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Ingalls, Lewis, was born in Hartford, Washington county, June 8, 1817, and when young learned the blacksmith
trade, but has generally been a farmer. At the age of twenty one he began life for himself, working farms in Geneseo,
Livingston county. From here he went to Nunda, Allegany county, where he purchased land; thence to Perry, Wyoming
county, and finally, in 1850, moved to Orleans county, and located three fourths of a mile from Gaines village.
In 1856. Mr. Ingalls purchased his present excellent farm, located in the southeast quarter of the village of Alboin,
and here he has continued to reside until the present time. Lewis Ingalls began life destitute of means, his only
capital being his determination to succeed, coupled with a strong constitution and excellent health. As a farmer
and business man, his life has been abundantly successful, and today he is in the enjoyment of a competency. Until
he was twenty six years of age, Mr. Ingalls's faith was atheistical, but after a long and critical attention gven
to prophetic and historic portions of inspiration was converted and became a true Christian, this change being
the result of his own meditation, unaided by any known human influences. From then until the present time Mr. Ingalls
has devoted much of his life in heralding the gospel among his fellow men, and as an expounder of Bible truths
he has but few equals in the county. His early education was limited, but in his maturer years he became a student
of Greek, was self taught, and is now unquestionably familiar with the classics, and translates Greek scriptures
into English. Mr. Ingalls is not identified with any church society, yet he inclines toward Methodism. In 1838
he was married to Sarah Warren, then a resident of Livingston county, but a native of Massachusetts. Of this marriage
one child was born, Mary L., wife of Foster Udell, a large and successful fruit grower in Brockport, western New
York.
From:
Landmarks of Orleans County, New York
Edited by: Hon. Isaac C. Signor
Assisted by: H. P. Smith and others
D. Mason & Co., Publishers
Syracuse, N. Y. 1894
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