Mrs. J. K. Ingalls, Early River Forest Resident, Dead
A resident of River Forest since 1893, Mrs. Florence Allin Ingalls, 82, of 562 Keystone, died at West Suburban hospital March 27. She was born in Iowa City, Ia., and was the widow of the late J. Kibben Ingalls.
Mrs. Ingalls had been a member since 1893 of River Forest Methodist church, a charter member of River Forest Women's club and president of the club from 1895 to 1897.
She was president of the Suburban Women's Athletic club which, on September 21, 1915, was granted the use of the Y "gymnasium and natatorium" by the board of directors of the Oak Park YMCA. After more than 15 years in which this agreement continued, the Suburban Women's Athletic club disbanded, turning over to the Oak Park YMCA the substantial assets which it had accumulated, with the request that the Y thereafter conduct the women's work in its own name.
In speaking of her work, Gordon D. Shorney, president of YMCA board of directors, said: "Mrs. Ingalls was not a person of divided loyalties. If she believed in a cause, she worked at it day and night with great determination and rare devotion. She was the driving spirit in the Suburban Women's Athletic club. Many of the leading women of this community in those years came to be identified with the work under Mrs. Ingalls' leadership. She had put this community and the Young Men's Christian Association of Oak Park very deeply in her debt."
Surviving are a son, Allin K. Ingalls of 1105 Park; two grandchildren, David K. and Mary Lorene; two sisters, Mrs. Grace Allin Newman of Long Beach, Calif., Mrs. Maud Allin Elliott of Los Angeles and a brother, R. Fred Allin of New York City.
The Rev. R. A. W. Bruehl, minister of River Forest Methodist church, officiated at services March 29 at Drechsler chapel and interment was in Forest Home cemetery.
—Oak Leaves (Oak Park, Illinois), 5 Apr 1951, pg. 64
The 1910 census shows Mrs. Ingalls as having had 5 children, with one still alive that year.
A resident of River Forest since 1893, Mrs. Florence Allin Ingalls, 82, of 562 Keystone, died at West Suburban hospital March 27. She was born in Iowa City, Ia., and was the widow of the late J. Kibben Ingalls.
Mrs. Ingalls had been a member since 1893 of River Forest Methodist church, a charter member of River Forest Women's club and president of the club from 1895 to 1897.
She was president of the Suburban Women's Athletic club which, on September 21, 1915, was granted the use of the Y "gymnasium and natatorium" by the board of directors of the Oak Park YMCA. After more than 15 years in which this agreement continued, the Suburban Women's Athletic club disbanded, turning over to the Oak Park YMCA the substantial assets which it had accumulated, with the request that the Y thereafter conduct the women's work in its own name.
In speaking of her work, Gordon D. Shorney, president of YMCA board of directors, said: "Mrs. Ingalls was not a person of divided loyalties. If she believed in a cause, she worked at it day and night with great determination and rare devotion. She was the driving spirit in the Suburban Women's Athletic club. Many of the leading women of this community in those years came to be identified with the work under Mrs. Ingalls' leadership. She had put this community and the Young Men's Christian Association of Oak Park very deeply in her debt."
Surviving are a son, Allin K. Ingalls of 1105 Park; two grandchildren, David K. and Mary Lorene; two sisters, Mrs. Grace Allin Newman of Long Beach, Calif., Mrs. Maud Allin Elliott of Los Angeles and a brother, R. Fred Allin of New York City.
The Rev. R. A. W. Bruehl, minister of River Forest Methodist church, officiated at services March 29 at Drechsler chapel and interment was in Forest Home cemetery.
—Oak Leaves (Oak Park, Illinois), 5 Apr 1951, pg. 64
The 1910 census shows Mrs. Ingalls as having had 5 children, with one still alive that year.
Mrs. J. K. Ingalls, Early River Forest Resident, Dead
A resident of River Forest since 1893, Mrs. Florence Allin Ingalls, 82, of 562 Keystone, died at West Suburban hospital March 27. She was born in Iowa City, Ia., and was the widow of the late J. Kibben Ingalls.
Mrs. Ingalls had been a member since 1893 of River Forest Methodist church, a charter member of River Forest Women's club and president of the club from 1895 to 1897.
She was president of the Suburban Women's Athletic club which, on September 21, 1915, was granted the use of the Y "gymnasium and natatorium" by the board of directors of the Oak Park YMCA. After more than 15 years in which this agreement continued, the Suburban Women's Athletic club disbanded, turning over to the Oak Park YMCA the substantial assets which it had accumulated, with the request that the Y thereafter conduct the women's work in its own name.
In speaking of her work, Gordon D. Shorney, president of YMCA board of directors, said: "Mrs. Ingalls was not a person of divided loyalties. If she believed in a cause, she worked at it day and night with great determination and rare devotion. She was the driving spirit in the Suburban Women's Athletic club. Many of the leading women of this community in those years came to be identified with the work under Mrs. Ingalls' leadership. She had put this community and the Young Men's Christian Association of Oak Park very deeply in her debt."
Surviving are a son, Allin K. Ingalls of 1105 Park; two grandchildren, David K. and Mary Lorene; two sisters, Mrs. Grace Allin Newman of Long Beach, Calif., Mrs. Maud Allin Elliott of Los Angeles and a brother, R. Fred Allin of New York City.
The Rev. R. A. W. Bruehl, minister of River Forest Methodist church, officiated at services March 29 at Drechsler chapel and interment was in Forest Home cemetery.
—Oak Leaves (Oak Park, Illinois), 5 Apr 1951, pg. 64
The 1910 census shows Mrs. Ingalls as having had 5 children, with one still alive that year.
A resident of River Forest since 1893, Mrs. Florence Allin Ingalls, 82, of 562 Keystone, died at West Suburban hospital March 27. She was born in Iowa City, Ia., and was the widow of the late J. Kibben Ingalls.
Mrs. Ingalls had been a member since 1893 of River Forest Methodist church, a charter member of River Forest Women's club and president of the club from 1895 to 1897.
She was president of the Suburban Women's Athletic club which, on September 21, 1915, was granted the use of the Y "gymnasium and natatorium" by the board of directors of the Oak Park YMCA. After more than 15 years in which this agreement continued, the Suburban Women's Athletic club disbanded, turning over to the Oak Park YMCA the substantial assets which it had accumulated, with the request that the Y thereafter conduct the women's work in its own name.
In speaking of her work, Gordon D. Shorney, president of YMCA board of directors, said: "Mrs. Ingalls was not a person of divided loyalties. If she believed in a cause, she worked at it day and night with great determination and rare devotion. She was the driving spirit in the Suburban Women's Athletic club. Many of the leading women of this community in those years came to be identified with the work under Mrs. Ingalls' leadership. She had put this community and the Young Men's Christian Association of Oak Park very deeply in her debt."
Surviving are a son, Allin K. Ingalls of 1105 Park; two grandchildren, David K. and Mary Lorene; two sisters, Mrs. Grace Allin Newman of Long Beach, Calif., Mrs. Maud Allin Elliott of Los Angeles and a brother, R. Fred Allin of New York City.
The Rev. R. A. W. Bruehl, minister of River Forest Methodist church, officiated at services March 29 at Drechsler chapel and interment was in Forest Home cemetery.
—Oak Leaves (Oak Park, Illinois), 5 Apr 1951, pg. 64
The 1910 census shows Mrs. Ingalls as having had 5 children, with one still alive that year.
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