* 1799 – Jedediah Strong Smith, American hunter and explorer ( d. 1831 )

* 1831 – Jedediah Smith, American explorer and author ( b. 1799 )

* January 6 – Jedediah Smith, an American fur trapper and explorer ( d. 1831 )

Formed in the mid 1820s, the Rocky Mountain Fur Company partnership included Jedediah Smith, William Sublette and David Edward Jackson or " Davey Jackson ".

Fur traders included Manuel Lisa, Robert Stuart, William Henry Ashley, Jedediah Smith, William Sublette, Andrew Henry, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, Peter Skene Ogden, David Thompson, James Douglas, Donald Mackenzie, Alexander Ross, James Sinclair and other mountain men.

In fall of 1823, Jedediah Smith and Thomas Fitzpatrick led their trapping crew south from the Yellowstone River to the Sweetwater River.

Jedediah Smith was killed by Indians about 1831.

The exploration of the West by Jedediah Smith

** Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, California

* Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park California

Famous early figures include Kit Carson, who took part in a fight that gave name to Bloody Island and Battle Creek, Jedediah Smith, John Fremont, and William B. Ide, the first and only president of the California Republic.

Starting in 1828, northern trappers including Jedediah Smith, Michel Laframboise, and John Work first made contact with the Concow region Maidu and permanent settlements began in 1856.

In 1826, Jedediah Smith passed through what is now Upland on the first overland journey to the West coast of North America via the National Old Trails Highway ( present-day Foothill Blvd ).

In the early 19th century, the nomadic French Canadian fur trapper, François Payette, roamed the area alongside other mountain men like Jim Bridger, Peter Skene Ogden, and Jedediah Smith.

Trader and explorer Jedediah Smith was in the region seeking furs and the Hudson's Bay Company sent Alexander McLeod to search for an inland passage.

Fifty years later, in 1826, mountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith traveled through the area exploring a route from Utah to California.

Jedediah Strong Smith ( January 6, 1799 – May 27, 1831 ) was a hunter, trapper, fur trader, trailblazer, author, cartographer and explorer of the Rocky Mountains, the American West Coast and the Southwest during the 19th century.

In 1826, William H. Ashley retired from the fur trade, and in a complicated business arrangement sold his share to the newly created firm of Jedediah Smith, David E. Jackson, and William L. Sublette.

The exploration of the West by Jedediah Smith

Smith's exploration of northwestern California is commemorated in the names of the Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park and the Smith River.

Most of the western slope of Wyoming's famous Teton Range is named the Jedediah Smith Wilderness after him.

And the Jedediah Smith Memorial Trail, renamed the American River Bike Trail, runs between Folsom and Sacramento, California, through the former gold-dredging fields that are now the American River Parkway.

In the Frontiersman Camping Fellowship of Royal Rangers, New Mexico is designated the Jedediah Smith Chapter.

The character " Foster Hunnicutt " wondered what it was like to be Jim Bridger or Jedediah Smith.

It was named for Jedediah Morgan Grant, father of Heber J.

Jedediah Strutt, who was Arkwright's partner in the first Cromford Mill, built mills at Belper and Milford in 1776 – 1881.

Contemporaneous with Arkwright's expansionism was the entry of Jedediah Strutt into the cotton spinning industry.

Belper was already an established village with its own market before Jedediah Strutt began building mills, so he was not required to have as active a role in developing the community into a self-sustaining entity as Richard Arkwright did at Cromford.

Among them was Samuel Slater who was from the Derwent Valley and an apprentice of Jedediah Strutt.

A company was formed by Jedediah Irish, Jess Hart and Henry.

: Belper was where Samuel Slater had been apprenticed to Jedediah Strutt, learning the secrets of Richard Arkwright's Water Frame ( and is sometimes known in that area as " Slater the traitor ").

Early on, the area was deeded to Samuel Snyder, Heber C. Kimball and Jedediah Grant.

In 1824, while looking for the Crow tribe to obtain fresh horses and get westward directions, Jedediah was stalked and attacked by a large grizzly bear.

According to Dale L. Morgan, Jedediah Smith's biographer, Jedediah was looking for water for the 1831 expedition when he came upon an estimated 15 – 20 Comanches.

After gasping from the injury, Jedediah wheeled his horse around and with one rifle shot was able to kill their chief.

* In the 1984 motion picture Red Dawn, Patrick Swayze's character of Jed Smith says he used to read of the exploits of both Jim Bridger and Jedediah Smith, for whom he says he was named.

* Jedediah Smith ( 1799-circa 1831 ) was a hunter, trapper, and fur trader whose explorations were significant in opening the American West to settlement by Europeans and Americans.

Thus ended the era of the mountain men, trappers and scouts such as Jedediah Smith ( who had traveled through more unexplored western land than any non-Indian and was the first American to reach California overland ).

The Jedediah Hotchkiss House was listed in 1982.

* Jedediah Berry, author, was raised in Catskill.

The town was named for Captain Jedediah Hyde, a landowner.