Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

A. A. INGERSOLL, farmer, Sec. 9; P. O. Lockport; was born in Plainfield, Will Co., IL, Nov. 
20, 1839; he has always been a resident of this county. His mother came with her parents from 
Syracuse, N. Y., in Oct. 1833, and settled upon the farm upon which he now resides, and died 
there. The subject of this sketch lived with them up to the year 1862; he then enlisted in Co. 
G, 100th Regt. I. V. I., serving three months, when he was transferred to the Pioneer Corps of 
the Army of the Cumberland; remained in such from Nov. 27, 1862, to Oct. 8, 1863, and then was 
transferred to the First U. S., Vet. V. Engineers until mustered out, July 2, 1865. Has been 
Town Clerk, and is now Justice of the Peace. He married Miss Fanny M. MYRICK, of Orland, Cook 
Co., March 28, 1866; she was born Sept. 19, 1847; they had three children, two living - Annie 
A., born Oct. 15, 1867, and Walter Judson, born March 19, 1869, and one dead - Florence B., 
born Aug. 1, 1874, and died April 20,1877. His grand parents, Benjamin and Pheobe, came to 
this county in October, 1833, and were among the first settlers in the county, there being 
but very few families, and as the pioneers of this county, they and their families passed 
through the many dangers and hardships only to be found in a new country. In 1847, his 
grandfather, Chester INGERSOLL, crossed the plains to California, and was the first white 
man that built a house in San Francisco. Benjamin WEAVER died March 2, 1870, and Phoebe 
died Nov. 15, 1859, and lie buried in Brooks burying-ground, on Sec. 10, near the homestead.