BIOGRAPHIES:  Jonathan A. INGHAM, Frankfort Township, Pepin Co., WI

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Jonathan A. Ingham (deceased) was born in Springport, Oneida county, N. Y., April 
21, 1821.  His parents were Joshua W. and Hiza (Haines) Ingham, the former of German 
and the latter of English descent.  They had four children:  Delia A. L. (Mrs. J. 
Evarts), Jonathan A., Sarah M. (Mrs. S. Lincoln) and William B.  Jonathan A. was 
taken, when one year of age, by his parents, to Rensselaer county, N. Y., thence 
to northern Pennsylvania, near Elmira, N. Y., and from there to Seneca county, 
N. Y., where he learned the trade of a painter.  In 1840 the family removed to 
Lenawee county, Mich., and Jonathan spent the next few years in different parts of 
the south and west, following his trade.  He first visited Chicago in 1842, and was 
in twenty-five different states and territories during his life.  Returning to 
Calhoun county, Mich., he married, July 9, 1858, Miss Martha, daughter of George 
and Charlotte (Barger) Morehouse, the former a native of Connecticut, and the latter 
of German descent.  Mrs. Ingham was born at Ballston, Saratoga county, N. Y.  When she 
was five years old her parents removed to Calhoun county, Mich., and, in 1858, to 
Florence, Minn., where they afterward died.  Mr. and Mrs. Ingham had four children:  
Alice A. (Mrs. G. L. Keith), Hattie (Mrs. F. S. Vosburg), Nora (Mrs. A. B. Grannis) 
and Ed G.  The last named lives with his mother on the homestead.  He was married 
January 20, 1890, to Miss Hannah Elizabeth Lenhart, and has one child, Ray.  December 
22, 1863, Mr. Ingham enlisted in Company M, Second Minnesota cavalry, and was 
stationed successively at Fort Wadsworth, Dak., Rum River and Fort Ripley.  He was 
discharged December 4, 1865.  In 1869 he removed to Florence, Minn., where he worked 
at farming and carpentering.  In 1874 he came to Frankfort township, Pepin county, 
and purchased the farm whereon he died, December 25, 1891, aged seventy years and 
eight months.

-Transcribed from the "Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa Valley
Wisconsin, 1891-2," pages 777 & 778


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