Andrew INGRAM

INGRAM, SMITH, HADDIX

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 1/23/2009 at 12:45:59

from Biography & Historical Record of Ringgold County, Iowa

Lewis Publishing Company of Chicago, 1887, Pp. 318-19

ANDREW INGRAM

Andrew INGRAM, one of the leading stock dealers of Ringgold County, and one who, by his energy and perseverance, has contributed largely to its interests, came to Ringgold County from Monmouth, Warren County, Illinois, in 1869. He is a native of Scotland, born in Aberdeen, May 29, 1833. When he was eight years of age his parents, George and Jane (SMITH) INGRAM, immigrated to the United States, via Quebec, Canada, and were forty-two days in crossing the ocean in a sailing vessel. Landing at Quebec they proceeded via the lakes to Huron, and thence to Savannah, Ohio, where they lived a number of years, and where Andrew grew to manhood and was educated.

He remained with his parents until twenty-one years old, when he started out to commence the battle of life for himself. For several years he engaged in farming, teaching school during the winter, and then turned his attention to dealing in stock, on a small scale at first, as his means were limited. At that time he was living in Monmouth, Illinois, where he remained until 1869, when he came to Mount Ayr, Iowa, and located in Ringgold County.

His first business in the county was to buy hogs and cattle and drive them, on foot, to Afton and Leon. He has kept steadily at this business until he is now one of the largest buyers and shippers in Southern Iowa. In no year does he ship less than seventy-five car-loads, often reaching as high as 125. He, in addition to his stock business, is one of the largest land-owners in the county, owning 1,000 acres, all well cultivated and well stocked.

For the past eleven years he has been connected with the dry-goods trade, a member of the firm of A. INGRAM & Sons, which is under the direction of his son, A. O. INGRAM. Mr. INGRAM is an enterprising business man, and has contributed largely of his means toward the development and improvement of his adopted county. He has always been a strict temperance man, and has given his influence on the side of law and order.

He was married in 1854, to Miss Hester A. HADDIX, a native of Virginia. They have two sons – A. O. and Wilber B.

NOTE: Andrew INGRAM Andrew INGRAM died at the age of 60 years on September 23, 1893. Hester Ann (HADDIX) INGRAM was born near Phillippi, West Virginia, on December 6, 1832, and died in Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa, on June 3, 1893, aged 60 years. Andrew and Hester were interred at Rose Hill Cemetery, Mount Ayr, Iowa.

SOURCES:
Biography & Historical Record of Ringgold County, Iowa, Pp. 318-19, 1887.

WPA Graves Survey

Transcription and note by Sharon R. Becker, January of 2009