“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


ALONZO INGERSOLL,  farmer, Sec. 22;  P.O. Concord; born in 
Vernon, Oneida Co., N.Y., May 6, 1821; spent his early life in his native 
State, and came to Watertown, Wis., in 1842; after one year, he settled 
on the farm he now owns of eighty acres; it was Government land, 
covered with heavy timber.  Mr. Ingersoll worked as a pioneer many 
years, and as a result, has an improved farm and a good home; he 
experienced many of the privations, but had true York State pluck.  
Married Miss Julia Walker in 1847, who died in 1849.  Married Miss 
Adria Hill, of Concord, May 20, 1851; their only son, Julius L., was born 
April 18, 1854; he has spent his life and been educated in his native 
county; was a student at Elroy Seminary about one year, and has taught 
two terms of school in the county; the father and son are Democrats; J.L. 
Ingersoll is a member of Farmington Lodge No. 35, I.O.O.F.


Submitted by:  Linda Pingel  (LPingel@worldnet.att.net)