California Biographies

Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


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.