She arrived with nothing — now Idaho Falls Is honoring a forgotten trailblazer

When Rebecca Brown Mitchell arrived in Eagle Rock — what is now Idaho Falls — with her teenage daughter, Bessie, they had nothing but the clothes on their back and a few belongings. It was June 5, 1882, and the 48-year-old Illinois woman who would one day become the world’s first female chaplain of a […]
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