FAYETTE COUNTY OHIO BIOS;INGRAM,Marion 1883
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"Counties of White and Pulaski Counties, Indiana - City of Winamac" by F.A. 
Battey & Co. - published in 1883

MARION H. INGRIM was born in Fayette County, Ohio, October 12, 1834; came to 
this county in the spring of 1843; two years later, went to Kewanna and 
resided there about ten years, receiving about three months’ schooling each 
winter; thence he went to Logansport, then to Kansas City, then to St. Louis 
and then to Peoria, Ill., where he served an apprenticeship on the Daily News 
for one year. He then traveled as a “jour” to Louisville, back to 
Indianapolis, where he worked on the Journal, then to St. Louis, where he 
secured “cases” on the Democrat; thence he went to Memphis, where he worked 
on the dailies, and was for a time foreman of the Avalanche; thence to 
Grenada, Miss., where he had charge of the Weekly Locomotive; he then worked 
on the Panola (Miss.) Star, then returned to the Avalanche, at Memphis; 
thence he went to Vicksburg, in December, 1862, and worked on the Whig until 
every able-bodied printer was forced out in advance of a file of soldiers to 
do guard duty or work in the trenches. There he remained until the close of 
the siege, July 4, 1863, when he came North and reached Winamac January 1, 
1864. He then set type on the Chicago Tribune, Indianapolis Journal and 
Cincinnati Gazette until February 16, 1865, when he returned to Winamac and 
purchased the Democrat office from Hon. George Burson, and continued its 
publication until 1870, when he sold a half-interest to Dr. F.B. Thomas, and 
in 1871 sold the remaining half to Ben Frank. He then took his family to 
Memphis, where he remained until February, 1872, when he returned to Winamac, 
and on the 7th of September, 1878, founded the Journal, a seven-column folio, 
which has, in his hands, proved a success.