Aberdeen, Idaho

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City Hall
http://yanceyfamilygenealogy.org/aberdeen.htm Aberdeen City Hall 33 North Main Aberdeen P.O. Box 190 Aberdeen, Idaho 83210 Phone: 208. 397 . 4161 - Fax: 208. 397 . 3431

Current
There are two wards and one branch holding meetings in this meetinghouse:

149 W Central St, Aberdeen, ID 83210 (208) 397-3249

Historical
Many of the original records of church units are in the Church History Library in Salt Lake City. Many of the membership records covering these units from the date of their creation to about 1948 have been microfilmed and are available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City or at its Family History Centers. Records of the Aberdeen Ward (1908-1948) are included in this collections.

Directories
The Idaho State Archives in Boise has a collection of city, county, regional and state directories.

Funeral Homes
Davis-rose Mortuary 170 Idaho St American Falls, Idaho 83210 (208) 226-2147

History
Aberdeen, Bingham County, Idaho consists of Latter-day Saints residing in a growing settlement of the name in the Snake River Valley. Aberdeen is the terminus of branch of the Oregon Short Line Railroad. In 1915 there were only about eight or ten Latter-day Saint settlers in the newly surveyed town of Aberdeen. Samuel Neville, Nils A. Pehrson, Alma Rigby, John F. Monson, Wilhelm Carlson, and Leonard H. Elias and Roy Phillips settle in Aberdeen. These families were members of the Sterling Ward, on Oct 3, 1915; they were organized as the Aberdeen Branch. Regular meetings were commenced in private houses. On Dec 3, 1916 the branch was organized as a so-called “independent” branch (reporting directly to the presidency of the Blackfoot Stake). The total population of the Aberdeen Precinct was 1,761 in 1930; of these 646 resided in the town of Aberdeen.

Additional history of Aberdeen, Idaho and the early Mormon settlers there can be found in: Andrew Jenson. Encyclopedic History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Publishing Company, 1941, p. 2.

Current
Aberdeen Times 174 Idaho St. American Falls, ID 83211 Mailing address: P.O. Box 856 Aberdeen, ID 832110 Ph. (208)226-5294 email - press1@dcdi.net Weekly

Historical
Copies of issues of Aberdeen newspapers are in the collections of the Idaho State Archives in Boise.