Ingalls was born in Middletown. Mass.. December 29. 1833. and came to Kansas in 1858. three years before Kansas became a State. allured by a real estate agents " chromatic triumph of lithographed mendacity." Ingalls had this lithograph framed. and it hung upon the walls of his home long after Kansas had begun to realize a greater prosperity than that with which "the Pilgrim Fathers of Kansas." in the epoch of Ingallss arrival. beguiled "the dazzled vision of the emigrating public." He lived through the period of blanket Indians. "Jayhawkers." grasshoppers. and predatory politicians. He lived in Kansas and Kansas lived in him "till death had made him marble." and somehow lie absorbed the spirit of Kansas. and by his genius transmuted. glorified it. and gave it back to Kansas in pictures of herself that urged her people on to nobler enterprise. Ingalls was not only a Senator of the United States from the State of Kansas. but he was Kansas minstrel in prose. who told at every Kansas fireside the epic of her life and stirred the Kansan heart to pride and high endeavor.
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