Caledonia

INGALLS, Joseph H.

Vermont Historical Magazine, No. XI, October 1867, p 419
(extracted from a section on the history of Sheffield, Caledonia County, 
Vermont)

Hon. Joseph H. INGALLS, father of the Hon. John P. INGALLS of this town 
[Sheffield, Caledonia County, Vermont], was born in 1774 in Madbury, 
Massachusetts [Madbury, Strafford County, New Hampshire?]. Came into 
Wheelock [Caledonia County, Vermont] about 1797, where he married Comfort 
WEEKS, daughter of Capt. Joshua WEEKS of that town with little or no 
property, but by industry and strict attention to business became a wealthy 
man. At one time he owned nearly all the land where our village [Sheffield] 
is now situated. He was one of the most influential citizens in the place, 
and for a long series of years held responsible offices in town. He was a 
member of the Vermont Legislature eighteen years, and of the senate one year. 
As a man of sound judgment and thorough business habits, he probably never 
had a superior in town. His decease [the death of Joseph H. INGALLS] 
occurred 14 June 1850, aged seventy-six years.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly