Arthur B. Ingram, Inghram or Ingraham was a farmer, originally from Tyler County in what was then Virginia.
Legislative service Ingram (as he was then known) served five one-year terms in the Virginia House of Delegates representing Tyler County: 1815–1816, 1816–1817, 1826–1827, 1827–1828 and 1828–1829."Arthur Ingram: Member From: 1815 - 1829" in, House History: All Burgesses & Delegates Virginia General Assembly website. Accessed August 30, 2021 His sister Sarah was the mother of Arthur Ingram Boreman, later first Governor of West Virginia.
Moving on He moved to Illinois, and then to the Wisconsin TerritoryScott, Harvey Whitefield. History of Portland, Oregon: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Prominent Citizens and Pioneers Syracuse, New York: D. Mason & Company, 1890; p. 471 and served in the 1st Wisconsin Territorial Assembly from 1836 to 1838 representing the southern part of what would soon become the Iowa Territory in the Territorial Council (equivalent of a state senate). He was elected President of the council for the 2nd (1837) session of the legislature, and for a subsequent special session in 1838.Beck, J. D., ed. The Blue Book of the state of Wisconsin Madison: Democrat Printing Company, State Printer, 1911; pp. 528-529 Iowa Territory was created July 4, 1838.
His fourth daughter and eighth child, Margaret Fee Ingraham, married W. W. Chapman.Nolan, Frederick W. The Lincoln County War: A Documentary History Revised Edition with a New Foreword by the Author and An Addendum with Corrections. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Sunstone Press, 2009; p. 451
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