Dade County, Missouri Biographies-Monroe INGRAHAM

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, Missouri, 1889
Published by Goodspeed-Pgs. 819, 820

Monroe Ingraham, proprietor of the Dadeville Roller Mill, is a native of
Chautauqua County, N. Y., born November 16, 1825, and the son of Thomas
and Julia (Balis) Ingraham, both natives of Dutchess County, N. Y., the
former born June 20, 1802, and the latter September 19, 1803.  Thomas 
Ingraham was of English descent, and was a farmer by occupation.  He 
emigrated to Chautauqua County, N. Y., about 1823, and from ther to 
Washtenaw County, Mich., in 1832, where he passed the remainder of his
days, dying March 17, 1865.  He was one of the pioneers of that county.
The mother died at the home of her son, Monroe Ingraham, August 24, 1872,
the same year she came to Missouri.  They were the parents of five 
children, who grew to maturity, Monroe being the eldest child.  He remained
with his parents until twenty-fie years of age, and August 7, 1850, he 
married Miss Mary Abbott, who was born in the town of Bath, N. H., 
September 25, 1825, and who is the daughter of William and Patience 
(Burbank) Abbott, Mr. and Mrs. Abbott were both natives of New Hampshire,
and emigrated from their native State to Michigan, in 1827.  Here they 
both died, the mother in 1829, and the father in 1861.  To Mr. and Mrs. 
Ingraham were born four children, all living: Carlton A., Delia B., wife
of Daniel J. Blakemore; John C., and Julia Patience.  Mr. and Mrs. Ingraham,
after marriage, which occurred in Michigan, moved to Missouri, settling 
at Springfield in 1857, and there Mr. Ingraham started a foundry and 
machine shop and made the first casting in Southwest Missouri.  He resided
there until 1870, when they moved to Dadeville, Mo., and started a saw-mill
the same year, and in connection built a grist-mill in 1872, which he 
operated until 1877.  He then sold the saw-mill, but still continued to 
operate the grist-mill until 1886.  He then completed the roller-mill, 
which he still owns, and which is considered the best mill in Dade County.
It cost about $10,000, and was the first roller-mill in that county.  
It has a capacity for fifty barrels of flour per day, and Mr. Ingraham is
doing a successful business.  He was at first a Free Soil man in his 
politics, then a Whig, and afterward a Republican, but is now a 
Prohibitionist.  His first presidential vote was cast for Gen. Scott.  
He is an earnest worker for the cause of temperance, and he and wife 
and two children belong to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

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