Howard Raymond Ingraham was born in 1891 in the Bluff Point area on Keuka Lake, in Yates County, western New York state, to Charles Ingraham and Myrtle Crofoot Ingraham. He had a younger brother, Forrest. Harold usually went by his middle name, Ray, and worked as a street car conductor, a mechanic, and a telephone installer in his native Penn Yan as a young man. He married Ruth M. Pepper in Rochester, Monroe County, New York on November 16, 1910, and they later worked a huge farm with a big white farmhouse, concord grape vineyards, and just about every type of animal, fruit and vegetable imaginable. They raised two sons, Raymond and Warren, and four daughters, Wilma, Ruth, Marguerite, and Mary in that house, His son Warren died at age seven. The farmhouse had a wood fire kitchen stove. There was an outhouse, a large barn, chicken coops, and a rabbit warren. Water for the kitchen was brought up by the pail from a pump down the hill. There was a cow, a horse to pull the plow, rabbits, chickens, pigs, apple, cherry and pear trees, strawberries, red and black raspberries, and altogether it was a magical place. The farm is gone now, and the property is part of Keuka Lake State Park. At one time, he and his wife lived in a trailer park across from Red Jacket Park, and for a time he was in charge of a large wine warehouse in downtown Penn Yan. He and his wife Ruth would spend winters in Florida to escape the harsh weather, beginning in the 1920s, and they eventually retired to a cottage in Longwood, just north of Orlando, Florida. He passed away in 1968, and was survived by his wife Ruth Ingraham, son Raymond L. Ingraham, daughters Mrs. Wilma McMaster, Mrs. Ruth Vonderlin, Mrs. Marguerite Umstead and Mrs. Mary Staples, plus many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his brother Forrest, who had been an aviator in the AEF during World War I.

Parents:
Charles Ingraham
Myrtie Crofoot