Ingold, Perry Morton, 1875-1936

INGOLD, GREER, BARNARD, MATTHEWS

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Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:35

From the Sioux Center News, March 12, 1936:

Former Prominent Citizen Passed Away in Minneapolis

P. M. Ingold, 60, veteran Minneapolis grain man and founder and director of the Chamber of Commerce Glee club, died early today at Fairview hospital.

Mr. Ingold, whose home was at 5636 Twenty-first avenue S., lived in Minneapolis 30 years. He was associated with the Cereal Grading company. Active in music circles, he was director of the Arion Male chorus at the time of his death.

Funeral services have been tentatively arranged for Monday at the Enger mortuary, with burial in Lakewood cemetery.

Survivors include the widow, a brother, Ernest Ingold of Taylor, N.D., and three sisters, Mrs. Fred Redfield, Sioux Falls, S.D., and Mrs. Fred Dartell and Mrs. Cora Wells, both of Los Angeles. – From the “Minneapolis Star.”

News of the passing of P. M. Ingold, early resident of Sioux Center, was keenly felt by many of his old time friends. Mr. Ingold, better known as “Mort” Ingold, was the son of “Cap” Ingold, a familiar character of the early days. He was married to Agnes Grier, a pioneer teacher in the Sioux Center schools. They resided in the north part of town. Mr. Ingold was a prominent grain buyer and the manager of the Slagle Lumber Co., which was located on the present site of the Farmers Lumber Yard.

Many will recall that Mr. Ingold organized the first band, the first baseball club, the the first regular choir of the First Ref. Church of which the late Rev. De Pree was pastor at the time. He also served on the school board and in the town council.

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RESEARCH NOTES

Minnesota death certificate # 1936-MN-020137 gives his name as Percy Morton Ingold; married, wife Ella; born July 28, 1875 in Osceola, Iowa; parents Lauriston B. Ingold, born in North Carolina, and Adelaide Barnard, born in Indiana; occupation, grain broker, for 40 years, last worked January 1936; died in Fairview Hospital at 3:00 a.m. February 28, 1936; had been under a doctor’s care since January 10, 1936; cause, septic sore throat followed by bilateral suppurative pyelonephritis [kidney infection]; contributory causes, cirrhosis of liver, spenomegaly [enlargement of the spleen], and gall stones.

His FindaGrave.com page gives his birth year as 1876 [no photo of headstone to confirm], and his wife’s [evidently his first wife] name as Agnes Gibbs Greer Ingold (1873-1903).

The Plymouth County marriage register for 1894/1895 has groom Perry Morton Ingold, age 26, resident of Sioux Center, Iowa, a lumber dealer, born in Iowa, parents L. B. Ingold and Adelaide Barnard; bride Agnes Greer, age 22, resident of Le Mars, born in Iowa, parents N. L. Greer and Julia Gibbs; married at Le Mars April 11, 1895.

The 1900 U.S. census shows Perry M. (30) and Agnes (26) Ingold living in Spencer, Clay County, Iowa, where he is a grain dealer. It gives his birth date as July 1869.

The Minnesota Marriages Index on Ancestry.com has Perry M. Ingold and Estella B. Matthews married in Minneapolis 31 January 1906.

In the 1910 census Perry M. (40) and Estelle (26) are living in Minneapolis, where he is a real estate agent. In the 1920 census, still in Minneapolis, he is a grain dealer. His age is given as 48 and Estelle’s as 44 – which cannot be accurate, as his widowed mother-in-law Emma J. Matthews is living with them, and her age is given as 55.