Milo Andrus

Milo Andrus (March 6, 1814 – June 19, 1893) was one of earliest leaders in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

He was a Bishop (Church of Jesus Christ) in Nauvoo, a Stake President in St. Louis, a member of the Quorum of the Seventy, and was serving as a Patriarch at his death.

In 1854, Andrus recommended that a new outfitting site for emigrants going to Utah be situated four miles west of the soon-to-be-town of Atchison, Kansas.

The planted acreage was called the Perpetual Emigration Farm and soon Mormon Grove became a tent city.

Like many early Latter-day Saints, Andrus was a polygamist; he had eleven wives and fifty-seven children.