Barton B. Ingraham,  is one of the substantial farmers of Harter Township, living in Section 12, Town 3 north, Range 6 east. He was born in Wabash County, Ill., April 3, 1825. His parents, Henry and Angeline Ingraham, were very early settlers in Wabash County, but while Barton B. was a mere child, they removed to Ohio, and in 1839 they again removed, this time going to the State of Pennsylvania, which was for many years their home. The father died in Ohio while"on a visit, and the mother subsequently removed to Illinois, and died in Clay County in 1879. B. B. Ingraham was reared to the pursuits of the farm, to which he has ever clung with a persistency which has insured his success. He now owns more than 600 acres of valuable land in Clay County. He was married in Pennsylvania, in 1847, to Jane C. Johnston. She is a daughter of Joseph and Martha Johnston, and was born in Pennsylvania September 27, 1827. Mr. Ingraham came to Illinois and to Clay County in 1861, first locating in the village of Flora, where he and Mr. Frederick Pierce erected one of the first mills of the town. He, however, soon abandoned this business to engage in that of farming. Mr.  and Mrs. Ingraham are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Flora. They have been blessed with a family of fourteen children, two of whom died in infancy unnamed.  The others are Lauretta, wife of John Tanner, of Louisville, born November 28, 1847; Virgil S., born January 15, 1849, and died April 24, 1862; Leverett J., born September 19, 1850; LeanderH, born March 4, 1852; Cerissa B., wife of D. C. Hagle, was born October 24, 1854; Isadora, born September 6, 1856, and died September 1, 1872; Alpheus F., born April 12, 1858;  Justin M., born January 26, 1860, and died in Kansas; William E. E., born September 1, 1862; Mary E., born August 26, 1865; Martha A., born November 17, 1867; and Joseph H„ born April 23, 1870.  Excerpted from "History of Wayne and Clay Counties, Illinois 1884 "