Schedeen Family Photo

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Identifier

ghs0052

Description

Black and white photo, taken outside, in front of a house. House is wood, steps up to a porch. Thirteen people, seven adults and six children. Four men in suits standing, two of them holding a child. Three women in dresses sitting on the ground in front, one holding a young boy. Three young girls dressed in white sitting on the ground in front of the women. Handwritten on the back: "Ernest Schedeen family | Mels Roddun | 1912 | 2 from left on both" Handwritten in upper right corner "49.150 | G.H.S.| 0052". People: Schedeen, Ernest Roddun, Mels

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Date

1912

Subject

Families

Portrait photographs

Provenance

Donor unknown The Schedeen Family (Ernest, Wife Annie, and Daughters Ruth and Evelyn) settled in the Hillsview area around 1908. They later had four more children, Roland, Lorna, Marian, and Lester. Roland Schedeen was a local politician, serving in both the Oregon House of Representatives and the Senate, and served two four year terms on the Agricultural Stabilization and Con- servation Commission. Roland's wife Betty Moore was instrumental in the establishment of Mount Hood Community College. The Schedeen Family still own and operate a berry farm in the Cascade foothills and two retail businesses in Gresham and Boring.

Type

StillImage

Contributor

Gresham Historical Society

Extent

Print, Photographic

Location

Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States

Item sets

Gresham Heritage