ARNOLD A. INGRAM, was born in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, in 1843, and came to Wooster in 1866.  He read law with the late Hon. John McSweeney, at tended the Cincinnati Law College from which he graduated and was admitted to the Ohio bar.  In 1861 he entered the military service of the United States and served four months in Company D., 169th Regiment O. N. G. In 1885 he was elected City Solicitor of Wooster on the Republican ticket.  He was quiet and unassuming and ambitious to become a good lawyer. Modesty was one of his characteristics and his manners, which are "the garments of character" were unostentatious and natural.
Source: The Lawyers of Wayne County, Ohio from 1812 to 1900 by Ben Douglas, Author of "History of Wayne Co., Ohio" - Clapper Printer Company, Publishers, Wooster, Ohio - 1900 - Page 238