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Birth and ancestry. Caroline and Charles Ingalls. Laura Elizabeth Ingalls was born to Charles Phillip and Caroline Lake (née Quiner) Ingalls on February 7, 1867. At the time of her birth, the family lived seven miles north of the village of Pepin, Wisconsin, in the Big Woods region of Wisconsin.
Uthoff is a nationally-known Laura Ingalls Wilder authority and has presented at five of the Wilder homesites, many conferences and numerous libraries, museums, and events around the Midwest.
The Ingalls family moved several times during Laura's childhood following Charles Ingalls's search for land to farm. They lived in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota, and Missouri. Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote a total of nine books in the Little House series.
The Ingalls family moves west to unsettled country in Dakota Territory (described in Wilder’s book, "By the Shores of Silver Lake"). 1879 PHOTO: The surveyors' house the Ingalls family...
The Ingalls Family. This is Laura Ingalls Wilder’s father, better known as “Pa” in the Little House Books. This is Laura Ingalls Wilder’s mother, better known as “Ma” in the Little House Books. This is Laura’s older sister, whom became blind.
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Homes offers tours of two original homes of the Ingalls family and an original school that Laura and Carrie attended.
Laura Ingalls grew up in a family that moved frequently from one part of the American frontier to another. Her father took the family by covered wagon to Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Indian Territory, and Dakota Territory. At age 15 she began teaching in rural schools.
She had an older sister named Mary; two younger sisters, Carrie and Grace; and a younger brother named Charles, who died at nine months old. Wilder described her early years as "full of sunshine...
The author of these stories, Laura Ingalls Wilder, based the bestselling “Little House” series on her childhood and the simple joys and upheavals of the pioneer life alongside her family: Pa,...
Laura came of age in Dakota Territory. She received her teaching certificate, taught schools near De Smet, and was courted by a young homesteader, Almanzo Wilder. They married on August 25, 1885, when Laura was eighteen. Their daughter Rose was born on December 5, 1886.