Residents of Orient served actively in the World War of 1917-1918, including William H. Beebe, Jr., Frank G. Latham, Ivan R. Brooks, J. Edward Miller, Eugene M. Conklin, Burton F.S. Potter, George B. Dearborn, John I. Potter, Florence E. Douglass, R.N., Leland R. Potter, James Douglass, Frank J. Richard, Joseph Douglass, G. Lewis Tuthill, Nelson Douglass, Frank M. Taber, Louis D. Edwards, Edward S. Vail, Fred Habermann, George M. Vail, John W. Jones, Louis J. Vail, Henry Y. King, and Sheldon E. Vail.