George Ingalls Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1146-1149 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was 
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				GEORGE INGALLS. 

	George Ingalls, a well known and representative agriculturist of 
Minnehaha county, owns a farm of three hundred and twenty acres in 
Buffalo township, which he has operated continuously and successfully 
for more than a third of a century. His birth occurred in Iowa on the 
2d of July, 1860, his parents being James and Elizabeth Ingalls. In 
1877 they came to South Dakota, their son George having taken up his 
abode in this state in the previous year. At that time there was no 
railroad in the state and but one bridge in Sioux Falls. James Ingalls 
purchased and homesteaded land in Minnehaha county and still makes his 
home northeast of Sioux Falls. The period of his residence in the 
community now covers thirty-eight years and he has witnessed the mighty 
changes which have occurred with the onward march of civilization. His 
wife is deceased. 

	George Ingalls acquired his education in the public schools of 
Iowa and South Dakota and after putting aside his textbooks assisted 
his father in the work of the home farm. Subsequently he homesteaded 
and purchased a tree claim, and at the present time he owns three 
hundred and twenty acres of rich and productive land in Buffalo 
township, on which he has resided continuously during the past thirty-
four years. In connection with the cultivation of cereals he feeds 
thirty head of cattle and fifty hogs, this branch of his business also 
proving profitable. He utilizes modern machinery in the work of the 
fields and is a practical, progressive agriculturist whose labors have 
brought him just reward. 

	In 1892 Mr. Ingalls was united in marriage to Miss Patience 
Scott, her father being Andrew Scott, also a pioneer of South Dakota. 
They have the following children: Andrew, Gladys, Alice and Vera and 
Verd, twins. Mr. Ingalls gives his political allegiance to the 
republican party and is now serving as a member of the town board. His 
religious faith is that of the Baptist church. He is fond of fishing, 
which affords him both pleasure and recreation. In the community which 
has so long been his home he has won an extensive circle of friends and 
is widely recognized as a substantial agriculturist and esteemed 
citizen.