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Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Weber County, Utah. Official Website The Weber Valley was visited by many trappers seeking beavers and muskrats along its streams. One of the first on record reached the area in 1824, traveling from Fort Bridger. He reported that the Bear River flowed into a salt bay. Peter Skene Ogden passed through in 1826, representing the Hudso...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cache County, Utah. Official Website Indigenous peoples occupied the valleys of present Cache County. The valley served the Plains Indians and the Shoshone. Trappers and explorers visited the area in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. John Henry Weber and Jim Bridger came through in 1824; Peter Skene Ogden and James Beckwourth ...
The Intermountain Indian School (1950–1984) was a Native American boarding school in Brigham City, Utah. This was originally the site of Bushnell Army Hospital. It operated from 1942 to 1946 and served wounded soldiers of World War II. Brigham City had donated the land to the Federal government in order to get a hospital constructed. Doctors, nurses, military personnel, wounded patients, and t...
Wikipedia Utah State University (USU) is a public research university in Logan, Utah. Founded in 1888 as Utah's agricultural college, USU focused on agriculture, domestic arts, and mechanic arts. The university now offers programs in liberal arts, engineering, business, economics, natural resource sciences, as well as nationally ranked elementary & secondary education programs. The university...
Wikipedia Brigham Young University (often referred to as BYU or, colloquially, The Y) is a private research university located in Provo, Utah, United States. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and, excluding online students, is the largest of any religious university and the 3rd largest private university in the United States, with 29,672...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Salt Lake City or Salt Lake County, Utah. Official City Website Official County Website Salt Lake County occupies the Salt Lake Valley, as well as parts of the surrounding mountains, the Oquirrh Mountains to the west and the Wasatch Range to the east (essentially the entire Jordan River watershed north of the Traverse Mountains). In...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Utah County, Utah. Official Website The legislature of the State of Deseret created a county on January 31, 1850, to govern the civic affairs of Utah Valley, which by the 1850s was bustling with newly arrived settlers. The county name derived from the valley name, which derived from the Spanish name (Yuta) for the Ute Indians. The ...
1850=This project covers all Mormon pioneers that arrived in Utah in 1850.=We Need Your Help=Please collaborate on a specific year's (1847-1868) project page. While viewing a Mormon pioneer's profile and under the "More Actions" link choose "Add to Project" and this will allow you to add that pioneer to any of the the Mormon Pioneer projects. =How to Help= * 1850 Arrivals <<- Click to Edit * 18...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sanpete County, Utah. Official Website The Great Basin was occupied by the Mormon pioneers beginning in summer 1847. The first few years were spent establishing a base in the Great Salt Lake Valley, then groups were sent - usually by directive of the church leaders - to settle the more outlying areas. In 1849 two Ute chiefs traveled...
Wikipedia The University of Utah (also referred to as the U, the U of U, or Utah) is a public coeducational space-grant research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. As the state's flagship university, the university offers more than 100 undergraduate majors and more than 92 graduate degree programs. Graduate studies include the S.J. Quinney College of Law and the School of Medi...
1847=This project covers all 2,157 Mormon pioneers that arrived in Utah in 1847.=We Need Your Help=Please collaborate on a specific year's (1847-1868) project page. While viewing a Mormon pioneer's profile and under the "More Actions" link choose "Add to Project" and this will allow you to add that pioneer to any of the the Mormon Pioneer projects. =How to Help= 1847 Mormon Pioneer Arrivals <--...
1863=This project covers all Mormon pioneers that arrived in Utah in 1863.=We Need Your Help=Please collaborate on a specific year's (1847-1868) project page. While viewing a Mormon pioneer's profile and under the "More Actions" link choose "Add to Project" and this will allow you to add that pioneer to any of the the Mormon Pioneer projects. =How to Help= * 1863 Arrivals <<- Click to Edit * 18...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Kane County, Utah. Official Website The county was created on January 16, 1864 by the Utah Territory legislature and was named for Col. Thomas L. Kane, a friend of the Mormon settlers in the 1840s and 1850s. The Mormons first settled in the county in 1846. Adjacent Counties Iron County Garfield County San Juan County Washi...
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 Tooele County, Utah. Official Website The county was created in 1850 and organized the following year. Evidence of several indigenous Native American groups has been found in Tooele County, but only the western Shoshone-speaking Goshute tribe claim the desolate lands as their ancestral home. The Goshute's traditional territory incl...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Piute County, Utah. Official Website Paiute County was formed on January 16, 1865 and was named for the Paiute Indian Tribe. Adjacent Counties Garfield County Beaver County Sevier County Wayne County Towns & Communities Alunite Angle Bullion Falls Circleville Greenwich Junction (County Seat) Kimberly Ki...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Garfield County, Utah. Official Website The Utah Territory legislature created the county on March 9, 1882, with areas partitioned from Iron County. It was named for James A. Garfield, the twentieth President of the United States. Adjacent Counties Beaver County Piute County Iron County Kane County San Juan County Wayn...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wayne County, Utah. Official Website Due to its remoteness and harsh terrain, settlements did not appear in the future Wayne County until the 1880s. By 1892, there was enough settlement and enough interest in a separate county (due mainly to the difficulty of accessing the Piute County seat), that Utah Territory passed an act (effec...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in San Juan County, Utah. Official Website The Utah Territory authorized creation of San Juan County on February 17, 1880 and was named for the San Juan River, itself named by Spanish explorers (in honor of Saint John). Adjacent Counties Grand County Mesa County, Colorado Emery County Wayne County Montrose County, Colorado ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Emery County, Utah. Official Website Occupation of the San Rafael region dates back thousands of years to include people of the Desert Archaic Culture who were followed by those of the Fremont culture who inhabited present-day Emery County through the sixth through thirteenth centuries AD; evidence of their civilizations is extant i...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Grand County, Utah. Official Website The European-based settlement of the area began with arrival of Mormon pioneers in 1847. By 1855 they had sent missionary-settlers into eastern Utah Territory. An Elk Mountain Mission was established, but closed after a few months due to Indian raids. For several decades thereafter, the future Mo...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Daggett County, Utah. Official Website Due to dangerous roads, mountainous terrain, and frequent bad weather preventing travel via a direct route, 19th century residents in the north portion of Uintah County had to travel 400 to 800 miles on both stagecoach and rail to conduct business in Vernal, the county seat, a mere 50 miles awa...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Duchesne County, Utah. Official Website Much of Duchesne County was part of the Uintah Reservation, created 1861 by US President Abraham Lincoln as a permanent home of the Uintah and White River Utes. Later the Uncompahgre Utes were moved to the Uintah and newly created Uncompahgre Indian reservations from western Colorado. At the t...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wasatch County, Utah. Official Website On January 17, 1862, the Utah Territory legislature created the county. The county was named for a Ute Indian word meaning mountain pass or low place in the high mountains. The first settlers were Mormon pioneers, in 1859, settling near present Heber City, Midway, and Charleston. Adjacent Co...