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James Covington Ingman
James Covington Ingman has lived in Kansas since 1885, and accumulated
and until recent years actively managed a large amount of farming property
in the vicinity of Barnes. He is now living retired, at the age of
seventy-eight, and had made his own way in the world since early boyhood.
Mr. Ingman was born at Summerford in Madison County, Ohio, June 14, 1839.
He is of English ancestry. One of his ancestors served in the
Revolutionary war. The family were early settlers in Tennessee and later
in Virginia. His grandfather, Henry Ingman was born in Virginia in 1777,
and at an early date located in Ohio and was a farmer in Fairfield County
until his death in 1863. He married Henrietta Rigby, also a native of
Virginia, and she died in Fairfield County, Ohio.
Otho William Ingman, father of James C., was born in Fairfield County,
Ohio, in 1813, a date which indicates the very early settlement of the
family there. He grew up and married in his native county and was an
industrious worker nearly all his life at the blacksmith's trade. From
Fairfield he removed to Madison County, where his son James C. was born,
and later to Union County, Ohio, and died at Marysville in that county in
1869. He began voting as a Whig and subsequently affiliated with the
republican party. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and of
the Masonic fraternity. Otho W. Ingman married Matilda Birky, who was born
at Newark in Licking County, Ohio, in 1815 and died at Summerford in 1852.
Her children were: Samuel, deceased; James C.; Theodore and Maria,
deceased; Fannie E., who is unmarried and lives at Muskogee, Oklahoma; and
Conrad M., deceased. For his second wife the father married Elizabeth
Turner, who was born in Madison County and died in Union County, Ohio. By
this marriage there were three children: Lydia, who lives at Muskogee,
Oklahoma, widow of William Smith, a hotel man; Henrietta is the wife of
Al. Hare, a real estate man in Oklahoma; and Otho, a merchant tailor at
Mechanicsburg, Ohio.
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James C. Ingman received his
early education in the rural schools of Fairfield County, Ohio, and
also attended an academy at London in that state. From the age of
ten years he was employed more or less regularly at the occupation
of farming. In the spring of 1864 he enlisted in Company I of the
One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Ohio Infantry, and was in service with
that regiment until mustered out in September, 1864. Previously, in
1863, he had assisted in organizing the Ohio State Guards.
After the war Mr. Ingman lived for the most part in Fairfield
County, Ohio, until he came to Kansas in 1885 and located at Barnes.
As a farmer he was more than ordinarily successful and he still
owned a place of forty acres in Barnes Township, another of 160
acres in Little Blue Township, and another quarter section in the
same township. |
His home is a half mile north of Barnes. In politics Mr. Ingman is a
progressive republican, is past noble grand of Amanda Lodge No. 548,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in Ohio, and was formerly affiliated
with Barnes Post of the Grand Army of the Republic.
On August 12, 1860, in Fairfield County, Ohio, he married Miss Telitha
Jane Swope. She was born in Fairfield County, in 1838, and died at Barnes,
Kansas, in June, 1912, two months prior to their fiftieth wedding
anniversary. Eight children were born to their marriage. Ada, the oldest,
died unmarried at Barnes, in 1913. Samuel is a contractor and electrician
living at Savannah, Georgia. Lefever died on the home farm at Barnes in
1890, at the age of twenty-seven. Theodore, who makes his home with his
father, is county agent for the Farmers Union, with offices in Washington,
Kansas. R. L. is a contractor and railroad man in Old Mexico. Bertha is
still at home. Myrtle Matilda died in Ohio, aged two years. C. B. Ingman,
the youngest child, had taken a homestead of 320 acres in Oklahoma.
Source: "A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans",
compiled by William E. Connelley, Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1918.
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