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Jess Whitaker and Floyd Henderson with dray in front of telephone office, Regent, N.D.
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| Title | Jess Whitaker and Floyd Henderson with dray in front of telephone office, Regent, N.D. |
| Date of Original | 1913 |
| Description | Jess Whitaker and Floyd Henderson sit on a dray drawn by two horses in blankets. Bags, boxes, and crates sit on the dray. The Regent telephone office is in the background. |
| Ordering Information | http://history.nd.gov/archives/whatphotos.html |
| General Subject | Animals
People
Transportation
Weather
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| Subject (LCTGM) | Horses
Sleds & sleighs
Boxes
Bags
Crates
Telephone companies
Snow
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| Personal Name | Whitaker, Jess
Henderson, Floyd
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| Location | Regent (N.D.)
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| Decade | 1910-1919
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| Item Number | 00032-DU-27-14 |
| Format of Original | Photographic prints
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| Notes | Photographer unknown.
Title created by staff. |
| Biography/History | Floyd Henderson taught school in Melby in 1914. He received special permission to teach from the superintendent of schools because of a teacher shortage. In 1915, Henderson attended Valley City Normal School.
Jesse Whitaker was born in 1886 in southern Indiana. At the age of 18, he moved to Michigan. In 1907 he returned to Indiana, then briefly moved to Beach, N.D. with the rest of his family who homesteaded there. He was married to Edith Henderson in 1908 in Michigan. In 1910, the Whitakers moved to Regent, N.D. where Jesse had a dray business plus worked as a bulk agent for Standard Oil. The family moved to Dunn Center in 1914, where he worked for Standard Oil again until 1949. During the height of his dray business in Dunn Center, Jesse had 4 men working for him, including his brother in law Floyd Henderson. Jesse and Edith had six children: Kenneth, Era, Alice, Sarah, Wilbur, and Omar. Jesse Whitaker died in 1975. |
| Bibliographic Reference | Dauntless Dunn : stories of some of its early settlers, 1970. p. 143-144, 378. |
| Repository Institution | State Historical Society of North Dakota
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| Repository Collection | Oral History Project Photograph Collection 00032
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| Credit Line | State Historical Society of North Dakota (00032-DU-27-14) |
| Rights Management | Copyright status unknown. |
| Digital ID | sh00032DU2714 |
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