John Bidwell (August 5, 1819 – April 4, 1900), known in Spanish as Don Juan Bidwell,[1] was an American pioneer, politician, and soldier. Bidwell is known as the founder of the city of Chico, California.
Born in New York, he emigrated at the age of 22 to Alta California (then a part of Mexico) as part of the Bartleson–Bidwell Party, one of the first expeditions of American emigrants along the California Trail. In California, he became a Mexican citizen and a prominent landowner, receiving multiple rancho grants from the governors of Alta California. Following the U.S. Conquest of California, Bidwell went on to serve in the California Senate and then in the U.S. House of Representatives.
^Jimeno's and Hartnell's Indexes of Land Concessions, from 1830 to 1846
JohnBidwell (August 5, 1819 – April 4, 1900), known in Spanish as Don Juan Bidwell, was an American pioneer, politician, and soldier. Bidwell is known...
Bidwell Mansion, located at 525 Esplanade in Chico, California, was the home of General JohnBidwell and Annie Bidwell from late 1868 until 1900, when...
Annie Kennedy Bidwell (June 30, 1839 – March 9, 1918) was a 19th-century pioneer and founder of society in the Sacramento Valley area of California. She...
1905, through the donation by Annie Bidwell, widow of Chico's founder, JohnBidwell, of approximately 2,500 acres (1,000 hectares) of land to the City of...
won 8.5% of the popular vote and carried several Western states, while JohnBidwell of the Prohibition Party won 2.2% of the popular vote. The Democrats...
Regent Alfred JohnBidwell (12 June 1869 – 6 April 1918), also known as R. A. J. Bidwell, was an English-born architect noted for his colonial era buildings...
Joshua JohnBidwell (born March 13, 1976) is an American former professional football player who was a punter for 12 seasons in the National Football League...
Senator Bidwell may refer to: Barnabas Bidwell (1763–1833), Massachusetts State Senate Everett Bidwell (1899–1991), Wisconsin State Senate JohnBidwell (1819–1900)...
even into modern works. The art and linguistics historian John Agnew and the writer Walter Bidwell describe Caracalla as having an evil spirit, referring...
site of the original beach house. Designed by architect Regent Alfred JohnBidwell of Swan and Maclaren, it was completed in 1899. The new main building...
Edward JohnBidwell (26 November 1866 – 11 August 1941) was an English Anglican clergyman, who served as Bishop of Ontario from 1917 to 1926. He was born...
Charles Woodruff Bidwell and Alice Beach Nobel. She was a descendant of JohnBidwell, one of the founders of Hartford, Connecticut. Bidwell worked as a teacher...
original register show such signatures as Mark Twain, John Jacob Astor, Ulysses S. Grant, JohnBidwell, Charles Bolles (alias Black Bart), Henry Ward Beecher...
City, Idaho. The road was surveyed and financed by prominent settler JohnBidwell and carried passengers, mail, and freight between logging and ranching...
popularity in the early 20th century has been attributed to Regent Alfred JohnBidwell. His design for W. Patchitt House at Cluny Road in 1903 spurred on a...
In Singapore, then a British colony, architects such as Regent Alfred JohnBidwell pioneered what became known as the Black and White House. The earliest...
Camp Bidwell, later Camp Chico, was a U.S. Army post during the American Civil War. Camp Bidwell was named for JohnBidwell, the founder of the nearby...
believe there were a thousand elk in one herd." General JohnBidwell of the 1841 Bartleson–Bidwell Party wrote: "In some of the fertile valleys, such as...
Electoral College; the election was thrown to the Congress, which chose John Quincy Adams. The following list indicates lifetime votes received across...
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