Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-02
COMMANDER INGRAHAM.

ham, whose late gallant conduct in command OF
the st. Louis, in the harbor of Smyrna, has CIV
en- him world wide reputation.
Commander Duncan N. Ingraham is the son
of the late Nathaniel Ingraham, Esq, OF Charles
ton, s. c., and belonged to family emlnently
naval in its character. All of them, with one
exception, were officers in the Navy. His father
being the intimate friend Of Captain Paul Jones,
volunteered under his command, when he left
France in the Bon Homme Richard, in ITS, and
fought with him in the battle with the British
frgate Scraps, one of the most desperate ac-
tons in the annals of naval warfare Ills uncle,
Captain Joseph lngraham, U. D. N, was lost in
the u. s. ship Pickering, which went down at
sea, and was never heard OF, ut the beginning OF
this, or the close of the last century. His cous-
in, William Ingraham, was killed at the age OF
twenty, when a lieutenant in the United States
Navy.
The sole exception in the family was his I'M
Gle Duncan Ingraham, Esq, from whom he re-
ceived his name. He was one of the most ac-
comp!shed gentlemen of his day, and, though
intimate with the leading political men OF our
country, yet, from the taste and early associa-
tons, he was a loyalist in his views. AT the
opening of the Revolution in l774, he went to
Europe, and remained there until its close. John
frequently speaks of him in his Diary lately pub
lished, as his associate in Paris. He returned,
however, to this country, in 1884, and gave in
his adherence to the government and permitted
his son to enter the Navy-the Lieutenant VIM.
Ingraham, whom we have mentioned as being
killed in the service.
Captain Ingraham received his midshipman's
warrant at the age of nine years, during the last
war with Great Britain, Commodore Smith, Of
s. Carolina, the intimate friend of his father, be-
ing about to sail in the frgate Congress, request
ed Mr. Ingraham to allow him to take his son
with him. awe shall probably have an en-
gagement," said he, sand it will do him good"
He accordingly went to sea at once, at that ten
der age, and remained in active service for two
years, until the close of the war. He then re-
turned home at the age of eleven, and resumed
his education at school. Since then he has
most of his time, been employed in active duty.
He commanded the ill-fated SOmerS, in blockade
duty, at Vera Cruz, and other parts of the Gulf,
during the whole of the Mexican war, and being
Frustrated by sickness was sent home but a
short time before she was lost. For two years
previous to his sailing for the Mediterranean, in
the ST. Louis, he was attached to the Navy-yard
at Philadelphia, the society of which city will
long remember him and his accomplished fami-
ly.
Captain Ingraham married Harriet Rutege
Laurens of South Carolina, granddaughter, on
the paternal side of Henry Laurens, the Presi-
dent of the first Continental Congress and who
afterwards was captured by British frigate,
while on his way to France as American Com
missioner, and confined for long time in the
Tower of London. On the maternal side she is
the granddaughter of Edward Rutege, one of
the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
His eldest son Henry Laurens Ingraham, is now
a midshipman at the Naval Academy at Annap-
oils.
1t is curious circumstance, that by inter. mar
riage with the American family, the Ingraham
blood flows in the veins of some of the most
distinguished officers in the British Navy
Among these was the late Captain Marryatt, &.
b., (the author,) and Sir Edward Belcher, X. c.
B., who lately commanded the Exploring Expe-
dition round the world, and who now commands
the Attic Expedition, lately sent out by the
British Admiralty, in search of Sir John Frank
lin. The grandmother Of both these officers was
an Ingraham, the near relative of Commander
Ingraham. N. Y. Times.
THE JAPAN EXPEDITIONS Tayor,who
has become connected with the Japan expedition
gives an account of visit made to the Loo
Choo Island, which is tributary to the Japanese
Prince of Satsuma. Probably not more than a
dozen vessels had ever been there before, and
the arrival Of two great steamers, with the Sara
toga and Supply, created, as may be supposed,
an immense sensation. Four of the expedition
traversed ona. half IF fhe island attended hv