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FAMILY ALBUM · ARBON AREA

The Logan family.

The Logan family is documented on the valley map from land and family records. The original archive has no family history for them, so their pictures are kept together here. 2 newspaper clippings.

In the old papers

Clippings of newspaper articles that name the family, in the order they were printed. Each opens the story retold from it. All the clippings ↗

Skis, surprise parties and barbed-wire telephones in Arbon, 1914View photograph ↗
April 2, 1914

Skis, surprise parties and barbed-wire telephones in Arbon, 1914

At the end of a snowy winter in 1914, an American Falls store's monthly paper carried the Arbon news, almost certainly from Mrs. E. A. Logan, and the American Falls Press reprinted it.

From: Skis, surprise parties and barbed-wire telephones in Arbon, 1914 ↗
Mrs. Logan tells how the squatters took up Bannock ValleyView photograph ↗
March 29, 1917

Mrs. Logan tells how the squatters took up Bannock Valley

In 1917 Mrs. E. A. Logan wrote down how a handful of squatters settled Bannock Valley in the 1890s, and in 1920 she told it again as a birthday tribute to George Arbon.

From: Mrs. Logan tells how the squatters took up Bannock Valley ↗
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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.