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John Bidwell
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August 5, 1819
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April 4, 1900
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(80 years old)
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Chico
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John Bidwell was known throughout California and across the
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nation as an important pioneer, farmer, soldier, statesman, politician,
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prohibitionist and philanthropist. He is famous for leading one of the first
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emigrant parties, known as the Bartleson–Bidwell Party, along the California
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Trail, and for founding Chico, California.
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Bidwell was born in Chautauqua County, New York. The Bidwell
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family was originally from England and came to America in the colonial era. The Bidwell family moved to Erie, Pennsylvania
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in 1829, and then to Ashtabula County, Ohio in 1831. At age 17, he attended and
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shortly thereafter became Principal of Kingsville Academy.
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In 1841 Bidwell became one of the first emigrants on the
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California Trail. John Sutter employed Bidwell as his business manager shortly
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after Bidwell's arrival in California. Shortly after the James W. Marshall's
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discovery at Sutter's Mill, Bidwell also discovered gold on the Feather River
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establishing a productive claim at Bidwell Bar in advance of the California
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Gold Rush. Bidwell obtained the four square league Rancho Los Ulpinos land
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grant after being naturalized as a Mexican citizen in 1844, and the two square
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league Rancho Colus grant on the Sacramento River in 1845; later selling that
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grant and buying Rancho Arroyo Chico on Chico Creek to establish a ranch and
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Bidwell obtained the rank of major while fighting in the
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Mexican–American War. He served in the California Senate in 1849, supervised
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the census of California in 1850 and again in 1860. He was a delegate to the
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1860 national convention of the Democratic Party. He was appointed brigadier
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general of the California Militia in 1863. He was a delegate to the national
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In 1865, General Bidwell backed a petition from settlers at
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Red Bluff, California to protect Red Bluff's trail to the Owhyhee Mines of
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Idaho. The United States Army commissioned 7 forts for this purpose, and
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selected a site near Fandango Pass at the base of the Warner Mountains in the
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north end of Surprise Valley, and on June 10, 1865 ordered Fort Bidwell to be
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built there. The fort was built amid escalating fighting with the Snake Indians
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of eastern Oregon and southern Idaho.[6] It was a base for operations in the
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Snake War that lasted until 1868 and the later Modoc War. Although traffic
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dwindled on the Red Bluff route once the Central Pacific Railroad extended into
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Nevada in 1868, the Army staffed Fort Bidwell to quell various uprisings and
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disturbances until 1890. A Paiute reservation and small community maintain the
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name Fort Bidwell.
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Annie and John Bidwell
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His wife, Annie Kennedy Bidwell, was the daughter of Joseph
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C. G. Kennedy, a socially prominent, high ranking Washington official in the
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The Bidwells were married April 16, 1868 in Washington, D.C.
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with then President Andrew Johnson and future President Ulysses S. Grant among
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the guests. Upon arrival in Chico, the Bidwells used their mansion extensively
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for entertainment of friends. Some of the guests who visited Bidwell Mansion included
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President Rutherford B. Hayes, General William T. Sherman, Susan B. Anthony,
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Frances Willard, Governor Leland Stanford, John Muir, Joseph Dalton Hooker and
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In 1875 Bidwell ran for Governor of California on the
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presided over the Prohibition Party state convention in 1888 and was the
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Prohibition candidate for governor in 1880.[2]
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In 1892, Bidwell was the Prohibition Party candidate for President
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of the United States. The Bidwell/Cranfill ticket came in fourth place and
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received 271,058 votes, or 2.3% nationwide. It was the largest total vote and
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John Bidwell's autobiography, Echoes of the Past, was
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