SAMUEL H. INGERSOLL
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Prominent for many years in the business interests of Forest City and of Mason county, has been the individual whose name heads this sketch. He was born in 1828, in Medina county, Ohio. In 1849 he went from Cleveland, Ohio, to California, and remained there until 1855, when he came to Mason county, which has since been his home. He married in 1859 to Miss Lois A. Van Orman, of Ohio, and their very pleasant home ornaments the side of one of those beautiful undulations or prairie swells south of Forest City. His business has been farming and milling, and his rare judgment and business tact has made both financial successes. He has been called by his neighbors to serve them at various dates and in various humble but useful home offices, in township and schools; but is has been in continued re-elections and long and efficient service on the county board of supervisors that his judgment and influence have been most useful to the people of Mason county. Mr. Ingersoll is one of those rare combinations of pleasant, genial sociability, and square, rigid, frank business talent. The ornamentations that surround their tasteful residence indicate refinement and aesthetic cultivation, the more valuable on account of its rarity. Mr. Ingersoll is the artificer of his own fortune; self-reliant and prudent, consequently successful, illustrating the fact that the shadows that cross the pathway of our lives are those we make by standing in our own light.

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