Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
A894.2Description
Mounted full-length studio portrait of a man. He is identified on the reverse as Fred Burkhardt Sr. who married Ida Dearborn. He was a jeweler in Aurora, NV who moved to Lone Pine, CA. Photographer was Dowe Photo.
Fred Burkhard's father and mother were one of the oldest families in Lone Pine. They came before the earthquake of 1972. Fred Burkhard was a jeweler and went to Aurora, NV. There he met Ida Dearborn and married her. The Luther Henry Dearborn family had been living in the town of Aurora for many years. Ida Dearborn was born there in 1866. Their three sons were born in Aurora: Fred in 1882, Henry in 1884, and Oscar in 1886. The family moved to Lone Pine in 1889.Collection
Della Dearborn Smith Collection