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Joel Ricks (February 18, 1804 – December 15, 1888) was a Mormon Pioneer and community leader who helped settled the Salt Lake Valley and Cache Valley, Utah. He was the father of Thomas E. Ricks. Early life Joel Ricks was born on February 18, 1804, near Donaldson Creek in Christian County, Kentucky (in an area now in Trigg County), the son of Jonathan Ricks and Temperance Edwards. On May 18, 1826, he married Eleanor Martin and continued to work on his father's farm. Pioneer While living in Illinois, Ricks met missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS Church) and was baptized in 1841. He eventually moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, to be with other members of his faith. Later persecutions forced him to leave Nauvoo and join the Mormon Pioneers in a migration to the Salt Lake Valley. Utah life Ricks helped lead his pioneer company and arrived in Bountiful in September 1848. He began farming in Centerville, and later started a tannery in Farmington. In 1852 he married another wife. He moved his family to Logan, Utah, in 1859, where he continued tanning and was involved with the area's first sawmill and gristmill. Ricks was active in the early Cache Valley community and helped establish the city of Logan. He was treasurer of Cache County for nearly twenty-five years and an officer in the Logan Canyon Road Company. He frequently provided equipment to the ongoing Mormon immigration and assisted in the construction of all the early community buildings. In the church, he was a longtime member of the Stake High Council and was ordained a Patriarch. He died at his home in Logan on December 15, 1888. References . Discover the Thomas E Ricks popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Thomas E Ricks books.
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Stand Up Fight Back
E.J. DionneOne of our most visible, trenchant, and witty political commentators, the author of the bestselling Why Americans Hate Politics, offers a tough critique of President George W. Bush...
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Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons
Charlotte GrayA captivating dual biography of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th centuryby awardwinning historian Charlotte Gray.Born into upperclass America in the ...
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Everyone Knows But You
Thomas E. RicksAn FBI agent finds himself in the insular world of a fishing village on the Maine coast where the rules are differentsometimes lethally so.After his wife and two children are kille...
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Rick Pauline v. Thomas E. Lee
Second District Court of Appeal of FloridaAppellant, petitioner below, is the holder of a license to sell alcoholic beverages at his place of business known as the Celebrity Club and located in Tampa. On April 13, 1961, pu...
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First Principles Summary
Instant-SummaryFirst Principles What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country A Comprehensive Summary It took more than a millennium before Europ...
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New Zealanders
Tom SainsburyA guide to the weird and wonderful inhabitants of New Zealand, and the places you'll find them.After years of mimicking celebrities and Kiwi stereotypes on social media, comedian T...
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Why the Right Went Wrong
E.J. DionneFrom the author of Why Americans Hate Politics, the New York Times bestselling and “notably fairminded” (The New York Times Book Review), story of the GOP’s fracturingfrom the 1964...
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Churchill y Orwell
Thomas E. RicksTanto George Orwell como Winston Churchill vieron peligrar su vida a mediados de la década de 1930: Orwell por un disparo en el cuello en la guerra civil española y Churchill en un...