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JOHN INGRAM, watchmaker, was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1854, a son of Martin and Nancy (Daugherty) Ingram, who removed to Westmoreland county, Pa., in 1849. Here Martin Ingram died in 1854. He left two surviving children: Sarah A., now Mrs. Davis, of Tarentum; and John, the subject of this sketch, who was but a child at his father’s death and at an early age assumed a responsible place in the household. Besides becoming a skillful watchmaker, for which he early evinced a peculiar aptitude, as well as considerable inventive faculty, in youth he also occasionally taught school, and with success, too, as evidenced by a No. 1 county teacher’s certificate; also, in 1866, he graduated from Duff’s Mercantile College, at Pittsburgh. In 1873, he, with his mother and sister, removed to Tarentum, where he established himself as watchmaker and jeweler, which business he conducted very successfully until the conflagration occurred in Tarentum in 1885, since when he has erected a block of more pretentious size and appearance, on the site of his building destroyed at that time, but owing to impaired health he has not actively resumed business since. Mr. Ingram, in 1875, married E. J., a daughter of Robert Lardin, of Tarentum, and two children have been born to them, of whom Alice B. alone survives.