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Biography
Darwin Ingalls
Biographical Review
Cumberland County, Maine
Boston
Biographical Review Publishing Company
1896
Pages 230-233

Darwin Ingalls, for many years an esteemed and influential citizen of Bridgton,
Me., his native place, owner of the Ingalls homestead which lies about five miles
southwest of Bridgton Centre, was born on July 11, 1822.  He was a son of Asa and
Phoebe Ingalls, both natives of Bridgton.

His paternal grandfather, Phineas Ingalls, who was born in Massachusetts, in the
town of Middleton, Essex County, November 14, 1758, was the first of the family
to locate in Cumberland County.  While residing in Massachusetts, he joined the
Continental army; and after the close of the Revolution, about 1783, he removed
to the State of Maine, purchasing some five hundred acres of wild land in
Bridgton.  He devoted the rest of his life to clearing and improving this land,
and established a fine homestead, which is yet in the family, having been handed
down from father to son.  Grandfather Ingalls was married in Bridgton, in 1783,
to Elizabeth Stevens.  They reared nine children, four sons and five daughters.

Asa Ingalls, son of Phineas, was born on the Ingalls homestead, January 14, 1787.
He too, devoted his life to agriculture, the broad acres of his heritage
affording him an ample income.  He regularly visited the polls on election days,
depositing his ballot in the interest of the Democratic party, but was not an
aspirant for public office.  He died in 1852.  In 1816 he was married to Phoebe
Berry, daughter of Elias and Jane Berry.  She died in 1864.  Mr. and Mrs. Asa
Ingalls attended the Congregational church.  They were the parents of the
following children:  Clarissa, who married Colonel John P. Perley; Henry, a
practicing attorney-at-law, residing in Wiscasset, Me.; Edwin P. (deceased);
Darwin, the subject of this sketch; Mary, wife of Benjamin B. Frost, of Ohio;
Aaron H. (deceased); Laura B., widow of Edwin Fessenden of South Bridgton; Aldana
T. (deceased); Phineas B. (deceased); and a child who died in infancy.

Darwin Ingalls acquired his education in the district schools and the academy of
his native town.  Shortly after leaving school as a student, he engaged as a
teacher; and for six years he divided his time between teaching and faming,
spending winter days in the school house, the summer in the pursuit of
agriculture.  In 1850 he went West and remained a few months in Minnesota and
Wisconsin, purchasing real estate in St. Paul and timber land elsewhere, which
proved a good investment. During his after life he made many trips to the West,
both on business and pleasure.  After his father's death he took charge of the
homestead in Bridgton, and devoted much of his time to general farming; and under
his intelligent management the ancestral estate was at its best.  Mr. Ingalls was
a man of liberal and progressive ideas, which were further developed by his
travels in the West; and h was a recognized authority on agricultural subjects.

In politics also he took a leading part as a Democrat.  Her represented the
district in legislature two terms, was Selectman of the town of Bridgton a number
of years, and held other offices of trust.  His death, which occurred January 27,
1890, caused a sense of irreparable loss in the community.

On May 30, 1852, Mr. Ingalls was united in marriage wit Mary J. Patrick, a native
of Denmark, Me., daughter of James and Huldah (Berry) Patrick, and the following
children blessed their union:  Aldana T., a civil engineer residing Wisconsin,
who married Fannie Berry, and has one child, Marian E; George A., a real estate
broker in Boston; Alberta A., the father's successor as manager of the home farm,
who married September 5, 1895, Miss Laura E. Johnson, of Bridgton; and three
children that died in infancy.  Mrs. Ingalls is still living in the home where
her children were born and reared.  Ste attends the Congregational church, to
whose support her husband liberally contributed.

A portrait of Mr. Darwin Ingalls is shown in connection with the foregoing
sketch.  He was a worthy scion of old Colonial stock, belonging to a family whose
progenitors were among the earliest white inhabitants of Essex County,
Massachusetts, and were connect by marriage with other leading families of the
Bay State.