Historic Hood River
Herman Kresse and Carriage
3-21-2013
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This is Herman Kresse at the reins of his carriage. He was mayor of Hood River through much of the Great Depression, but here he is as a young man.
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spinsur
that’s a fine carriage, and a tall proud horse to go with it!
l.e.
I recognized him as soon as I opened the photo.
Looks just like the guy with the fine looking car in #298.
He must have had an eye for good quality.
Probably why he lived in Hood River.
Judy
Related to the Kresse’s that had the pharmacy?
Jeffrey Bryant
He was a druggist.
l.e.
The spelling is atrocious, but this Jan. 11, 1913 Oregonian article tells about the hazards Herman Kresse had to deal with as a druggist.
COCAINE IS ROBBER’S LOOT
Hood ISiver Pharmacist Held Up by
Slave to the Drug Habit.
HOOD RIVER, Or, Jan. 10. (Spe
cial.) L. W. Wright, a janitor of this
city, craving cocaine, to which drug
he is a slave, last night entered the
drug store of C. A- Plath and, holding
up the clerk. Herman Kresse, securea
a large quantity of the drug.
right entered the store and rushed
at Kresse with one of his hands in
his coat pocket, which was made to
bulge as if he had a pistol concealed
there. Altnough the man had no gun,
the drug clerk obeyed his orders when
the former commanded him’ to raise
his hands and show him where all of
toe cocaine and morphine in the bouse
was.
Securing a handful of the drug, the
man rushed from the building. The
pharmacy clerk called Policeman Rob
ert Stone, who went to Wright’s little
shack in the east end of the city and
arrested him. a
Scott
My wife Lucy is the granddaughter of Herman Kresse. She has told me many stories about him and her grandmother. Their home overlooking the Columbia River is still majestic and well maintained by coincidentally one of my wife’s classmates from Hood River High School.