Historic Hood River
Fab Four
2-19-2016
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Here is Hood River’s own “Passtime Quartet” in a 1904 portrait by W. D. Rogers. You may recognize some of the members:
- Charles Black
- Harry DeWitt
- Ed Dunbar
- Maltie Dukes
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Jeffrey Bryant
Harry DeWitt and Maltie Dukes are familiar names, but I don’t know the other two.
Charlott
Maltie Dukes was the son of Capt. John Henry Dukes, Civil War veteran his his wife Ursula. The family came from Illinois to Hood River. Maltie’s name was actually John Maltimore Dukes. He married Mabel Gladys Cockrell and eventually moved to Portland where in later years he was a crane operator for Willamette Iron and Steel. He had four children : Richard Maltimore, Helen Lucile, Dorothy Jane and Marian Ursula.
I think those are the biggest buttons I have ever seen.
Arthur
"Maltimore?" There must be a good story behind that name.
Jeffrey Bryant
Maltimore was his mother’s maiden name.
Judy
Hey! The first Barbershop Quartet in HR!
L.E.
From the July 06, 1900 HR Glacier:
Maltie Dukes is band major in the cadet band at the Oregon Agricultural college. He also hold a seargeantship in the college battalion, a position of promotion not often secured by students in their first year at college.