Historic Hood River
Dr. Scobee Leading Parade
12-31-2020
Notes
I can’t quite figure out what the occasion is, but that is Dr. E.L. Scobee dressed as Daniel Boone leading the parade. Dr. Scobee was a local dentist, and was elected Hood River mayor in the 1919.
Charlott
E. L. Scobee = Ernest Linwood Scobee. He was the son of Samuel and Martha Candace Scobee, growing up in the mid-west. He worked as an engineer early on for the Michigan Central Railroad while studying dentistry at Northwestern Dental College in Chicago. He was born in 1874 and passed away in 1934.
His brother William Posey Scobee was married to Meta Lage of the Lage family of Pine Grove, though after some time they divorced.
L.E.
The man on the horse looks familiar.
starboard
Reminds of John Leland Henderson, surveyor, judge, attorney, 1851-1927.
L.E.
I am probably drifting away from the actual focus of this photo, but I thought I would mention that the Henderson brothers must have been a couple of tough guys.
I have read of John Leland doing early survey work in the Klickitat River area where the terrain is, to say the least, “hellish”.
His brother, Louis F. was a botanist and did plant collection in the area of Mt. Adams.
Both lived in Hood River. I couldn't find a photo of John L. but there is one of his brother.
John Leland:
https://sites.google.com/site/oregonpioneerobituaries/tillamook-county/john-leland-henderson
Louis F.
https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/henderson_louis_f_1853_1942_/#.X-8_Ay9h27M