The Ingersoll Cheese and Agriculture Museum will be honouring Thomas Ingersoll this Sunday with a party from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
INGERSOLL - The Ingersoll Cheese and Agriculture Museum is having a Birthday Party for the Founder of Ingersoll.
Thomas Ingersoll would have turned 270 years old on Sunday. Curator Scott Gillies says Thomas Ingersoll led a fascinating life.
"A lot of people may not realize that Thomas was married three different times, his first wife bore him 4 daughters and his oldest was called Laura. Most Canadians recognize her is Laura Secord but they don't realize she is actually Laura Ingersoll Secord."
The party is happening from 1-4 p.m and will feature indoor and outdoor games for the kids, story time with Miss Gail and cake. Gillies says they also have a special presentation happening on Sunday.
"Professor George Emery from the University of Western Ontario will be speaking. He is a local historian, originally from Ingersoll and specialized in Ontario history. He has written a number of books about the growth of Ingersoll, including his most recent on the entire Ingersoll family. So he will be sharing some of those insights he learned about Thomas and Thomas's ancestors and descendents."
The founder and namesake of our community was born on March 24, 1749 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He came to Upper Canada and was given a land grant of 66,000 acres by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe along with the task of settling a group of some 40 families in a raw forest tract near the Thames River. This he did in 1793 by establishing Oxford-on-the-Thames, the community that would later be renamed in his honour.
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