Famous People who lived in Idaho
Sacajawea
Known as Sakakawea and Sacagawea. She was a Lemhi Shoshone woman and the daughter of a Shoshone chief. Sacajawea kidnapped by the Hidatsa and a young girl. Sacajawea married Toussaint Charbonneau. She became an interpreter and guide for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark when they were heading to the Oregon Coast. They needed her to communicate with other Native Americans in order to have supplies. During the expedition, she gave birth to her son Little Pomp. Thanks to Sacajawea’s efforts the expedition made it to the Oregon Coast. Her legacy moves on as a Native American woman who guided Meriwether Lewis and William Clark in an adventure of a lifetime.
Gutzon Borglum
American artist and sculptor. Gutzon Borglum sculpted saints and apostles for the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York. He was a patriot who believed that the monuments weren’t owned. He created art that memorialized American achievements. They included General Philip Sheridan Memorial in Washington D.C., General Robert E. Lee in Stone Mountain, Georgia; Abraham Lincoln’s head at the Capitol Rotunda; Aviator at the University of Virginia; and the monument depicting North Carolinian soldiers who fought during the Battle of Gettysburg. Gutzon Borglum’s most famous art work was the Mount Rushmore Project. It started from 1927 until after his death in 1941. His son finished another season and reached completion the way his father wanted.
Philo T. Farnsworth
His family moved to a farm in Rigby, Idaho in 1918. Mr. Farnsworth was excited to find his new home with electricity. He studied in mechanical and electrical technology. When he was fourteen years old, Mr. Farnsworth discovered that an electron beam could scan a picture in horizontal lines, which meant that it can reproduce the image almost immediately.
Mr. Farnsworth designed and built the world’s first working all-electronic television system. He used a pencil-sized tube with a small aperture at the top in order to scan a picture. The magnetic coils sprayed the electrons released from the electrical image left to right. They became electric current when it is line by line onto the aperture. Mr. Farnsworth demonstrated his system to the press on September 3, 1928 and the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia on August 25, 1934. RCA tried to sue Mr. Farnsworth for his patent on the television. Mr. Farnsworth brought his high school chemistry teacher to show a sketch he had made of a blackboard drawing that Mr. Farnsworth had shown him in 1922. RCA lost the suit.
Mr. Farnsworth held 300 U.S. and foreign patens. His invention included radar, infro-red night light, the electron microscope, gastroscope, the baby incubator, and the astronomical telescope.
Ernest Hemingway
American author and journalist whose life was full of adventure and public image. Earnest Hemingway married four times and had five children. His writings influenced 20th-century fiction. He stated as a reporter for "The Kansas City Star." He served as an ambulance driver during World War II. He covered the Spanish Civil War. In 1922, Ernest Hemingway worked as a foreign correspondent in Paris, France. He met a modernist writer named Gertrude Stein. He also met other modernist writers and artists of the 1920s. Ernest Hemingway generated most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. .
Ernest Hemingway wrote ten novels, ten short story collections, and five non-fiction works. His first book was called "The Sun Also Rises" in 1924. Such stories include "For Whom the Bell Tolls," "Farewell to Arms," and "The Old Man and the Sea." They are based what he had experienced in World War II, the Spanish Civil War, and Cuba. His characters showed realism that people face every day. In 1954, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Ernest Hemingway spent the remainder of his life in Ketchum, Idaho. He was in a serious plane crash when he was traveling in Africa. He was never the same afterwards. He went through a serious depression. He started to believe that the FBI was checking his bank accounts and his movements. Ernest Hemingway was also concerned about his money and his safety. Ernest Hemingway had physical problems also. His health was declining and his eye sight was failing. He took several treatments for his depression, but they weren't successful. Ernest Hemingway killed himself at his home in Ketchum on July 2, 1961. His legacy continues on through his writing philosophy, style, and his public image.