The Swim family.
Photographs, land patents and family trees of the Swim family, arranged by generation, from the oldest to the youngest. Undated pictures keep their place in the family; dates and names are as recorded. 1 photograph · 2 land patents · 1 newspaper clipping.
The homesteading generation
The men and women who took up land in the valley. From the accounts of Swim.
View photograph ↗Frank Swim
“Frank Swim” is written on the print.
From: Swim ↗Land patents
Federal patents to the family’s land, from the General Land Office records, in date order.
View photograph ↗Homestead patent to Frank W. Swim, 1913
Federal land patent signed August 1, 1913 (BLM serial IDBL 0001257). Shown: the top of the first page.
Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records (public domain)
View photograph ↗Homestead patent to John W. Butler, 1913
Federal land patent signed May 26, 1913 (BLM serial IDBL 0001258). 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 ↗A doubting father from Kansas comes around on Arbon vegetables
Told by the old-timers that nothing would ripen at his altitude, Arbon homesteader G. S. Butler ended up supplying them with potatoes and won over the Kansas father who had predicted his failure.
From: A doubting father from Kansas comes around on Arbon vegetables ↗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.