Historic Hood River
Pioneers
Notes
We have a couple of copies of this image of the September 2, 1924 meeting of the Hood River Pioneers Association, but the details are a bit sparse. One copy lists the attendees, but not in any discernible order:
Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Blythe, Mr. and Mrs. Sherrieb, Mr. and Mrs. Howe, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wallace, Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy, Mr. and Mrs. James Ingalls, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Copple, Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Joe D. Thomison, Mrs. Alma Howe, Mrs. E. R. Bradley, Mrs. Hinrichs, Mr. Troy Shelley, Mr. Olinger, Dr. Pineo, Mr. Kolstad, Mr. Robert Rand and Mr. C. A. Bell. Mr. Ollinger, the long time town constable, is identified as the man with the handlebar mustache in the back row on the right side. Another copy makes the easiest ID: Samuel Blythe is in the first row, 7th from the right. Mrs. John Hinrichs is in the first row, 9th from the right.
Based on this image I’m going to say Dr. Pineo is on the right staircase 2nd from the top.
You would think the Pioneer Association, whose purpose was to preserve the memory of the early settlers of the area would have done a better job of preserving the details?
At the time of the image, most of these pioneers had been living in the area for 30-40 years.
Dan
This a really great photo
kmb
It’s a good day when you post a previously unseen picture of one of my relatives. Mrs. John Hinrichs is my great-great grandmother, I believe she is the one in the front row, near center, in the lighter colored dress with striping at the bottom. This Pioneers Association event would mark 50 years from when she and her husband John first arrived in the Hood River area, with two small children in tow, Copley and Lenora. They moved to Hood River, March 23, 1874, and homesteaded a tract of land just south of Indian Creek. Their house was built near Indian Creek in the Barrett District and their children were pupils in that school.
Greg Oates
As a youngster, a few years back, the house directly east of the “new high-school” was known as the Hinrichs place. The family had a connection to the Dethman family.
kmb
Greg, there were two Hinrichs pioneer families in the Hood River area. Peter Detlef Hinrichs, the younger brother of John Hinrichs, arrived in Hood River first in 1873, John Hinrichs and family arrived the following year in 1874. Peter Hinrichs had a homestead along Indian Creek near what became the Barrett District. At one time the John Hinrichs family also lived in this area at one time according to Delia Coon’s notes, but as far as I know, John Hinrichs had moved from that area sometime before his death in 1915.
Peter Hinrichs died in 1910 in a horse related accident, and his wife passed three years later in 1913. They had eight children, including three sons. I believe that one of Peter Detlef’s grandsons (James Arthur?) was involved in the development of what is now the Indian Creek golf course, and from what I can tell, one of James’ sons is still living in that area. I suspect the “Hinrichs place” near the high school you are referring to was property from the Peter Hinrichs side of the family.
I don’t know anything about a connection between Christian Dethman and the Hinrich’s families, except that they were all Germans and that Christian Dethman and John Hinrichs were both involved in the First National Bank in Hood River (see 2-7-2012 post for “Show Me The Money”).
Lana Kay Luke
Where would I locate Mr. C.A. Bell in this photo? Is there an easy way to find him?
Arthur Babitz
Lana, we have one image of C. A. Bell identified, and it’s a pretty solid match to the man on the right flight of stairs, second from the right, wearing a dark bowler hat.