Frances Adelaide (Leverich) Ingraham (1849?-1934) served as a president-general of the Daughters of the Revolution and belonged to several lineage societies. She was the daughter of Richard Berrien Leverich and Margaret Maria (Schoonmaker) Leverich of Brooklyn Heights, New York. In 1875 she married businessman D. Phoenix Ingraham. Their daughter, Marguerite Leverich Ingraham married Lt. Colonel Romulus Foster Walton in 1899. There were two children from this marriage: R. Foster Walton (donor of the collection), and Kenneth Ingraham Walton. Their son, Sidney Phoenix Ingraham, married Frances Virginia Walton in 1909. There were three children from this marriage: Frances Adelaide Ingraham, Jessie V. Ingraham, and Katherine M. Ingraham.
Ingraham was the great-great granddaughter of Theodore Polhemus of Kings County, a member of the first Provincial Congress, 1775; the great-great granddaughter of Peter Vandervoort, ensign of Kings County Troop of Horse, 1776, and the great-granddaughter of Rev. Martinus Schoonmaker, pastor of the Dutch Reformed Churches of Harlem and Gravesend from 1765 to 1784. Her ancestors also include the Berrien and Leverich families of Newtown, L.I.
From the guide to the Frances Adelaide Ingraham papers, 1812-1934, 1899-1932, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.)
