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Genealogy for Charles Richard Simplot (1883 - 1974) family tree on Geni, with over 230 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
Father of billionaire potato and microchip magnate, J. R. Simplot. Son of Charles LeClere Simplot and Mary Ellen Bonson. He married Dorothy Haxby in Dubuque, Iowa on Jan. 4, 1904.
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He talks briefly about his father, Charles Richard Simplot, a farmer who left Iowa to homestead in Idaho in 1909. Charles brought pigs, chickens and horses in two box cars and settled near Declo. He brought his wife, Dorothy, and three young children (of what would be six), including one-year-old John Richard.
May 21, 2024 · J.D. Simplot. Director and Executive Committee member. Steve Beebe. Director. Richard Hormaechea. Director. John Otter. Director. Terry Uhling. Director. Leadership. Our Founder. What started as a one-man farming operation in 1929 has grown into a worldwide enterprise with more than 13,000 employees.
John Richard Simplot (/ ˈ s ɪ m p l ɒ t /; January 4, 1909 – May 25, 2008) was an American entrepreneur and businessman best known as the founder of the J. R. Simplot Company, a Boise, Idaho–based agricultural supplier specializing in potato products. In 2007, he was estimated to be the 89th-richest person in the United States, at $3.6 ...
Research genealogy for Charles Richard Simplot of Dubuque Dubuque Co Iowa, as well as other members of the Simplot family, on Ancestry®.
Charles Richard's son was John Richard Simplot. (1) Driving around Boise with license plates reading “Mr. Spud,” J.R. Simplot was one of the United States wealthiest agri-businessman in the twentieth century. (2) For more than seventy years, Simplot dominated Idaho’s business and political life.
