His paternal grandfather three times removed, David Ingram, had immigrated from Leeds, England, in 1780.
[4] He was the owner of Ingram Oil & Refining, a chain of 240 gas stations headquartered in Meraux, Louisiana, just outside New Orleans.
[1][5] Ingram served as the Vice President of the Board of Trust of Vanderbilt University in Nashville from 1952 to 1963.
[6][7] Ingram married Hortense Bigelow, the daughter of the president of the St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Co. (later known as The Travelers Companies).
[4] They resided in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, Hobe Sound, Florida, and Nashville, Tennessee.