Edward Randolph Ingle Biography

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	Ogle & Co., Chicago, 1898. Pages 452-453

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EDWARD RANDOLPH INGLE, one of the most intelligent and public spirited 
citizens of Alton township, Brookings county, was born in Cincinnati, 
Ohio, March 6, 1851, a son of Randolph and Mary Jane (Wood) Ingle, now 
of Rushville, Indiana. Randolph Ingle was born near Alexandria, 
Virginia.  His father was a native of Pennsylvania and of Scotch 
lineage, and his wife was born in England.  Randolph Ingle was a 
cabinet maker by trade.  About 1851 he entered the car shops of the C. 
H. & D. railroad at Cincinnati, Ohio, where he worked about thirty-
three years.  In 1886 he came to Dakota and lived in Sully county a few 
years, and is now living in retirement at Rushville, at the age of 
nearly eighty years. Mrs. Mary Jane Ingle was born in Cincinnati, and 
is now seventy years of age.  She is a daughter of James H. Wood, a 
business man of that city, later of Rush county, Indiana.  His wife, 
Elizabeth Purkey was a native of Pennsylvania, and of German ancestry.  
She died May 18, 1897, at the age of ninety-one years.

Edward R. Ingle, the subject of this sketch, lived in Cincinnati until 
nineteen years of age.  He attended the public school of that place and 
spent two years in the office of the "Daily Times," and later was 
employed in a grocery store as a clerk.  In 1870 he left home and made 
a trip through Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri and 
Kansas, then worked a few months on the Kansas Pacific railroad.  The 
next spring he went to Chicago and worked for two seasons in a brick 
yard, and after spending a year or two more, he went to the lumber 
camps of Wisconsin.  In the spring of 1878 he came to Brookings county, 
South Dakota, and took a homestead in section 20, Alton township, and 
has resided there continuously since excepting one winter spent in 
Wisconsin and one in Minnesota.  During this time he has enlarged his 
farm until it now contains 390 acres, nearly all under cultivation and 
is well improved.

Mr. Ingle was married, September 10, 1881, to Miss Loretta W. Judd, 
daughter of Edward and Lucinda L. Judd who came to Brookings county in 
1880.  Mrs. Ingle was born at Rubicon, Wisconsin.  Edward Judd was born 
at Great Barrington, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, and removed from 
thence to Ohio, and, in 1848, to Rubicon, Wisconsin.  In March, 1880, 
he moved to Brookings county, South Dakota, and took a homestead in 
section 17, Alton township.  His father, Bela Judd, was a native of 
Connecticut, and his wife, Martha Pitchard, was a daughter of Benjamin 
Pitchard, a veteran of the Revolutionary war who spent seven years in 
that service under General Washington, and was then discharged six 
hundred miles from his home in Massachussetts, paid in Continental 
currency which would neither buy a meal nor pay a mile of stage fare 
and he was obliged to walk home depending upon charity for a 
livelihood.  Mrs. Lucinda L. Judd was born in New York and died January 
15, 1891, at the age of fifty-five years.  Her maiden name was Lucinda 
L. Dillon.

Mr. and Mrs. Ingle have been blessed in their wedded life by the 
presence of four children, upon whom they have bestowed the following 
names: Cora L., Elsie L., Orin E. and William R., who died at the age 
of two years.  The family attend the Methodist church.  Mr. Ingle is 
public-spirited, broad-minded, and has been one of the important 
factors in bringing about the present state of growth and development 
to which Alton township has attained and has almost continuously filled 
township offices.  Politically he has been a staunch Populist since the 
organization of that party and in the fall of 1896 was nominated on 
that ticket for clerk of the courts, but was defeated by a small 
majority. Since 1891 he has been employed by the secretary of 
agriculture to report farm statistics from Brookings county, and has 
reported regularly each month.