The first permanent settlers of Ferron arrived Dec. 6, 1877: Swen Larsen and his son Niels Christian Larsen, Nicholas Larsen and his wife Helena, and Peter F. Peterson and his wife Caroline. The first woman with a family of children, Ann Singleton Wrigley, wife of Joseph Wrigley, came in the fall of 1878. Ferron was named in honor of A.D. Ferron, a pioneer surveyor of Cache Valley.