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Her time in Iowa was spent in helping her family to run a hotel which her father had been hired to manage. Laura was around seven years old at the time, but by the time she was ten, the family had moved once again, this time to Burr Oak, Iowa. After a short, initial stay in Lake City, Minnesota, the family moved to Walnut Grove, where Charles finally succeeded in getting the land he wanted to start a farm and build his family a home. Over the next few years Laura lived with her family in Pepin, Wisconsin until Charles moved the family once again, this time to Minnesota, in order to stake a land claim for a homestead of his own. However, soon after her birth, Charles realized that he had actually settled his family on land that was part of the Osage Indian Reservation, and he gave up his claim and moved his family back to Wisconsin. Laura’s younger sister Caroline was born here in 1870.

government had signed a treaty giving them settler’s rights. They accomplished the long journey by wagon over a period of several weeks, and Charles settled his family on a small farmstead on land he claimed as a white settler, erroneously believing that the U.S. Soon after Laura was born, Charles decided to leave Wisconsin and took his family to Kansas, to live in what was then considered to be Indian Territory.

An outgoing and affable man with a love of adventure and what Laura described as a restless spirit, Charles was never content to stay in one place for long, and moved his young family from state to state with almost bewildering rapidity.

He later moved to Wisconsin where he met and married a demure, educated young woman named Caroline Lake Quiner. Charles Ingalls himself was born in New York but when he was just a young boy, his family moved to Elgin, Illinois where Charles grew up. A Life Spent WanderingĪs a young girl, Laura Ingalls travelled widely with her family across the American Midwest, as her father chased his fortune across the country.

Sadly, the Ingalls’ only son, Charles, passed away when he was just an infant. Over the next several years, Caroline and Charles had three more children, Caroline Celestia, born in 1870, Charles Frederick, born five years later in 1875, and Grace Pearl, born in 1877. At the time of her birth, her older sister, Mary Amelia, was two years old. Laura Ingalls Wilder was born on Februnear the small settlement of Pepin, Wisconsin, the second child to Charles Phillip Ingalls and his wife, Caroline Lake Ingalls. Laura's Little House (With: Doris Ettlinger) My First Little House Collections of Winter Tales

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