Joseph C. Rich, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Joseph C. Rich

Idaho politician

Date of Birth: 16-Jan-1841

Date of Death: 17-Oct-1908

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Joseph C. Rich

  • Joseph Coulson Rich (January 16, 1841 – October 17, 1908) was a Mormon settler of Idaho Territory and an Idaho state politician and judge. Rich was born in Nauvoo, Illinois, as the oldest son of the Latter Day Saint converts Charles C.
  • Rich and Sarah DeArmon Pea.
  • In 1847, the family traveled with Mormon pioneers from Nauvoo to the Salt Lake Valley.
  • In 1849, Charles Rich became an apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). In 1860, Joseph Rich traveled to England and Wales, where he was a missionary for the LDS Church until 1863.
  • During that time, his father was the president the LDS Church's European Mission, which was based in England.
  • Returning to Salt Lake City, Charles and Joseph Rich were recruited by Brigham Young to participate in the settlement of the Bear River Valley in Idaho Territory.
  • Under the leadership of Charles Rich, the settlers founded Paris, Idaho.
  • On January 25, 1867, Joseph Rich became a member of the Council of Fifty. In 1868, Rich wrote a famous article in the Deseret News in which he claimed that a group of settlers had seen "monsters" swimming in the waters of Bear Lake.
  • This was the beginning of the popular legend that the Bear Lake monster inhabits the lake. Rich was a Democrat and was twice elected to represent Bear Lake County in the Idaho Territorial Legislature.
  • He presided over the Democratic Party's Idaho state convention in 1894 and was elected as an Idaho state senator in 1896.
  • In 1898, he was elected as the judge of Idaho's fifth judicial district. In 1886, Rich married Ann Eliza Hunter, a daughter of Edward Hunter, a prominent leader in the LDS Church. Rich died in Centerville, Utah, and was buried in the Paris Cemetery in Paris.

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