Ingraham, Edward

Edward Ingraham was born 20 December 1887, and raised in Bristol, CT . He was the great-grandson of Elias Ingraham, an entrepreneur in early American clock- making and the founder of the E. Ingraham Company, a manufacturer of clocks and non-jeweled watches. After graduating from Yale in 1910, he began his long association with the E. Ingraham Company . From 1927 - 1954, he served as president of the company.

In 1918, Mr. Ingraham married Alice Patti Pease, a French teacher in the Bristol High School. They had five children, four daughters (Alice, Grace, Ellen, and Faith), and a son, William Shurtleff Ingraham . After Mrs. Ingraham's death, Mr. Ingraham married Ethel Leishman Beach, a trust officer at the Bristol Bank and Trust Company on January 16, 1952. Ethel Ingraham was born January 3, 1895 in Bristol, the daughter of John and Agnes Turnbull Leishman .

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