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INGRAM, J. C. W. Is a native of Gallatin County, Illinois, and was born April 4, 1829. Here he received his
education, and resided on a farm until 1844, when he went to Missouri, where he spent about two years. The next
two years were spent in Iowa and Wisconsin; after which he returned to Missouri, and in the spring of 1849 he turned
his face towards Oregon, where he arrived, after a six months' journey with ox teams, the last of October. Here
he followed lumbering until the spring of 1851, when he came to California and followed mining at different places
until September, 1857, when he came to Lake County and located in Big Valley, where he followed farming and stock
raising until 1867, when he settled on his present place, consisting of two hundred acres, located in Scotts Valley,
where he is engaged in farming and stock raising. Mr. Ingram, during the years 1858-9, held the office of Constable,
and in the fall of 1873 was elected Sheriff of Lake County, which office he held four years. He married, August
28, 1858, Miss Mandana A. Musick, a native of Missouri They have six children: Luella C., John L, Mary R., Sarah
A., Ruth and Maud. Have lost two: William R. and Preston.
From:
History of Napa and Lake Counties, California
Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers
San Francisco, California 1881
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