The Orison family.
The Orison 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. 1 photograph · 1 land patent · 1 newspaper clipping.
Photographs
In date order; undated ones last.
View photograph ↗Charles Henry Orison, later in life
FamilySearch memory titled “Charles Henry Orison” (1882–1971); taken late in life.
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 Charles H. Orison, 1915
Federal land patent signed June 9, 1915 (BLM serial IDBL 0006165). Shown: the top of the first page.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)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 ↗
View photograph ↗Lightning misses Charles Orison, and the papers follow his family for eighty years
A near miss by lightning at Summit in 1911 is the first the valley papers say of Charles and Jean Ann Orison, whose family they followed between Arbon Valley and Logan until 1990.
From: Lightning misses Charles Orison, and the papers follow his family for eighty years ↗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.