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“The Deacon”

11-2-2022
“The Deacon”

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Notes

This is an Ella May Davidson portrait of her father, Charles Davidson, who was also known as “the Deacon.” I don’t know if that was because of a religious affiliation or just a term of endearment. We have an approximate date for this one because he is reading a copy of “The Twentieth Century Magazine” which says April 1912 on it spine.

We know in his younger years Charles Davidson customized and painted buggies and wagons in Ohio. I believe he moved to Hood River to help his son Horatio operate his businesses.

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  1. Dale Nicol

    2nd November 2022 @ 07:02 AM

    Incredible details in this photo!

  2. Jeff Bryant

    2nd November 2022 @ 07:58 AM

    Charles Davidson was born in 1840 and died at Hood River in 1925. He was Secretary of the Davidson Fruit Company.

  3. L.E.

    2nd November 2022 @ 09:06 AM

    I agree with Dale. The detail is amazing.

  4. Cecelia

    2nd November 2022 @ 05:29 PM

    Would love a closer look at some of the photos behind him. One looks quite modern; wonder if some of the others might be in museum collection.

  5. ArthurB

    2nd November 2022 @ 06:57 PM

    Cecilia, the details on the bookshelf are a bit blurry. The only book title I can make out is “The Great Debate”. There is a Davidson family photo we definitely have in the collection. And then there are the odd cards he had jammed between books. A fun detail is the old telephone on the wall behind his head.

  6. L.E.

    2nd November 2022 @ 08:10 PM

    The family photo on the second shelf is photo http://historichoodriver.com/index.php?showimage=3000

    I wonder what he did to his finger?

  7. nels

    2nd November 2022 @ 10:30 PM

    A reminder that before radios and all the other electronics we have for news,

    books, letters, and occasional newspapers were the source of most all

    information. Even magazines were a rarity. And this one has similarities to

    National Geographic.

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