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WILLIAM F. RIGBY
  The True Aim of a Noble Man

By Cathryn Hendricks Housley, Idaho Falls, Idaho
Compiled by Lon & Echo Rigby & Diane Larsen Hendricks
Hard Cover 8.5 x 11  640 pages. 

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INTRODUCTION

Rigby was born in his grandparents’ home to his mother Margaret Littlewood on January 29, 1833, in Saddleworth, England, a small town near the manufacturing city of Manchester.

Factory worker and farmer, pioneer and missionary, civic leader and religious leader, prisoner and statesman, William F. Rigby lived in a world of contrasts. An energetic worker who never put off any task however daunting it may seem, Rigby’s list of accomplishments are impressive. He helped established over 44 communities in Utah and Idaho. He build up not only households, but ranches, nurseries, sawmills, mercantiles, and waterways in three different states. He served time both in the Utah Territorial Prison and in the Idaho State Legislature. For seventeen years, he labored as the founding father and bishop of Newton, Utah, and then served another seventeen years in the Bannock Stake presidency of Idaho, one of the largest stakes in the Church at the time.

In his personal life, Rigby was husband to seven wives, father to 38 children, and grandfather to 157 children.

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