Historic Hood River
Dethman Ranch
1-5-2018
Notes
Oops– sorry, I set the wrong time for the image this morning!
This image of the Dethman ranch is probably from the 1880s or 1890s. I believe his name was actually spelled “Chris”. We saw him at a more advanced age here.
Jeffrey Bryant
Christian Dethman, b. 1855, d. 1938, was married to Emma Jetter, b. 1866, d. 1954. Their first four children were Frank, b. 1885; Herman, b. 1888; Anna, b. 1890; and Alfred, b. 6 March 1892. It looks like the photo was taken 1892.
L.E.
I know where Dethman Ridge is. I assume the farm was/is in that area?
Norma
My mother was born and grew up on Dethman Ridge. Wonder how far this was from her parent’s ranch.
L.E.
I thought I had posted this on another Dethman photo page, but couldn’t find it. Chris Dethman’s brother John, settled in my area of Glenwood/Camas Prairie. Emma Jetter was working for John when she met his brother Chris. They were married and moved to the farm that Chris had started in Hood River.
Arlen Sheldrake
great baby buggy…..and photo for that matter….all dressed in their sunday best (how’s that for an old term).
Don Dillenbeck
The homestead in the picture went to Frank. Herman’s place was just to the southwest, which is behind the photographer.
Claude Goro Morita
Alfred Dethman knew a lot more about US history than the Morita family, his neighbors in Hood River Valley, Oregon. He advised my father, Mototsugu, not to go to our first concentration camp in 1942. He said he would hide our family in the mountains where he went elk hunting. My research in the US National Archives show that the US began planning war against Japan in 1898. See my book, Hideo Okamoto Exchange Prisoner and War Plan Orange, published by Univ of Hawaii Press. Others will follow. He knew what FDR was up to.
L.E.
Claude, I just ordered the book. Thank you. My granddaughter’s family was sent to Minidoka and last spring, during her school Spring Break I was going to take her there for a visit. Covid put an end to that trip.
Toni G. Muma-Garza
Just wondered what you know anything about the bridge at Dethman’s ridge. I remember daddy driving us across an old rickety bridge to get home one night covered with loose boards. Very scary. Don’t know if it was Dethman’s ridge, the bridge there, or the one at Toll Bridge Park. It was on the way home to Parkdale.
Thanks,
Don Dillenbeck
Toni, you memory is correst. The current bridge is the third bridge over Neal Creek. My mother was a Dethman and I lived on Dethman Ridge until I was 5. I will never forget that rattle of the wooden planks as you drove across it.