A. H. Ingersoll Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1128-1129 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	HON. A. H. INGERSOLL, county judge of Roberts county, was born in 
Waupun, Wisconsin, October 12, 1857, and is the son of Artemedorous and 
Nancy (McNammard) Ingersoll, both parents natives of Pennsylvania, the 
father of English descent, the mother of Scotch-Irish. Artemedorus 
Ingersoll came from an old and respected New England family, was a man 
of intelligence and much more than ordinary culture and for a number of 
years served as official surveyor of Dodge county, Wisconsin, having 
been an educated and remarkably capable civil engineer. He reared a 
family of nine children, six sons and three daughters, the oldest son, a 
captain in the late Civil war, dying in a rebel prison, and two others 
have died since that time. 

	A. H. Ingersoll was reared in his native state, received a high-
school education at Waupun, Wisconsin, and studied law at Preston, 
Minnesota, under the direction of Henry R. Wells, being admitted to the 
bar in 1878. In that year he came to South Dakota and, settling on a 
tree claim near Wilmot, began practicing in that town and upon the 
organization of Roberts county, in 1882, he was chosen state's attorney, 
which position he held for a term of two years, retiring at the 
expiration of that time to his farm. But a brief interval elapsed until 
he was again elected to the office and after discharging the duties of 
the same in an able and satisfactory manner for a period of six years, 
he was elected to the county judgeship, which with the exception of four 
years spent in agricultural pursuits, he has since held. Judge Ingersoll 
is an able lawyer, a judicious and successful practitioner, and as a 
judge his course has been creditable to himself and an honor to the 
county, fully meeting the expectations of his friends and the public and 
justifying the wisdom of his election. In the discharge of his official 
functions he is eminently fair and impartial, his rulings bear every 
evidence of a profound knowledge of the law, his decisions have been 
characterized by an intense desire to render justice in all matters 
submitted for his consideration, and thus far there has been little in 
his career to criticise and much to commend. He is not only one of the 
representative Republicans of Roberts county, but enjoys much more than 
local prestige as a judicious organizer and successful leader. 

	Judge Ingersoll is vice-president of the Citizens' Bank at this 
place, and a stockholder in the same, and is also identified with the 
Bank of Wilmot, besides having various other interests which tend to the 
development of the country and the promotion of its prosperity. 
Fraternally he belongs to the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the 
Knights of Pythias, in both of which brotherhoods he is an active 
worker, and at different times he has been honored with important 
official positions in the same. 

	The Judge was married on April 15, 1881, to Miss Ida F. Maydole, a 
native of Iowa and the daughter of Henry M. and Eliza (Wilson) Maydole, 
the father of German descent, the mother's lineage being traceable to an 
old New England family that figured in the early history of Vermont.