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H. M. INGLER,
general foreman in the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company's shops at Chicago
Junction, is a son of Joseph and Eliza A. (Baldwin) Ingler, natives
of Maryland and Pennsylvania, respectively. The father was brick
manufacturer, and carried on that industry from youth to old age. To
Joseph and Eliza A. Ingler nine children were born - five sons and
four daughters - H. M. being the second in order of birth.
H. M. Ingler was born December 3, 1828, in
Columbiana county, Ohio, where he received his education. At the age
of seventeen years he was apprenticed to machinist at Steubenville, Ohio,
serving a full term of four years in the McDevitt shops. In 1850
Mr. Ingler joined a party of Argonauts, and made the journey to
California, where he remained four years. In 1856, some two years
after his return, he found employment in the shops of the P. C. C. & St. L.
Railroad, then known as the Steubenville & Indiana Railroad, at
Steubenville, and in 1857 began work in the B. & O. Railroad Company's
shops, at Wheeling, W. Va., since which time, with the exception of five
months, he has been continuously in their employ. He worked at
Wheeling (W. Va.), Bellaire and Chicago Junction (Ohio) and at Garrett
(Ind.). For twenty years he was general foreman at Bellaire, and for
six months master mechanic at Garrett. In July, 1885, he came to the
Chicago Junction shops as general foreman.
On July 20, 1854, Mr. Ingler married Mary A.
Burt, daughter of Isaac Burt, at Wheeling, W. Va., and to their
union the following named children were born: George Eldorado,
who was killed by a locomotive at Bellaire, Ohio; Viola E., wife of
W. A. RAug, a brakeman, on this division of the B. & O. R. R.
(she was twice married, first time at Bellaire, Belmont Co., Ohio, to
James McGraw, who was killed at Bellaire while in the service of
the B. & O. R. R> Company as fireman, to which union was born one daughter;
after a widowhood of eleven years, Mrs. McGraw married W. A.
Rang); Kate T., wife of G. W. Deyarmon, owner of a paint store at
Bellaire, and also a contractor; Florence, who died in infancy;
Martha M., wife of J. L. Milligan, a shoe merchant of Bellaire;
Emma, wife of L. C. Hess, formerly of Wheeling, W. Va.,
now of Chicago Junction; Josephine A., wife of Sherman Williams,
a farmer of Huron county, and Miriam E., Bessie M., Edna R. and
Hiram K., residing with their parents.
During the war of the Rebellion, Mr. Ingler was
a strong Unionist. He enlisted in the Ohio National Guard, in 1861,
for a term of five years, and in May, 1864, went into the United States
army, One Hundred and Seventieth Regiment, O. V. I., for 100 days service;
was in active service in the Shenandoah Valley until September 30, 1864,
when he was honorably discharged at Columbus, from which point he returned
to his duties with the B. & O. R. R. At Bellaire he was a member of
the board of Water-works trustees for three successive terms, and one of the
promoters of the water system of that city. At Chicago Junction he was
president of the school board for three years, and ever a strong advocate of
fine school buildings. Politically a Republican, he has always been
loyal to the party. In social affairs he belongs to the Order of Good
Templars, to the I. O. O. F., to the Masonic Fraternity, and to the Ancient
Order of Druids. The entire family affiliate with the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
Source: Commemorative Biographical Records of the counties of
Huron and Lorain, Ohio - Illustrated - Published: Chicago: J. H. Beers &
Co., 1894 - Page 259 |
