Editing J. R. Simplot (section)

==Early life==
Born in [[Dubuque, Iowa]],<ref name=jmsimapobt/> he was the third of six children of Charles R. and Dorothy (Haxby) Simplot. His maternal grandmother was English, as were both parents of both his maternal grandfather and paternal grandmother. His paternal great-grandparents were both French.{{citation needed|date=February 2022}}

A year later in 1910, the family relocated a thousand miles (1,600&nbsp;km) west to [[Homestead Act|homestead]] in the newly [[irrigation|irrigated]] [[Magic Valley]] of south central [[Idaho]]; the [[Minidoka Dam]] on the [[Snake River]] was completed a few years earlier. After differences with his father, Simplot left school in the eighth grade at age 14 in 1923, then worked on a farm near [[Declo, Idaho|Declo]] in [[Cassia County, Idaho|Cassia County]]. He developed a low-cost method for feeding hogs when the market fell, feeding them wild horse meat and potatoes. When the market recovered, Simplot sold his hogs at a profit and got into the [[potato]] and vegetable processing business.<ref name=trlhaas/><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.rangemagazine.com/archives/stories/summer98/jr_simplot.htm |title= Mr. Spud |access-date= 2008-05-30}}</ref>