Thomas Edwin Ricks
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Thomas Edwin Ricks (July 21, 1828, Western Kentucky – September 28, 1901) was a Mormon churchman and community leader.
He was more commonly known as Thomas E. Ricks, a prominent pioneer and settler of the West. He was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at age sixteen, attended the first conference of the same church and also helped in its construction of the Nauvoo, Illinois Temple. Ricks was also an influential church and community leader in both Utah and Idaho. He is known as the founder of Rexburg, Idaho, and participated in the founding of Ricks College (now Brigham Young University-Idaho). This school was named in his honor for a period of 99 years (1902-2001)[1].
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