Porter Ingram

Background

Porter was born on April 2, 1810, in Marlborough, Vermont, the United States into the poor farming family of Jonathan and Mary Polly Underwood.

Education

Ingram attended the common school at Marlborough and graduated from Yale College (now Yale University) in 1831.

Career

Ingram was a New York school teacher until 1836, when he moved south and settled in Hamilton, Harris County, Georgia.

He studied law and later moved to Columbus, Georgia, where he practiced law with Martin Crawford and served as a judge in the city court during the 1850s. Also a successful planter, Ingram did not immediately support secession. During the war, Ingram represented the Sixth District of Georgia in the first Confederate House.

He served on the Committee on Medical Departments. He did not stand for reelection. His career during the remainder of the war is unknown.

After the war, Ingram returned to law practice in Columbus and retired completely from public life.

Achievements

• Porter Ingram was known as a prominent Confederate congressman. He represented Georgia in the Confederate Congress.

Connections

Porter was married twice. His first wife was Sarah Ann Jarratt. In 1860 he married Elizabeth Martin Lewis.

Father:

Jonathan Ingram

1779-1855

Mother:

Mary Polly Underwood

1780-1863

Wife:

Elizabeth Martin Lewis Ingram

1829-1908

ex-wife:

Sarah Ann Jarratt Ingram

1830-1855

Daughter:

Mary Ingram Barnes

1849-1934

Daughter:

Annie Abercrombie Ingram

1862-1864

Son:

Thomas Lewis Ingram

1864-1939

Daughter:

Mattie Freeny Ingram

1865-1868

Daughter:

Bessie Bell Ingram

1866-1868

Daughter:

Bessie Ingram Heuer

1870-1955

Daughter:

Jennie Ella Ingram

1874-1892

References

• Biographical Dictionary of the Confederacy
  1977