Historic Hood River
Moes and More Moes
10-3-2025
Notes
It’s always fun when people recreate photographs many years later. On the left we have a Deitz image of brothers Roger, Forrest and Mark Moe. They took great care with the later image, even matching the bow tie and the tilted heads.
The Deitz image is circa 1910, when Roger Moe graduated high school. I know there are still Moes in the valley– let’s hear some more about what life had in store for these three men.
Jeffrey Bryant
Although I am not directly related to the Moes, there is a tie to my family. Father Arthur Moe, publisher of the Hood River Glacier, was married to Matilda (Nettie) Walther. Her sister, Laura Walther, was married to Charles Clapp. Their son, Harry Clapp, was married to my grandmother’s aunt, Susie Vaughan.
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The Moe orchard still exists, at the top of the steep grade as you cross the HR going towards Odell.
She left a hefty sum t
to Riverside Church to fund youth activities which has been wisely
invited to continue on.
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invited = invested.
Drink coffee first!
Judy
The Moe boys went to live with the family of Ken Kirby. Leonard Sheirbon was one of them.
Jeffrey Bryant
1910 Mascot
Roger Waldo Moe
Roger Waldo Moe has held more offices and occupied more official positions than anybody else that has yet graduated from Hood River high school.
He was born at St. Paul, Minnesota, on June 10th, 1893. He attended a country school near this place until he finished the third grade. From here he went to Grand Forks, North Dakota, where Roger Waldo finished the fifth grade. Again they moved, this time still nearer their destination, to Dayton, Washington. Here he finished the sixth grade and then landed in Hood River, on May 1st, 1904, and entered the seventh grade and has since been known among his friends as good old jolly “Codge” Moe.
In his freshmen year he was elected class president and held this office during his freshman and sophomore years. In his freshman year, too, he was elected yell leader and ever since has been chief in our noise making department. In his sophomore year he was president of the literary society. In his junior year he was president of the student body, secretary of the literary society, business manager of the mascot and captain of the track team. In his senior year, he was again elected president of the student body. During these years he played on every football team that the high school has ever turned out and has been a member of every track team.
During his high school career he has been working studiously at the printing profession in his father’s office and intends some day to become an editor.