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WEST VIRGINIA In History, Life, Literature and Industry
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1925 - Volume IV, page 370

        BURTON T. INGELS. One of the basic industries of West Virginia is
lumbering, the magnificent forst regions of this great state furnishing an
almost unlimited supply of the raw material for countless enterprises
connected with the supplying of the immense demand for lumber. One of the
concerns long connected with meeting this demand is the Graham Lumber
Company of Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virginia, of which one of the
prime factors is Burton T. Ingels, its secretary and treasurer.
        Mr. Burton was born at Gallipolis, Ohio, July 19, 1886, a son of
Jasper C. and Emma (Gilbert) Ingels, both of whom are living and residing
at Gallipolis, where the father is serving as president of the First
National Bank. He is an active Republican, and has held the offices of
probate judge, county treasurer and county recorder of Media County. Seven
children were born to the parents, namely: Stella C., who married C.H.
Booton; Jesse, who died in 1918; Dolly, who married W.P. Kling; Clyde C.,
who is cashier of his father's bank; Burton T., whose name heads this
review; Chauncey C., who died in 1924; and Marie, who married M.W. Cornwell.
        Graduated from the Ohio State University at Columbus, Burton T.
Ingels was sent to Herndon, West Virginia, as sales manager for the Guyan
Lumber Company. While there he became active in politics as a Republican,
and was a justice of the peace from 1910 to 1912, a member of the school
board from 1912 to 1916, and in the latter year he was elected president of
the board and served in that capacity until 1926. In the latter year he
came to Bluefield, bought into the Graham Lumber company, and became its
secretary and treasurer.
        On September 30, 1911, Mr. Ingels married Miss Belva Lillian Price,
born at Huntington, West Virginia, July 23, 1892, a daughter of Peter and
Marie (Griffith) Price, of Herndon, West Virginia, where for years Mr.
Price has been master mechanic for the Guyan Lumber Company. Mr. and Mrs.
Price have had the following children born to their marriage: Ellen, who
married J.A. Hammersley; Chilton; Mrs. Ingels; Clyde; and Ilma, who married
W.A. Finney, of Mullens. Mr. and Mrs. Ingels have no children. He is a Blue
Lodge Mason, with membership at Rock, West Virginia, and he belongs to the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of Bluefield and the Knights of
Pythias and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Herndon. A Methodist in
religious faith, he belongs to the Bluefield Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
        A very interesting bit of pioneer history relative to Ohio centers
about Mary Ingels, an ancestor of Mr. Ingels. She was captured by the
Indians and carried from Pennsylvania over the Alleghany Mountains into
Ohio, where she soon thereafter gave birth to what is claimed was the first
white child born west of these mountains. She subsequently escaped from her
captors, and, with her baby, managed to get back to her husband and family.
It is difficult in these days, not so far off as history regards it, to
realize the conditions under which the pioneers of any frontier struggled,
especially when they had to also contend with the red foes.


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