Franklin, Franklin County, Idaho Genealogy

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City Hall
Franklin City Clerk 128 E. Main Street P.O. Box 69 Franklin, Idaho 83237 (208) 646-2300

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

Funeral Homes
Webb Funeral Home 109 Bear River Blfs Preston, Idaho 83263 (208) 852-1527 Webb Funeral Home 1005 S 800 E Preston, Idaho 83263 (208) 852-1391 Webb Jordan D 109 E Oneida St Preston, Idaho 83263 (208) 852-0533 http://www.webbmortuary.com/ Nelson Funeral Home 85 S Main St Smithfield, Utah 84335 (435) 563-5621 http://www.nelsonfuneralhome.com/ Allen Mortuary of North Logan 420 E 1800 N Logan, Utah 84341 (435) 753-3049 http://allenmortuaries.net/ Allen-Hall Mortuary 34 E Center St Logan, Utah 84321 (435) 752-3245 http://www.allenmortuaries.net/

History
The town of Franklin is situated on a bench between Cub River, Maple Creek and Spring Creek, which streams encircle the town so completely that it almost becomes an island surrounded by meadow land. The farming land in the immediate vicinity of Franklin is, as a rule, rich and productive, and all kinds of cereals can be raised successfully, thought only the hardier fruits do well. Franklin was first settled in 1860 as one of the original eight settlements in Cache Valley. Like some other settlements it was supposed to be in Utah, but when the boundary line between Utah and Idaho was established in 1872, Franklin was found to be in Idaho, which gave the town the distinction of being the first permanent Anglo-Saxon settlement founded in Idaho. The total population of the Franklin Precinct was 805 in 1930.

Additional history Franklin, 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. 262.

Newspapers
Copies of issues of some newspapers in the collections of the Idaho State Archives in Boise may be of help to residents of Franklin.