Settlement and incorporation On July 19, 1850, William H. Adams, John Mercer and Philo T. Farnsworth,Not the same Philo T. Farnsworth as the inventor born in 1906. See also, Philo T. Farnsworth's witness testimony in regard to the Mountain Meadows Massacre Mormon pioneers sent by Brigham Young, arrived at the area now known as Pleasant Grove and staked out farms in what is now the southwest corner of the city. A small community was established September 13, 1850, consisting of George S. Clark and his wife, Susannah Dalley Clark, Richard and Ann Elizabeth Sheffer Clark, John Greenleaf Holman and Nancy Clark Holman, Lewis Harvey and his wife Lucinda Clark Harvey, Johnathan Harvey and Sarah Herbert Harvey, Charles Price and wife and child, Widow Harriet Marler and children, John Wilson, Ezekiel Holman, and possibly one or two others, relatives of those mentioned. Of note, William Fletcher and Anne Hawley Reynolds in 1852 brought Ellis Reynolds Shipp to live, which Shipp became the legendary MD, Obstetrician, and Pediatrician, through the young women's midwife training program of Dr. Richards and Eliza Snow, beginning her training in young women's MIA in Pleasant Grove.Ellis Reynolds Shipp: Autobiography, E>R>S, 1898 Deseret Book Pleasant Grove was officially incorporated as a town January 18, 1855, by which time the settlement had grown to 623 people.
Settlement and incorporation On July 19, 1850, William H. Adams, John Mercer and Philo T. Farnsworth,Not the same Philo T. Farnsworth as the inventor born in 1906. See also, Philo T. Farnsworth's witness testimony in regard to the Mountain Meadows Massacre Mormon pioneers sent by Brigham Young, arrived at the area now known as Pleasant Grove and staked out farms in what is now the southwest corner of the city. A small community was established September 13, 1850, consisting of George S. Clark and his wife, Susannah Dalley Clark, Richard and Ann Elizabeth Sheffer Clark, John Greenleaf Holman and Nancy Clark Holman, Lewis Harvey and his wife Lucinda Clark Harvey, Johnathan Harvey and Sarah Herbert Harvey, Charles Price and wife and child, Widow Harriet Marler and children, John Wilson, Ezekiel Holman, and possibly one or two others, relatives of those mentioned. Of note, William Fletcher and Anne Hawley Reynolds in 1852 brought Ellis Reynolds Shipp to live, which Shipp became the legendary MD, Obstetrician, and Pediatrician, through the young women's midwife training program of Dr. Richards and Eliza Snow, beginning her training in young women',s MIA in Pleasant Grove.Ellis Reynolds Shipp: Autobiography, E>R>S, 1898 Deseret Book Pleasant Grove was officially incorporated as a town January 18 1855, by which time the settlement had grown to 623 people.