April 15th 2007 Issue

Last Bite – The Driver Label

Jasper Dunham was an independent fruit broker in the 1920s until an early death cut short his fruit career.

Although a golf theme was used by the Dunham company, it is believed that the owner was not a golfer, but that he assumed the theme would be popular with buyers. The Driver brand label, which dates from the mid-1920s, was the only label ever used by Jasper S. Dunham of Yakima, Washington. Mr. Dunham was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1885 and was a 1908 Dartmouth College graduate. After marrying in 1910, Dunham and his new wife moved to Spokane, Washington, where he began a career selling life insurance and weather shipping coverage. During the course of underwriting […]

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