Background
Orrin Henry Ingram, Senior was born on June 26, 1904 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. His father, Erskine B. Ingram, was a lumber heir. His mother was Harriet Coggshall.
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Hank Ingram
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Career
In 1928, ran a textile firm in Tennessee owned by his wife"s family. He relocated it to Nashville, Tennessee. By 1937, at the time of the textile strike, he sold half his investment and acquired Wood River Oil and Refining, an oil company based in Saint Louis, Missouri.
He was the owner of Oil & Refining, a chain of 240 gas stations headquartered in Meraux, just outside New Orleans, Louisiana.
In 1961, he sold the company to Murphy Oil. served as the Vice President of the Board of Trust of Vanderbilt University in Nashville from 1952 to 1963. He died of a heart attack on April 25, 1963 in Nashville, Tennessee.
He was buried at the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville. The Hank House on the campus of Vanderbilt University was named in his honor in 2006.
Membership
His great-uncle, Julius Ingram, was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
