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I recently found this old newspaper clipping and old pictures in some family records. My grandfather Dobson was a lumber buyer for Drexel Furniture Company at their Marion, NC plant in the 1930's and 1940's. According to the newspaper article, Drexel Furniture made a desk for Gen. MacArthur. These old photos belonged to my grandfather Dobson, and were in a photo book with a number of other photos of the Drexel Furniture plant in Marion.
This is a close-up of the desk, with the General's name and four stars inlaid into the wood.
This is a photo of the crowd (Drexel employees and family?) at the time the desk was ready to be sent. My grandfather is the officer standing at the end of the desk with his back to the camera (you can see the "CD" arm band on his left arm). Not only was my grandfather the lumber buyer for Drexel, he was also Captain of the local "home guard" during the war. He was a WW I veteran, and took his duties as Captain of the home guard very seriously. I have a "drill book" he kept from the time the guard was organized in Marion until the time it was disbanded after the war. It is interesting reading - but I'm getting off topic with this.
My question is, does anyone know if this desk ever made it to General MacArthur? And, if it did, is it still in existence somewhere?
I recently found this old newspaper clipping and old pictures in some family records. My grandfather Dobson was a lumber buyer for Drexel Furniture Company at their Marion, NC plant in the 1930's and 1940's. According to the newspaper article, Drexel Furniture made a desk for Gen. MacArthur. These old photos belonged to my grandfather Dobson, and were in a photo book with a number of other photos of the Drexel Furniture plant in Marion.
This is a close-up of the desk, with the General's name and four stars inlaid into the wood.
This is a photo of the crowd (Drexel employees and family?) at the time the desk was ready to be sent. My grandfather is the officer standing at the end of the desk with his back to the camera (you can see the "CD" arm band on his left arm). Not only was my grandfather the lumber buyer for Drexel, he was also Captain of the local "home guard" during the war. He was a WW I veteran, and took his duties as Captain of the home guard very seriously. I have a "drill book" he kept from the time the guard was organized in Marion until the time it was disbanded after the war. It is interesting reading - but I'm getting off topic with this.
My question is, does anyone know if this desk ever made it to General MacArthur? And, if it did, is it still in existence somewhere?