Inglefield, Indiana

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Inglefield, Indiana

| other_name = Ingle's

| settlement_type = farm, post-office, and railway station

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = United States

| subdivision_type1 = State

| subdivision_name1 = Indiana

| subdivision_type2 = County

| subdivision_name2 = Vanderburgh

| subdivision_type3 = Township

| subdivision_name3 = Scott

| coordinates = {{coord|38|6|29|N|87|33|32|W|region:US-IN_type:city_scale:20000|display=inline,title}}

}}

Inglefield in Scott Township, Vanderburgh County, Indiana; also known as Ingle's and Ingles, and later to be a post-office, a village, and a railway station; began life as the farm of one John Ingle Sr.{{sfn|Elliott|1897|p=399}}{{sfn|von Steinwehr|1873|p=429|loc=Inglefield}}{{sfn|Cowen|1866|p=30|loc=Ingles}}{{sfn|de Colange|1884|p=494|loc=Inglefield}}

Ingle's was the first stop for travellers that was to appear on the road from Evansville to Princeton, back when it wound through woodland, before the state straightened the road.{{sfn|BF|1889|p=579}}

As a railroad stop on the Evansville and Crawfordsville Railroad it was known in the middle of the 19th century as Ingles,{{sfn|Cowen|1866|p=30|loc=Ingles}} later to become Inglefield on the later Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad (E&THR) and Chicago and Iowa Railroad.{{sfn|de Colange|1884|p=494|loc=Inglefield}}{{sfn|BF|1889|p=582}}

The Inglefield post-office was originally named Sandersville, as was a town that Ingle Sr attempted to found.{{sfn|BF|1889|p=583}}{{sfn|Baker|1995|p=176|loc=Inglefield}}

John Ingle, Sr and Jr

Both Ingle Sr and his son John Ingle Jr were born in Somersham in England, the former in 1788 and the latter in 1812.{{sfn|Elliott|1897|p=399}}{{sfn|White|1873|pp=203–204}}

The Ingles came to the United States in 1818, and after short stays in Evansville and Princeton came to the farm in Scott Township.{{sfn|Elliott|1897|p=399}}{{sfn|White|1873|pp=203–204}}

Ingle Sr ran the post-office on his farm for 45 years.{{sfn|Elliott|1897|p=399}}{{sfn|White|1873|p=204}}

He originally named it Sandersville on 1823-11-27 but it changed name to Inglefield on 1869-11-17.{{sfn|Baker|1995|p=176|loc=Inglefield}}

Sandersville was also the town that Ingle Sr platted on 1819-04-26.{{sfn|BF|1889|p=582}}

It comprised {{convert|160|acre|ha}} with a {{convert|266|by|255|ft|m}} public square.{{sfn|BF|1889|p=583}}

Some houses were erected including, in addition to Ingle's post-office, a store and a blacksmith's; but the town was largely abandoned by 1830 with only the post-office remaining.{{sfn|BF|1889|p=582}}

Ingle Sr, William Ingle, and others later contributed {{USD|1800|year=1867}} to the erection in 1867 of a Centenary Methodist Episcopal church nearby ({{coord|38.109|-87.549|format=dms|display=inline|type:landmark_region:US-IN_scale:20000|name=Centenary Methodist Episcopal church}}).{{sfn|BF|1889|p=583}}

William D. Miller, who had been a depot agent and a telegraph operator on the E&THR and a merchant at Inglefield, the only one left by 1889, took up the postmastership of Inglefield in March 1884.{{sfn|BF|1889|p=591}}

After education in Princeton (Indiana) and Philadelphia, Ingle Jr eventually became a lawyer with a practice in Evansville.{{sfn|Elliott|1897|pp=399–401}}{{sfn|White|1873|pp=204–205}}

He was one of the founders of the Evansville and Crawfordsville Railroad; and, having initially being a superintendent, was the president of the company for over 20 years.{{sfn|Elliott|1897|p=401}}{{sfn|White|1873|p=205}}

