An outgoing and affable man with a love of adventure and what Laura described as a restless spirit, Charles was never content to stay in one place for long, and moved his young family from state to state with almost bewildering rapidity. He later moved to Wisconsin where he met and married a demure, educated young woman named Caroline Lake Quiner. Charles Ingalls himself was born in New York but when he was just a young boy, his family moved to Elgin, Illinois where Charles grew up. A Life Spent WanderingĪs a young girl, Laura Ingalls travelled widely with her family across the American Midwest, as her father chased his fortune across the country. Sadly, the Ingalls’ only son, Charles, passed away when he was just an infant. Over the next several years, Caroline and Charles had three more children, Caroline Celestia, born in 1870, Charles Frederick, born five years later in 1875, and Grace Pearl, born in 1877. At the time of her birth, her older sister, Mary Amelia, was two years old. Laura Ingalls Wilder was born on Februnear the small settlement of Pepin, Wisconsin, the second child to Charles Phillip Ingalls and his wife, Caroline Lake Ingalls. Laura's Little House (With: Doris Ettlinger) My First Little House Collections of Winter Tales
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