamp collector, Van Dahl began publishing philatelic columns in the Logue in May 1931, which in 1933 turned into the semi-weekly Western Stamp Collector, the only regular philatelic publication west of the Rocky Mountains at its time. He also published the philatelic journals Covers and Postal Stationery and The Masonic Philatelist.
Van Dahl was elected to the American Philatelic Society Hall of Fame in 1954.
Works cited
- "Growing Business Received Start From Depression," Albany Democrat-Herald, Nov. 13, 1937. https://www.newspapers.com/article/albany-democrat-herald-al-van-dahls-sto/32757498/
- "Al Van Dahl, Publisher of Stamp Magazine, Dies," Albany Democrat-Herald, Mar. 4, 1954. https://www.newspapers.com/article/albany-democrat-herald-obituary-for-al-v/18295684/
- The American Philatelic Society Hall of Fame. https://classic.stamps.org/HOF-1950#VanDahl
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