When members of a newly formed religion, who called themselves Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) were pushed from their settlements in Illinois and Missouri, they moved west. In 1847 they arrived in the Great Basin in northern Utah http://www.livingplaces.com. in 1858 Jacob Hamblin and other mormons explored and tried to settle in what is now Kane county, Utah.
Mormon pioneer family moving west
In 1858 Jacob Hamblin and other mormons explored and tried to settle what is now Kane county, Utah. But increasing tensions between the encroaching Mormons and Native tribes led to the Black Hawk War which forced settlers from Kane and other counties.
Kane county jail house, date unknown
Ute warrior and his wife
In 1870 a man by the name of Levi Stewart was sent by a Mormon leader named Brigham Young (who was still living in the Great Basin area in northern Utah) to once again settle the city of Kanab in Kane county. Then again in 1874 Brigham Young sent Jacob Hamblin to the same area to help expand the church.
Women of Kanab, Utah
So how did Kane county end up being named Kane county? Mormons named the county after a man named Colonial Thomas L. Kane, who had acted as a friend, activist, and peace keeper for the Mormons.
man that Kane county was named after
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