{"id":7910,"date":"2004-06-21T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-21T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/?p=7910"},"modified":"2016-12-08T10:52:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T15:52:08","slug":"john-james-ingalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/archives\/7910","title":{"rendered":"John James Ingalls"},"content":{"rendered":"

United States senator elected in 1873.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Up was he stuck, and in the very upness of his stuckitude he fell.<\/em><\/p>\n

     
\nI<\/span>t seems like every time there\u2019s a discussion of why the Charles Ingalls family went to (Kansas) Indian Territory in the late 1860s, someone mentions that Charles Ingalls must have heard from his cousin, Senator John J. Ingalls (1833-1900), that Osage Indian land was going to soon be available for settlement. In Little House on the Prairie<\/em> (Chapter 4, \u201cPrairie Day\u201d) Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote: Pa had word from a man in Washington that the Indian Territory would be open to settlement soon. It might already be open to settlement. They could not know, because Washington was so far away<\/em>. In the existing manuscripts, Pa calls them \u201cdurned politicians in Washington\u201d and \u201cblasted politicians in Washington,\u201d which you\u2019ll note doesn\u2019t refer to one man at all. <\/p>\n

Nothing about John J. Ingalls or far-off politicians is in any of the four Pioneer Girl <\/em>manuscripts. It’s not in the Laura Ingalls Wilder \/ Rose Wilder Lane letters, at least through the Plum Creek ones. If you want to read a lot about him, just google the Sturgis Treaty and the plight of the Osages in Kansas and their removal. <\/p>\n

Hours will go by in a hurry.<\/p>\n

One thing\u2019s obvious, though. If Charles Ingalls had word from \u201cfar off Washington\u201d about the Osage land, it didn\u2019t come from John J. Ingalls, who wasn\u2019t elected to the United States Senate until 1873. He had earlier been a Kansas state senator, but he certainly wasn\u2019t living in Washington at the time the Ingallses were thinking about leaving Wisconsin for parts unknown. He was busy being quite wealthy and practicing law in Atchison.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to imagine that Charles Ingalls and John J. Ingalls even knew of each other. They weren\u2019t exactly \u201ccousins,\u201d but fifth cousins once removed. Their common ancestor was seven generations back in Charles\u2019 lineage and six in John\u2019s.
\nThe Kansas state motto, “Per Aspera Ad Astra,” was coined by John J. Ingalls. It means \u201cto the stars with difficulty.\u201d The 1904 De Smet graduating class selected that saying as their class motto. Click HERE <\/a>to see the 1905 statue of Ingalls at National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol and to read a biography of John James Ingalls. The photo above was taken in 1873.<\/p>\n

     
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\nJohn James Ingalls<\/strong>
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Senator from Kansas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[638],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7910"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10523,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910\/revisions\/10523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}