Jesse B. Ingerson Biography

	This biography appears on page 1033 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	JESSE B. INGERSON, the present able and popular incumbent of the office 
of county auditor of Buffalo county, was born in St. Lawrence, New York, 
on the 13th of June, 1864, and is a son of Lewis and Maria (Baraclough) 
Ingerson, the former of whom is still living, while the mother is dead. 
They became the parents of five children, of whom the subject was the 
third in order of birth, while four of the number are living at the time 
of this writing. The father of the subject was a farmer by vocation and 
both he and his wife were representatives of families long and honorably 
identified with the annals of American history. Jesse B. Ingerson was 
tendered such educational advantages as were afforded by the public 
schools of his native state and was reared under the invigorating 
discipline of the homestead farm. At the age of sixteen years he left 
the parental roof to become dependent upon his own resources. He was 
principally engaged in farming in New York state until 1883, when, at 
the age of nineteen years, he came to South Dakota, which was then a 
portion of the great integral territory of Dakota, and settled in 
Buffalo county, where he took up government land and set himself 
vigorously to the work of reclaiming and improving the same. That he has 
been successful is best shown in the fact that he is now the owner of a 
fine landed estate of about one thousand acres, a considerable portion 
of which is devoted to the raising of grain, while the balance is 
utilized in connection with the raising of live stock, to which industry 
he has given special attention, carrying on the enterprise upon an 
extensive scale and also I being a successful dealer in and shipper of 
stock.  

	Mr. Ingerson is a stalwart Republican in his political 
proclivities, and in the fall of 1902 he was elected county auditor, 
assuming his official duties on the 6th of March, 1903, and having thus 
taken up his residence in Gann Valley, the attractive county seat. He 
still gives a general supervision to his ranch, but the county is 
fortunate in having secured his services in an office for which he is so 
distinctively eligible. Fraternally, he is identified with the Modern 
Woodmen of America.  

	On the 17th of September, 1890, Mr. Ingerson led to the hymeneal 
altar Miss Anna Miller, who was born and reared in South Dakota, being a 
daughter of A. W. Miller, a prominent and honored resident of Buffalo 
county, this state. Mr. and Mrs. Ingerson have five children, all of 
whom remain beneath the home roof, namely: Myrtle, Laura, Pearl, Jesse 
and Flaurence.