The Jenson family.
Photographs, land patents and family trees of the Jenson family, arranged by generation, from the oldest to the youngest. Undated pictures keep their place in the family; dates and names are as recorded. 4 photographs · 1 land patent · 3 family trees.
The homesteading generation
The men and women who took up land in the valley. From the accounts of Joseph Christensen Jenson.
View photograph ↗Joseph C. and Alice Jenson
Identified by file name.
From: Joseph Christensen Jenson ↗The second generation
Children of the homesteaders. From the accounts of Clyde Jenson, Don Jenson.
View photograph ↗Clyde Jenson with violin
Identified by file name.
From: Clyde Jenson ↗
View photograph ↗Don and Connie jenson
Don and Connie jenson
From: Don Jenson ↗More family photographs
Pictures the records do not tie to one generation, in date order; undated ones last.
View photograph ↗Joseph C. Jenson's first homestead house, Arbon
FamilySearch memory titled "Joseph Christensen Jenson Homestead First House Arbon, Idaho". A recent photograph of the log house.
FamilySearch (uploaded by a relative)Land patents
Federal patents to the family’s land, from the General Land Office records, in date order.
View photograph ↗Homestead patent to Joseph C. Jenson, 1915
Federal land patent signed 18 February 1915 (BLM serial IDBL 0005691). Shown: the top of the first page.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)Family trees
The family-tree charts drawn for the family histories, oldest generation first.
View photograph ↗Family diagram from Joseph Christensen Jenson
Names and further details have not been identified in the original caption.
From: Joseph Christensen Jenson ↗
View photograph ↗Family diagram from Clyde Jenson
Names and further details have not been identified in the original caption.
From: Clyde Jenson ↗
View photograph ↗Family diagram from Don Jenson
Names and further details have not been identified in the original caption.
From: Don Jenson ↗Help put names to these pictures.
Many of these photographs still need names, places and dates. If you know who is in one, open it and choose “Help identify this photograph”. If your family keeps photographs of the valley, the archive would love to see them.