E. L. (Edward Lloyd) Lomax

Edward Lloyd Lomax (1852–1916) is known today for Genealogy of the Virginia Family of Lomax..., published in 1913. The book gathers family records and historical notes about the Lomax family in Virginia, and it remains the work most clearly associated with his name.

Library records also connect him with The Girdle Book, linked to the subtitle Westward around the world, and with a travel-themed work, Sights and scenes from the car windows of the world's pictorial line, Union Pacific, the overland route, Kansas City to San Francisco. Taken together, these titles suggest an author interested both in heritage and in the experience of travel.

Reliable biographical detail about his life appears limited in the sources reviewed, so it is safest to remember him chiefly through the books he left behind: a family historian and compiler whose work helped preserve names, connections, and stories that might otherwise have been lost.