INGHRAM, WM. D.

INGHRAM, COALTER

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 10/26/2025 at 20:38:54

BURLINGTON CITY.
(P. O. BURLINGTON)

INGHRAM, WM. D., Principal of North Oak St. School ; res. 923 N. Oak St. ; is now engaged for the thirteenth year in connection with the city schools, having become Principal of Germania School in 1865 ; he is emphatically a Burlington boy ; his parents were married in this county ; he was born here July 30, 1840 ; was educated within fifteen miles of the city ; read law with Starr & Phelps here, and commenced his work as a teacher in this county in 1859. His wife, Miss S. M. Coalter is a native of Henry Co., born in 1842 ; they have five children living. Mr. Inghram has been longer connected with the city schools than any other teacher now employed by the Board ; has been Principal of N. Oak St. School since 1870; his city property is worth about $1,500.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF DES MOINES COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879