Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . leg home, packedit in a box, and with a bottle, in which was an explanatory note,Vol. II—(21). 322 PIONEERS OF POLK COUNTY, IOWA buried them in the lot east of his shop. When the cellar was dugfor the brick building a few years ago, the diggers unearthed thebox and bottle, read the explantory note, turned the whole over toGalbraith, who took jwssession of the leg bones, which were per-fectly preserved, and he has them yet, a gentle reminder of anIowa blizzard. Politically, he is a Republican. He cast his first vote for Pres-ident
Pioneers of Polk County, Iowa, and reminiscences of early days . leg home, packedit in a box, and with a bottle, in which was an explanatory note,Vol. II—(21). 322 PIONEERS OF POLK COUNTY, IOWA buried them in the lot east of his shop. When the cellar was dugfor the brick building a few years ago, the diggers unearthed thebox and bottle, read the explantory note, turned the whole over toGalbraith, who took jwssession of the leg bones, which were per-fectly preserved, and he has them yet, a gentle reminder of anIowa blizzard. Politically, he is a Republican. He cast his first vote for Pres-ident for John C. Fremont, and has not changed his politics. Hehas never taken any part in politics as a politician; is content tobe classed with the common people. When he laid down his ham-mer in 1897, he retired from active business. Socially, he is companionable; inclined to reticence; is of posi-tive temperament and fixedness of purpose; is not a member ofany club or fraternal society. Religiously, he aifiliates with the Baptist Church. Mav Nineteenth, E. J. INGERSOLL E. J. INGERSOLL OF the many old settlers of Polk Covmty who impressed them-selves upon the community, few were more conspicuousthan Ebenezer Jared Ingersoll. Born in Pulaski, Oswego County, New York, March Twenty-eighth, 1828, of English ancestry, which embraced the names ofmen eminent as ministers, lawyers, and statesmen. He lived withhis parents until twenty-one years old, and acquired a thoroughacademic education. After reading law in the office of JudgeHuntington, of Pulaski, he entered the United States Law Schoolat Balston Springs, and was graduated in 1852, with the degreeof Bachelor of Law, and was admitted to practice in the state andfederal courts. He opened an office in Adams, Greene County,i^ew York, where he secured a large and profitable practice. In the Fall of 1858, he joined the tide of emigration westwardand came to Des Moines, where he was admitted to the Bar and atonce took high rank w
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