Charles ingalls family tree
Charles Philip Ingalls
Seems as though all I ever saw of Pa was his face especially his eyes, his whiskers and his hair always standing on end.
Baby birth date President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. DNA Connections It may be possible to confirm family relationships. Retrieved June 26, Caroline Lake Quiner.And too his hands on his violin. &#; Laura Ingalls Wilder,
Charles Philip Ingalls was born January 10, , in Cuba Township (Allegheny County) New York, the third of ten children of Lansford Whiting Ingalls and Laura Louise Colby. He had older brother Peter (born ) and younger siblings Lydia (born ), Polly (born ), James (born ), Docia (born ), Hiram (born ), George (born ), and Ruby (born ).
An older sibling died shortly after birth in
Before Charles was twelve years old, the Ingalls family moved to Kane County, Illinois, just west of Chicago. In the early s, they moved to Concord Township (Jefferson County) Wisconsin; Lansford Ingalls bought 80 acres there in In , Charles Ingalls purchased a portion of this property from his father.
Charles&#; land was just north of the Oconomowoc River; to the south lived the Holbrooks: Frederick, his wife Charlotte (widow of Henry N. Quiner), and her children Henry, Martha, Caroline, Eliza, and Thomas. Charlotte&#;s eldest son, Joseph, married in and lived several miles away.
There were three marriages between the Ingalls and Quiner families: Henry Quiner married Polly Ingalls in , and Peter Ingalls married Eliza Quiner in Charles Ingalls and Caroline Quiner were married in Concord on February 1,
Lansford Ingalls lost his farm in Jefferson County, and it was sold at sheriff&#;s auction in January This probably influenced Charles Ingalls and other family members to sell their land there and move on.
Charles ingalls birth date change After the Latter-Day Saints left the population settled down toward 2, people. In , Ingalls opened a general goods store. Tools Tools. Archived from the original on April 20,In the summer of , Martha Quiner had married Charles Carpenter, and he and other friends from the Concord area had relocated to Pepin County, and they were encouraging others to consider joining them there.
September , Charles Ingalls and his brother-in-law, Henry Quiner, paid $ for acres in Pepin County &#; the SW Charles and Caroline settled on the south half of the quarter section, and Henry and Polly settled on the north side.
Charles and Caroline Ingalls had two daughters born in Pepin County: Mary Amelia (born January 10, ) and Laura Elizabeth (born February 7, ).
Daughter Carrie was born in Rutland Township (Montgomery County) Kansas on August 3, Son Charles Frederick was born November 1, , in Walnut Grove (Redwood County) Minnesota; he died August 27, , in South Troy (Wabasha County) Minnesota.
Daughter Grace Pearl was born May 23, , in Burr Oak (Winneshiek County) Iowa.
In , Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote that her father was a &#;hunter and a trapper, a poet and a musician.&#; Charles Ingalls at various times was also a justice of the peace deputy sheriff, tax collector, farmer, storekeeper, timekeeper for the railroad, and carpenter.
It is not know when or where Charles Ingalls learned to play the fiddle, but it was his stories, his songs and his memory that Wilder wanted to honor in the Little House books. Charles Ingalls&#; wanderlust led the family from Wisconsin to Indian Territory, Minnesota, Iowa, and Dakota Territory. It was in Dakota that Charles Ingalls agreed to settle permanently, homesteading and making final proof on a quarter section, but ultimately settling down in the town of De Smet, in a house he built on Third Street in
Charles Ingalls died in De Smet, South Dakota, on June 8, , and was buried in the De Smet cemetery.
Click HERE to see his obituary that was published in the Kingsbury County Independent, June 13,
The following biography of Mr. Ingalls was published in
CHARLES P. INGALLS, one of the leading settlers of Kingsbury county, South Dakota, who is now making his home in the village of De Smet, and is following the trade, of a carpenter, is of English descent.
His ancestors, who took a prominent part in the Revolutionary war, settled in Vermont and marched with the &#;Green Mountain Boys&#; for the freedom of their adopted country. Charles&#; grandfather fought in the war of
Our subject was born in the city of Cuba, Allegany county, New York, January 10, , the second in order of birth of a family of nine children born to L.W.
and Laura (Colby) Ingalls, both natives of New York. He lived on his father&#;s farm in New York until about twenty-four years of age, and then purchased a farm in Pepin county, Wisconsin, and operated the same for eighteen years. He spent two years working in Kansas, and four years on his farm in Minnesota.
In he drove overland with his family from Tracy, Minnesota, to Dakota, where he secured a position as time-keeper and camp overseer of the C. & N. W. railroad construction gang from Brookings to De Smet. Near De Smet he took government land, the northeast quarter of section 3, township , range 56, whereupon he lived and farmed for about seven years.
Charles ingalls birth date Wisconsin to points west [ edit ]. Name Meaning. Charles Ingalls. Charles moved his family quite a bit before settling in DeSmet, South Dakota.Prior to this the family lived on the present site of De Smet, he being in the employ of the railroad company and living in their section house. This was the winter of , which was fortunately very mild. The lakes were open in the month of February, and geese, ducks and swans were very numerous. In January, , was given the first oyster festival in Kingsbury county, and on the second day of February, , was held at the home of Mr.
Ingalls, the first Congregational church service of De Smet, conducted by Rev. E. H. Alden, of Minnesota. So far as is known, this was the first religious gathering in the county of Kingsbury. In the spring of , a committee appointed by the governor for the purpose of organizing the county met at the home of Mr. Ingalls.
This committee consisted of Mr. Barber, chairman; Mr. Burvee and A. Whiting, and they chose De Smet as the temporary county seat. For the county officers they made the following selections: J.K. Smith, sheriff; Will Whiting, county register of deeds; and Captain Gibson and Charles Ingalls, justices of the peace. Politically, Mr.
Ingalls is a Populist, and for six years he held the position of deputy sheriff. He is a member of the Masonic lodge of De Smet No. 55, and he, his wife and his daughter, Caroline, belong to the Eastern Star lodge.
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Charles ingalls birth date and death Laura Ingalls Wilder was known for her Little House on the Prairie series of children's books, published between and Their first child, Mary Amelia Ingalls, was born there on January 10, A few years later, he had "proved up" his claim and sold the farm, choosing to move back into De Smet and build a home on Third Street. They then went to Burr Oak, Iowa and then back to Minnesota; Presented with an opportunity to work for a railroad in Dakota Territory , he longed to move yet again, as the family was struggling financially in Minnesota.Ingalls was married in , to Miss Caroline L. Quiner, a lay of Scotch descent, daughter of Henry and Charlotte (Tucker) Quiner, of Boston, Massachusets. Mrs. Ingalls was born December 12, , at Milwaukee, Wisconsin territory. To this union have been born five children, viz: Mary A., a graduate of the class of , Iowa College for the Blind; Laura E., wife of A.J.
Wilder; Caroline C.; Frederick, deceased; and Grace P. The family are charter members of the Congregational church of De Smet
— Memorial & Biographical Record, An Illustrated Compendium of Biography (Chicago: George A. Ogle & Co., ),
Charles Ingalls (Mr.
Ingalls is featured in almost every chapter of every Little House book, except for Farmer Boy)
Pa &#; What the Ingalls children called their father (see BW 1)
Ingalls office / store building (SSL ; TLW 2, , 27, 29; LTP 5, 8, 12, 21; THGY 24; PG)
thinks tree stump is a bear (BW 6; PG)
is surrounded by wolf pack (LHP 7; PG)
has hair cut by mouse (LTP 3; PG)
spells down the whole town of De Smet (LTP 18)