The past and present of Vermilion County, Illinois .. . l privileges which preparethem for later duties in life—he began earn-ing his own livelihood, working at farmlabor until he reached the age of then went to Detroit, ^Michigan, wherehe spent a few months, and then returned toMarion county, Ohio, where he remaineduntil 1855, when he came to Grant town-ship, Vermilion county, Illinois, tin com-pany with Thomas Hoopes, who purchasedabout fourteen hundred acres of land. Fortwenty-three years Mr. Ingle remained withMr. Hoopes, each year earning more andmore largely the confidence of
The past and present of Vermilion County, Illinois .. . l privileges which preparethem for later duties in life—he began earn-ing his own livelihood, working at farmlabor until he reached the age of then went to Detroit, ^Michigan, wherehe spent a few months, and then returned toMarion county, Ohio, where he remaineduntil 1855, when he came to Grant town-ship, Vermilion county, Illinois, tin com-pany with Thomas Hoopes, who purchasedabout fourteen hundred acres of land. Fortwenty-three years Mr. Ingle remained withMr. Hoopes, each year earning more andmore largely the confidence of that gentle-man because of his fidelity to his interests,his energy and capability in business and hishonesty in all lifes relations. When theChicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad was inprocess of construction Mr. Ingle aided incarrying the chain and driving the sticks inthe survey for the original plat of Hoope-ton, the town being named in honor of hisfriend and benefactor, Mr. Hoopes, most ofit being laid out on land belonging to M ,MI\iULI_
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