He also ran the John Ingle & Company coal mining business, incorporated in 1866.{{sfn|Elliott|1897|p=401}}

By the end of the 19th century the business was in the hands of his sons, George and John Ingle, with {{convert|200|acre|ha}} near the local insane asylum and a further {{convert|140|acres|ha}} around Coal Mine Hill at a bend of the Ohio River, where the company had sunk its first shaft.{{sfn|Elliott|1897|pp=401–402}}

It was producing {{convert|50000|LT|Mg}} of coal per year.{{sfn|Elliott|1897|pp=401–402}}

Others

Other people associated with Inglefield include Dr Thomas Runcie, an immigrant from Ireland, who practiced medicine there from 1849 until his death in 1867.{{sfn|BF|1889|p=233}}

Samuel Scott, after whom Scott Township is named, once lived around {{convert|1|mile|km}} south of where Inglefield would be.{{sfn|BF|1889|p=578}}

In the other direction, roughly {{convert|1|mile|km}} north, James Cawson had run the second place to be cleared in the woodland for travellers to rest on the Evansville to Princeton road.{{sfn|BF|1889|p=579}}

It was later to become the Ritchey homestead and the site of the Lockyear blacksmith's, the first smithy in the Township.{{sfn|BF|1889|p=579}}

References

= Bibliography =

{{cite book|title=History of Vanderburgh County, Indiana|publisher=Brant & Fuller|year=1889|oclc=3557957|ref={{harvid|BF|1889}}}} ({{Internet Archive|id=historyofvanderb00madi|name=History of Vanderburgh County, Indiana}} {{HathiTrust Catalog|id=006793315|title=History of Vanderburgh County, Indiana}})
{{cite book|title=Evansville and Its Men of Mark|series=County and regional histories of the "Old Northwest.": Indiana|editor1-first=Edward|editor1-last=White|location=Evansville, Indiana|publisher=Historical Publishing Company|year=1873|chapter=John Ingle Jr|pages=203–206}}
{{cite book|title=A history of Evansville and Vanderburgh County, Indiana|year=1897|author1-last=Elliott|author1-first=Joseph Peter|location=Evansville, Indiana|publisher=Keller Printing Company|oclc=8488951}} ({{HathiTrust Catalog|id=008652944|title=A history of Evansville and Vanderburgh County, Indiana}})
{{cite book|author1-last=von Steinwehr|author1-first=Adolph|author1-link=Adolph von Steinwehr

|title=The Centennial Gazetteer of the United States|date=1873|location=Philadelphia and Chicago|publisher=J. C. McCurdy & Company|lccn=08033626}} ({{Internet Archive|id=centennialgazett00stei|name=The Centennial Gazetteer of the United States}} {{HathiTrust Catalog|id=009593653|title=The Centennial Gazetteer of the United States}})

{{cite book|title=Indiana State Gazetteer and Shippers' Guide for 1866–67|volume=1|author1-first=M. V. B|author1-last=Cowen|location=Lafayette, Indiana|publisher=Rosser, Spring & Cowen|year=1866|oclc=43856353}} ({{HathiTrust Catalog|id=011805880|title=Indiana State Gazetteer and Shippers' Guide for 1866–67}})
{{cite book|title=The National Gazetteer: A geographical dictionary of the United States|author1-first=Leo|author1-last=de Colange|location=London|publisher=Hamilton Adams & Company|year=1884|lccn=03009971|oclc=4740756}} ({{Internet Archive|id=nationalgazettee00cola|name=The National Gazetteer: A geographical dictionary of the United States}})
{{cite book|last=Baker|first=Ronald L.|title=From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History|date=October 1995|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-32866-3}} ({{Internet Archive|id=fromneedmoretopr00bake|name=From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History}})

Inglefield, Indiana

John Ingle, Sr and Jr

Others

References

= Bibliography =

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