Tyler County, West Virginia Biography of CORLEY RAYMOND INGRAM This file was submitted by Valerie Crook, E-mail address: The submitter does not have a connection to the subject of this sketch. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 453 Tyler CORLEY RAYMOND INGRAM while a young man for his responsibilities as county superintendent of schools of Tyler County, is exceptionally well qualified for leadership in educational affairs. He is himself a man of thorough education, high ideals, a splendid character, and has given a most energetic administration of school matters and in a way to set new standards of efficiency in the county. Mr. Ingram was born at Alvy, Tyler County, May 3, 1896. His father, Jarrett Trainor Ingram, a son of Nathan Ingram, was born in Tyler County in 1851, and has spent all his life in the county. He now lives at Pursley. For a number of years his interests were those of a farmer, but he early became identified with the development of the oil resources in the Sistersville field, has been a contractor, and is still one of the heavy producers in that section. He is a republican and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Jarrett T. Ingram married Hannah Jane Mc- Intyre, who was born at Alvy, Tyler County, in 1874. Her father, James McIntyre, was also born at Alvy, in 1841, has been a merchant and an extensive farmer, and still owns the large farm on Pursley Creek where he resides. He is a democrat in politics. James McIntyre married Agnes Underwood, who was born in Tyler County in 1844. They had a family of six children: Ikey M., connected with the Goodrich Eubber Company at Akron, Ohio; Pearlie, wife of Emanuel Elder, a farmer at Marysville, Ohio; Laura, who died at the age of nineteen; Hannah Jane, Mrs. Ingram; Anna, wife of David L. Core, a school teacher at Pursley; and Benjamin Cleveland, an oil operator and producer at Sistersville. The children of Jarrett T. Ingram and wife were: Laura Frances, wife of Louis Averele Gorrell, owner of a public garage at Middlebourne; Miss Zelda May, at home; Corley R.; Frederick Gay, a graduate of the County High School and assisting his father in the oil business and on the farm; Paul McClairn, who attended the County High School two years and now works for his father; Norwood Trainor, a student in the County High School; and Ruth Underwood, attending the Middlebourne Grade School. Corley Raymond Ingram first came in contact with the rural schools of Tyler County as a pupil. For two years he attended grade school at Sistersville, graduated in the regular course and the teachers training course from the Tyler County High School in 1917, and took two years of training in the West Liberty State Normal School in Ohio County. Mr. Ingram taught his first school at the age of twenty years, looking after the rural school of Coal Valley. In November, 1918, he was elected county superintendent, and began his term of four years July 1, 1919. Under his administrative supervision as county superintendent are 161 schools, with a corps of 161 teachers and a scholar- ship enrollment of 4,500. Mr. Ingram is also president of the Board of Directors of the Tyler County High School and is a member of the State Educational Association and the National Education Association. While in normal school at West Liberty he was a member of the Webster Literary Society and the Bryants Literary Society, and also secretary of the Y. M. C. A. Poor eyesight caused his rejection when he applied for service in the World war, but he did all he could as a speaker and participant in the various local drives. He is a republican, a member of the Church of Christ, and is owner of an attractive resi- dence in Middlebourne. December 25, 1919, at Wheeling, Mr. Ingram married Miss Ada Lallathin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Lalla- thin, who live in Monroe County, Ohio, where her father owns a large farm. Mr. and Mrs. Ingram have one daugh- ter, Mary Katheryn, born July 15, 1921.