Ingraham, Ira

Ingraham, Ira a Congregational minister, was born at Cornwall, Vt., Dec. 1, 1791, and educated at Middlebury College, where he graduated in 1815. After teaching for a time in the Southern States, pursuing also his theological studies, he was licensed to preach by the Addison Association, Addison. Vt., June 3, 1819. May 1820, the Congregational church in Orvill was offered him, and he was there ordained June 20, 1820. He left this charge in 1822, and after supplying several pulpits, and acting for a brief period as agent of the "Presbyterian Education Society," he was installed over the Congregational church at West Bradford, Mass., Dec. 1,1824. In 1830 he removed to Brandon, Vt., and in 1834 left that place to assume the duties of secretary of the Vermont Domestic Missionary Society. In 1839 he accepted a call to the Presbyterian Church at Lyons, N. Y. In 1848 he returned to the church at Brandon, but declined to be reinstalled, and finally accepted the position as agent of the "Society for the promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education at the West," making Western New York his field of labor. He retired from this and all other active work five years after, and only preached at intervals. He died April 9,1864. Ingraham published five sermons (1826,1843,1844,1847, and 1848). — Congregational Quarterly, 1864, p. 300.