Biography of Claude E. Ingalls, 1922, State of Oregon Surnames: Ingalls, Lockwood, Caldwell ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives (http://files.usgwarchives.net) to store the file permanently for free access and not to be removed separately without written permission. ************************************************************************ Transcribed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: W. David Samuelsen - January 2002 ************************************************************************ History of Oregon, Vol. 2; The Pioneer Historical Publishing Company, pub. 1922, page 11-12 CLAUDE E. INGALLS. Claude E. Ingalls is the editor of the Corvallis Gazette-Times, a live, up-to-date newspaper. He was born in Plainfleld, Iowa, August 27, 1877, a son of Orlo and Emily (Lockwood) Ingalls. The father is a native of West Bend, Wisconsin, and his ancestral record can be traced back in the United States to 1628. He followed the occupation of farming in Wisconsin and in 1880 made his way to the Pacific coast country, locating at Vancouver, Washington. He engaged in the operation of sawmills In Washington and Oregon and also in the conduct of farming interests in those states and in Dakota. In 1898 be returned to Wisconsin and later went to Topeka, Kansas, where he now resides. The mother is deceased. She was born in Hyde Park, London, England, and passed away at Vancouver, Washington, in 1895. Claude E. Ingalls was reared and educated in Wisconsin and Kansas, being graduated from the high school at Washington, Kansas, with the class of 1897. Subsequently he engaged in teaching school in the Sunflower state for seven years, during which period he also studied law. He was admitted to the bar in Kansas in June, 1902, and practiced his profession in that state for about fifteen years. He then entered the newspaper field and purchased the Washington (Kansas) Republican in August, 1904, while in the following year he became owner of the Register, consolidating the two papers. In 1915 he came to Oregon and purchased the Gazette-Times at Corvallis, of which he has since been editor. In 1916 he sold a half interest In the Gazette-Times to Charles L. Springer, who became business manager. In 1917 N. R. Moore was taken into partnership as news editor and they have made a very readable and attractive journal, devoted to the interests of the community in which they live and to the dissemination of general news. They have Introduced the most progressive methods in management and publication and the Gazette-Times now enjoys the largest circulation of any paper in the county. Mr. Ingalls has twice been elected president of the Oregon State Editorial Association. In 1920 he was elected councilman at large for the city of Corvallis. On the 2d of May, 1906, Mr. Ingalls was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth E. Caldwell, and they have became the parents of two children, namely: Alice, who was born in June, 1911; and Robert, whose birth occurred in February, 1916. In his political views Mr. Ingalls is a republican and during the administration of President Taft he was appointed postmaster of Washington, Kansas, in which office be rendered such efficient service that he was retained by President Wilson, filling the position for a period of four years. That he is a patriotic and public-spirited citizen was shown during the World war when he served as chairman of the County Council of Defense and also as chairman or secretary of all Liberty loan drives. In religious faith he is a Presbyterian and in Masonry he has attained high rank, being a thirty-second degree Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine. He is likewise connected with the Modern Woodmen of America, the Knights of Pythias and the sons of the American Revolution, while his Interest in the welfare and advancement of his city is indicated in his membership in the Corvallis Commercial Club, of which he is the president. He is ever loyal to any cause which he espouses and to the standards of life which he has set up for himself, and he is numbered as one of the progressive men and reliable citizens of Corvallis, enjoying the friendship, confidence and regard of all with whom he has been associated.