JESSE INGERSOLL - Biography

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This biography appears on page 666 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.


JESSE INGERSOLL, farmer, Sec. 27; P. O. Raymond; was born in Canada, in
1809; came to Wisconsin, May 21, 1845, and located on his present
homestead. He married, in 1835, Miss Sarah B. Kelly. She died Oct. 16,
1850. They had six children; lost two. Two of his sons were volunteers
in the late war. John W. enlisted in the Wis. Heavy Artillery; James in
the 22d Wis. V. I., Co. K., and was killed in "Hood's Raid," near
Atlanta, in 1864. In 1852, Mr. Ingersoll married Miss Thomasin Sleeman.
She is a native of England. Mr. Ingersoll has served as Justice of the
Peace for two years, in Raymond. He owns 18O acres of land in Sec. 27,
all under good cultivation.