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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

    L. A. INGERSOLL, of Santa Monica, was born in the village of Delta, Eaton
county, Michigan, August 7, 1851, a son of Alexander and Emeline Baker
Inger-soll. Alexander Ingersoll was a son of Erastus Ingersoll, who with a
family of thirteen children located large tracts of heavily timbered land on
Grand river in the interior of the lower peninsula of Michigan, in 1836, when
that State was a Territory. He obtained a charter from the U. S. Government to
build a dam across the river, erected a sawmill and a grist mill, which formed
the nucleus to a growing and prosperous community. Upon the death of Erastus
Ingersoll a large landed estate came into the possession of members of the
family and Alexander Ingersoll became owner of the water power and mills. He
also owned timber and agricultural lands. He improved the milling property,
built up an extensive business and was a moving spirit in the community. He
served several years as a member of the County Board of Supervisors and was also
for a long period director of the schools, deacon in the church and
superintendent of the Sunday-school. Besides his interests in Delta he became
interested largely in the milling interests of Lansing. In later years he closed
out his interests in Michigan, located at Saint Croix Falls, Wis., where he died
in 1890.

    Emeline Baker Ingersoll was a native of the town of Stafford, Gennesee
county, N. Y., a daughter of Captain Remember Baker, who was a grandson of
Captain Remember Baker, a brother-in-law of Colonel Ethan Allen of Revolutionary
fame. Captain Baker commanded a company of Green Mountain boys, and was Colonel
Allen's second in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga in the name of "The Great
Jehovah and Continental Congress." Baker immediately thereafter took possession
of Crown Point, was betrayed by Indians, and beheaded. His name is recorded in
history as the first officer killed in the American Revolution. Captain Remember
Baker, the maternal grandfather of L. A. Ingersoll, early in life went to* sea,
became master of a ship and navigated North river. He was the pilot of the
Robert Fulton on its first voyage up the Hudson river. He was a soldier of the
War of 1812 and under General Brown held a captain's roving commission and did
his country great service as a scout. He located on Grand river near Delta,
Michigan, in 1836, later settled at Portland, thirty miles distant, where he
died in 1846. Emeline Baker Ingersoll, his daughter, in early life taught school
and later married at Delta. She was a woman of splendid domestic attainments and
great kindness of heart. During her many years of active life she was tireless
in church, Sunday-school and charitable work. She died at her home at Saint
Croix Falls, Wis., February, 1906, at 83 years of age.

    L. A. Ingersoll grew up in the village of Delta, attended Olivet College,
Olivet, Michigan, spent seven years in the dry goods house of an uncle, Harley
Ingersoll, at Lansing, Mich., spent two years seeking health in the northwest,
was from 1879 to 1886 engaged in compiling local history in Michigan, Illinois,
Kentucky, New York and the New England States. In 1886 he established and for
two years published the Saint Croix Valley Standard newspaper at Saint Croix
Falls, Wisconsin. In 1888 he came to California and has devoted about twenty
years to collating, writing and publishing California history. In 1904 he
published Ingersoll's Century Annals of San Bernardino County. Ingersoll's
Century History of Santa Monica Bay Cities, 1908, is the second book of a series
of local histories he has in various stages of development. He married October
5th at Ypsilanti, Michigan, Miss Mary Elizabeth Otto, a daughter of George and
Rose Otto, pioneers of Southern Michigan, and there is one daughter, Grace.


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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)


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