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Charles Phillip Ingalls was the father of Laura Ingalls Wilder, known for her Little House on the Prairie
series of books. He was born January 10, 1836, in Cuba, New York, the second of nine children of Lansford and Laura (Colby) Ingalls.

On February 1, 1860 he married Caroline Quiner and they soon had five children, Mary, Laura, Carrie, Freddy and Grace. Freddy died as an infant.

In the 1840s, the family of young Charles Ingalls moved from New York to the tallgrass prairie of Campton Township, just west of Elgin, Illinois. Ingalls is better known as "Pa" from the Little House on the Prairie
books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

He loved traveling and didn't like living among big crowds of people, so together with his family, he traveled a lot and often changed homes. They settled down for good in De Smet, South Dakota where he died on June 8, 1902, at the age of 66.

Little House on the Prairie

Ingalls was portrayed on the television adaptation of Little House on the Prairie by actor Michael Landon. On Beyond the Prairie movies by Richard Thomas, while on the newest miniseries by Cameron Bancroft.

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