IO: Ingels, W T - Nicholas Co & Bourbon Co

History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 750.
[Nicholas County]  [Carlisle City and Precinct]

W. T. INGELS, farmer, P. O. Millersburg, proprietor of Mt. Pleasant farm,
is a Parisian by birth, being born in the Metropolis of Bourbon County,
July 13, 1819.  His father was Boone Ingels, who was born in 1784 in what
was then Fayette County, now upon the line of Bourbon.  His grandfather
was the owner of a small tract of land in Philadelphia, which he leased
for a given time before coming to Kentucky.  The land subsequently became
very valuable, but the records having been lost, the rightful heirs were
kept from the possession of their property.  The wife of Boone Ingels was
Elizabeth Reed, a native of Lexington and a member of one of the oldest
families of that place.  They had nine children; five sons only are living:
James, in Paris; Thomas, farming near Pleasant Hill, Mo.; W. T.; Dr.
Edward, and George in Cincinnati.  The Ingels were related to Daniel Boone,
hence the name Boone in the family.  The father of our subject was a hatter
by trade and an extensive manufacturer in his business in Paris.  He was
an early settler in the place; carried on his business till [sic] near his
death, amassing quite a fortune.  The subject of this sketch received the
advantages of a subscription school until fifteen years of age, when he
was engaged in the dry goods store of Hugh Brent, in Paris, for one year,
thence to Lexington, where he engaged in merchandising until 1854.  From
1848 until the close of his mercantile career he was in partnership in
the hardware business with his brother Boone (deceased).  Since 1854 he
has been engaged in agriculture and the raising of thoroughbred Cotswold
sheep in Bourbon and Nicholas Counties.  In 1872 he received the
appointment as Storekeeper for the Government; afterward held the different
offices of Special Deputy, Storekeeper and Gauger, which offices he held
for a number of years.  He was married, Dec. 3, 1846, to Mary R. Vimont,
daughter of B. F. Vimont (see hist.).  They had nine children; two died in
infancy.  Those living are F. B., at home; Gertrude, wife of Thomas Savage,
of Millersburg; Sue B., widow of F. R. Jaynes of Paris, who was burned to
death while impersonating "Santa Claus" at a Christmas tree, Dec. 25, 1879;
Alice, wife of Will Judy of Millersburg; John V. and Edward, clerking in
Millersburg; and Owen W. at home.  Mr. Ingels is a staunch Republican, and
with his family are members of the Christian Church.


Transcribed by: Beulah Wiley Franks  
wrfc71a@prodigy.com
17 Jul 1997