ROBERT INGRAM, of section 13, Keg Creek Township, first came to Pottawattamie County in 1872. He was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, August 30, 1832, the son of James and Jane (Sterling) Ingram. Both were born in Ayrshire and lived there until they died, the mother dying when Robert was only four years old, while the father died about two years ago, in 1888, at the advanced age of ninety years.

Robert received his education and was reared to farm work in his native place. At twenty years of age he left his native land and came to the United States, and resided for two months near New Amsterdam, New York, and then went to Chicago, when that place was but a small town. He then removed to LaPorte County, Indiana, where he resided ten or fifteen years, working out by the month mostly. His next move was to Kankakee Illinois, and later in 1872, he moved his family to Iowa, driving first to Morris, Illinois, and from there shipped his household furniture by railroad to Iowa. They bought 320 acres of land from the Rock Island Railroad Company, where his son, Andrew Lincoln, now lives on 10 acres of this land. Mr. Ingram erected his house in 1883, at a cost of $2,500, which is surrounded by shade and ornamental trees.

He was married in LaPorte County, Indiana, when twenty-eight years of age, to Miss Eliza Cain, a native of Ohio, and they have one child. A year after his marriage his wife died, and he was married some time later in Indiana to Miss Melissa M. Murphy, who was reared in Porter and LaPorte Counties, Indiana. They have three children: Andrew Lincoln, who is married and resides near his father: Martha, the wife of Poland Ward of this township, Rob Marion, at home. Politically Mr. Ingram is a Republican, and is a member of the Methodist Church at Silver City, but that society is now building a church at Silver Creek, calling themselves the Lone Star Class.