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Charles Phillip Ingalls was the father of Laura Ingalls Wilder, known for her Little House on the Prairie series of books. He was born January 10, 1836, in Cuba, New York, the second of nine children of Landsford and Laura Colby Ingalls.
On February 1, 1860 he married Caroline Quiner and they had five children, Mary, Laura, Carrie, Freddy and Grace. Freddy died as an infant.
In the 1840s, the family of young Charles Ingalls moved from New York to the tallgrass prairie of Campton Township, just west of Elgin, Illinois. Ingalls is better known as "Pa" from the Little House on the Prairie books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
He loved traveling and didn't like living among big crowds of people, so together with his family, he traveled a lot and often changed homes. They settled down for good in De Smet, South Dakota where he died on June 8, 1902, at the age of 66. He was buried at De Smet Cemetery.
Little House on the Prairie
Ingalls was portrayed in the television adaptation of Little House on the Prairie by actor Michael Landon, in Beyond the Prairie movies by Richard Thomas, and in the newest miniseries by Cameron Bancroft.External Links
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