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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jerome County, Idaho. Official Website The county was created by the Idaho Legislature on February 8, 1919, by a partition of Lincoln County. It was named after either Jerome Hill, a developer of the North Side Irrigation Project, his son-in-law Jerome Kuhn, or his grandson Jerome Kuhn, Jr. The Minidoka Relocation Camp, one of ten ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bear Lake County, Idaho . Official Website Peg-Leg Smith established a trading post on the Oregon Trail from 1848-1850 near Dingle. The first settlement in the Bear Lake Valley was Paris, settled by Mormon pioneers led by Charles Rich on September 26, 1863. Thirty families comprised the original settlement. In the spring of 1864, Mo...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Gem County, Idaho. Official Website Named for the state nickname, "Gem State," the county was established on March 15, 1915. Fur trappers were in the area as early as 1818, and Alexander Ross explored Squaw Creek in 1824. Prospectors and miners moved through the county in 1862 en route to the gold rush in the Boise Basin around Idah...
Wikipedia Designed to capture contributors and participants in America's expansion westward from the east coast. Including politicians, newsmen, explorers, founding fathers, frontiersmen, mountainmen, railroadmen, lawmen, outlaws, gunfighters, etc. Notable people of the American Old West Artists Frederic Remington - Artist who specialized in the American Old West Explorers Saca...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Elmore County, Idaho. Official Website Overview Elmore County was established February 7, 1889. It is named after the Ida Elmore mines, the area's greatest silver and gold producer of the 1860s, located near Silver City in Owyhee County. Construction of what would become Mountain Home Air Force Base was begun in October 1942, 12 ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Ada County, Idaho. Official Website Ada County was created by the Idaho Territorial Legislature on December 22, 1864. It is named for Ada Riggs, the daughter of H.C. Riggs, a member of the legislature; he established the county and was a co-founder of Boise. Ada County is along the historic Oregon Trail . Thousands of pioneers pa...
Idaho Pioneers will include persons who lived in Idaho before Statehood, 3 July 1890. If you so desire, "The Idaho State Genealogical Society" issues certificates to those who can prove their descent from a Pioneer. There are 3 different certificates you can apply for:*Pioneer certificates are issued to direct descendants of persons who lived in Idaho before Statehood, 3 July 1890. Applicants m...
This cemetery is located on 1205 North Washington Avenue, Emmett, Gem County, Idaho. It's also known as Martinville Cemetery and Riverside Cemetery . Billion Graves Find a Grave
This project is for those buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Pocatello, Bannock County, Idaho. Mountain View Cemetery is 110 years old and is the final resting place of over 20,000 of the area's residents with plots dating to the 1800s. The cemetery is also known as Mt. Moriah Cemetery . Notable Interments Eddy Addy (1838-1910) - MLB Player James Henry Brady (1862-1918) - Governor of ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Clark County, Idaho. Official Website Establishment of stage coach stops along the route between Salt Lake City and the Montana mine were established at Beaver Canyon and Dry Creek in 1864. Originally part of Alturas County, both locations were transferred to Oneida County in 1877. They became part of Bingham County at its creation ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bonner County, Idaho. Official Website History Bonner County was formed on February 21, 1907. It was named for travel entrepreneur Edwin L. Bonner, a ferry operator. In 1864, the Idaho Legislature created the counties of Lah-Toh and Kootenai. Kootenai County initially covered all of present-day Bonner and Boundary counties and a ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bonneville County, Idaho. History Bonneville County was established in 1911 and named after Benjamin Bonneville (1796–1878), a French-born officer in the U.S. Army , fur trapper , and explorer in the American West . Benjamin was the son of Nicholas Bonneville of France . His father was an Illuminati member and wrote the "Illuminat...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Valley County, Idaho. Official Website Established in 1917, it was named after the Long Valley of the North Fork of the Payette River, which extends over 30 miles from Payette Lake at McCall south to Cascade to Round Valley. The valley was formerly a summer pasture for livestock from the Boise Valley. Since the completion of the Cas...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Teton County, Idaho. The county was established in 1915 and was named after the Teton Mountains to the east. Adjacent Counties Fremont County Madison County Bonneville County Teton County, Wyo. Communities Bates Cache Clementsville Darby Driggs (County Seat) Felt Tetonia Victor Links Wikiped...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Power County, Idaho. Official Website The county was created by the Idaho Legislature on January 30, 1913 and it is named for an early hydroelectric power plant (1902) at the American Falls. Adjacent Counties Bannock County Oneida County Cassia County Blaine County Bingham County Cities & Communities American...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Minidoka County, Idaho.= Official Website =Minidoka County was created by the Idaho Legislature on January 28, 1913. The name Minidoka is of Dakota Sioux origin meaning "a fountain or spring of water." Adjacent Counties * Cassia County * Jerome County * Lincoln County * Blaine County Cities *Acequia*Burley (part)*Heyburn*Minidoka*Paul...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lewis County, Idaho.= Official Website =Established in 1911, it was named after the explorer Meriwether Lewis.Most of the county is within the Nez Perce Indian Reservation, though Native Americans comprise less than 6% of the county population. Similar to the opening of lands in Oklahoma, the U.S. government opened the reservation for...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lemhi County, Idaho. The county was established in 1869, named after Fort Lemhi (or Limhi), a remote Mormon missionary settlement from 1855 to 1858 in Bannock and Shoshone territory. The Lewis and Clark Expedition entered Idaho on August 12, 1805 at Lemhi Pass in present-day Lemhi County. Meriwether Lewis and three other members of ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Idaho. Official Website The county was established in 1913 and named after Thomas Jefferson, the third U.S. President. The Salt Lake City to Virginia City Stagecoach was established through the area in 1864. Stops were established at Market Lake (Roberts), Sand Hole (Hamer), and Camas. Small settlements grew up ar...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Idaho County, Idaho. Official Website It was established by the Washington Territorial Legislature in 1862 and was named for a steamer called Idaho that was launched on the Columbia River in 1860. Adjacent Counties Clearwater County Missoula County, Montana Nez Perce County Adams County Valley County Wallowa County,...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Fremont County, Idaho. Official Website Fremont County was established in 1893 when Bingham County was partitioned. It is named for John C. Frémont. The first fur trapping operation by a United States fur company west of the Rocky Mountains occurred in 1810 when Andrew Henry established a fort in the fall of 1810 on Conant Creek in ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Franklin County, Idaho. Official Website Idaho's oldest permanent non-native settlement occurred at Franklin on April 14, 1860 when Mormon settlers led by Thomas S. Smart established the settlement at its present location on the Cub River. It was the seventh and northernmost settlement in the Cache Valley at the time of its settleme...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Clearwater County, Idaho. Official Website Overview The Clearwater River and Lolo Pass, in the southeast corner of the county, were made famous by the exploration of Lewis and Clark in the early 19th century. Following an arduous trek through the Bitterroot Mountains, suffering through a mid-September snowstorm and near starvation...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Caribou County, Idaho. Official Website History Robert Stuart explored the area of Soda Springs in 1812. Donald Mackenzie also explored the area in 1819. The explorers were followed by trappers, missionaries, and emigrants that would travel through on the Oregon Trail. Soda Springs' namesake springs were an attraction for the trap...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Boundary County, Idaho. Official Website History Boundary County was formed on January 23, 1915 from Bonner County. It was named Boundary County because it lies on the border of Canada , Washington and Montana . Boundary County has 7 election precincts: Bonners Ferry, Copeland, Kootenai, Moyie, Naples, North Bonners Ferry, and Va...