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History of Early Pioneer Families of Hood River, Oregon.
Compiled by Mrs. D.M. Coon

RECORD CROWD AT PIONEER MEETING, 1927

The Hood River County Pioneers Association, members of which met in their annual reunion at the Asbury Methodist Church and Library Hall Saturday, will have the following officers again the coming year: Mrs. E.E. Lage, president, and H.L. Howe, Secretary-treasurer.
The meeting drew the largest attendance in the history of the body. Many former pioneers were here from Portland, The Dalles and other towns. The basket lunch was spread at the parlors of Asbury Church. All who have lived in the mid-Columbia 50 years or more ate at one table. The 40 year pioneers at another, as did those who have been in the community more than 30 years.
Addresses were delivered by Mrs. Lulu Crandall and Judge Fred Wilson of The Dalles, Mrs. T.R. Coon, Rev. Troy Shelley and Mr. Howe. Mr. Shelley sang old time songs.
Mrs. Crandall was elected queen of the pioneers. Mrs. Crandall, who has lived in the mid-Columbia country for 69 years, has done more than any other pioneer in preserving a history of the early day residents.
Mrs. T.R. Coon was re-elected historian of the Hood River society. Mrs. J.W. Ingalls and M.D. Odell are her assistants. Mrs. Bert Stranahan is custodian of the society. Mrs. Benton Mays presented the society with two valuable scrap books containing clippings of historical events.
Those who registered at the reunion were: Mr. and Mrs. Dorrance Smith, Astoria, Mrs. Eleanor LaFrance, Mrs. A.L. Parker, Eugene Bush, Mr. and Mrs. T.R. Coon, C.H. Temple, Paul Temple, Mrs. J.H. Frary, Mrs. Nannie B. Fletcher, all of Portland, Mr. and Mrs. T.F. Johnson, Mrs. N.B. Whalen, L.G. Morgan, F.H. Stanton, Mr. and Mrs. J.I. Miller, Mrs. Jennie Hunt, Mrs. James Belchor, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wilkinson, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Prather, Mr. and Mrs. A.I. Mason, Mrs. M.E. Forrest, C.E. Chaffee, Mrs. Lorena Larson, Sanford Smith, Mr. and Mrs. S.E. Bartmess, Mrs. G.S. Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Stewart, C.D. Hinrichs, J.H. Gerdes, Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Foss, Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Koberg, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Ehrck, Mrs. Baldwin Jones, E.R. Bradley, Mr. and Mrs. H.F.J. Sieverkropp, Mr. and Mrs. H.O. Sieverkropp, Mr. and Mrs. I.D. Parkins, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hawkes, W.B. Shute, Mrs. Carrie Coe, Mrs. M. Disbrow, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Stranahan, Mrs. G.W. Kennedy, Leslie Butler, Rev. and Mrs. Troy Shelley, Mr. and Mrs. Hans Lage, Mr. and Mrs. E.E. Lage, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Howe, CE. Bowerman, Mrs. W. Foss, Eunice Odell Wirrick, Marie Kemp, Mrs. J.C. Boggs, Wm. Crapper, E.D. Button, Margaret Walter, Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Marshall, Mrs. M.C. Marshall, Mrs. J.A.. Mohr, P.H. Mohr, Mr. and Mrs. L.D. Boyed, Mr. and Mrs. B.H. Lage, Mr. and Mrs. E.A. Franz, Kent Shoemaker, Mr. and Mrs. Borbett Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. D.G. Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. H.J. Frederick, J.R. Crosby, Mrs. Gertrude B. Ingalls Jack Bagley, J.W. Morton, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Franz, Mr. and Mrs. N. Tostevin, Mr. and Mrs. M.D. Odell, Mrs. Rachael Hershner, Mrs. Alicia Shoemaker, Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Wickham, Mrs. Ida Crapper, Mrs. Nottie Mays, Mrs. F.H. Button, Mrs. Alma Howe, S.F. Blythe, Miss Ella May Davidson, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. W. Reed, Mrs. S.J. Frank, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Wallace, Mrs. M.A. Scobee, W.E. Neff, Mr. and Mrs. L.M. Baldwin, Mr. and Mrs. Art Howell, Miss Susie Mohr, Mr. and Mrs. James Stranahan, Mrs. J.H. Shoemaker, J.T. Nealeigh, Mrs. Chas. Rathbun, Mr. and Mrs. W.F. Laraway, Mrs. August Bosee, all of Hood River, Mr. and Mrs. Phil Parrott, Mrs. Alice Williams of Parkdale, Mrs. Lulu D. Crandall, Mr. and Mrs. R.E. Williams Mr. and Mrs. James B. Palmer, Judge Fred Wilson, Mrs. Bonton Mays of The Dalles, Mr. and Mrs. L.H. Arneson of Corbett.