George  Qunicy  knowlton

George Quincy Knowlton (1880–1957) was a Farmington educator and local historian who authored History of Farmington. The son of Benjamin Franklin Knowlton and Rhoda Ann Jennetta Richards, he was born in Farmington but spent much of his childhood at the family ranch in “the Dell” near Tooele, where he developed a love of horses, the outdoors, and friendships with Native and Hawaiian communities. He attended L.D.S. High School in Salt Lake City, served a mission to the Eastern States, and earned a degree in education from the B.Y.C. in Logan and the University of Utah. Knowlton began teaching in Orderville, where he married fellow teacher Rozilpha Jepson in 1907, and later returned to Farmington, serving as principal of local schools for 42 years. He retired in 1950 and died in 1957, remembered by generations of students and neighbors (Knowlton, 1965).