The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-03-06
Former Prominent Keno
shan Died Sunday Fol-
lowing Stroke.
ILL FOR MANY YEARS
Was One of the Victims of the
Ifoquois Fire in Which His
Five Children Were Killed.

Henry S. Van Ingen, aged rs years,
long one Of the best known residents
of Kenosha, died at his home in
Workers. New York, on Sunday night
following a stroke of paralysis. Mr..
van Ingen had been an invalid for
many years and had been confined to
his room for many months. The end
was not unexpected. Mr.. Van Ingen
and their one son, Schuyler Van
Ingen, were at his bedside when the
final summons came.
- No announcement has been made as
Ito the time or place of the funeral,
but it is believed that the last rites
will take place at the home IN
-Yonkers and that the remains will be
laid at rest there.
Had Prominent Place Here.
For more than a decade Mr.. Van
Ingen took most prominent part in
the life of Kenosha. He was native
of New York and brother of the
late L. Van Ingen, who was one of
the wealthiest Of the New York inn
porters and who was for many years
the owner of large amount of land
in Kenosha county. Mr.. Van Ingen
himself was a large investor in Keno
sha county lands and his large hold
ings along the lake shore just south
1of Kenosha were disposed of only a
few months ago. He was also the
owner of large amount of dock prop
erty in the Kenosha harbor and this
was recently transferred on land
contract to Hill Steamboat company.
Mr.. Van Ingen was born in New
Y ork and was educated in that state.
He was a man of high educational
attachments and following his gradu-
alton from college he became con-
nected with some of the great eastern
coal companies.
Came Here In 1890.
>, In 1890 he was named as general
manager for the Pennsylvania Coal
company at Chicago and he came to
Kenosha to make his home. The home
was on Park avenue and it afterward
became the home of Alfred Terrell
and is now the home of the Greenleaf
Inn. Mr.. Van Ingen took a great in
terest in the development of Kenosha.
He was the first president of the
Kenosha Country club, one of the first
presidents of the Kenosha chapter of
the Sons of the American Revolution
and he took a very active interest in
many of the organizations for the bet
terment of Kenosha. He was a char
ter member of the old Kenosha Whist
club and with the members of his
family he held commanding place in
the social life of Kenosha during his
satire residence here.
He took an active interest in the
political life of Kenosha and was at
one time a candidate for the Office of
mayor, being defeated by few votes
by the late Frank c. Gully.
Crushed by Loss of Family.
The Van Ingen family, one of the
most Interesting ever in Kenosha, was
one of the victims of the Iroquois fire
In Chicago. In that disaster Mr.. and
Mrs. Van Ingen lost five of their
children and were so terribly burned
that they never entirely recovered
from the injuries and shock. On the
afternoon when the famous Chicago
theatre was destroyed, December 80,
1908, Mr.. and Mrs. Van Ingen and
their FIVE children, Margaret, Grace,
and Betty and Jack and Ned
had gone to have family theatre
party at the Iroquois. When panic
followed the fire Mr. Van Ingen made
. heroic effort to rescue the members
Of his family but they became separat-
I'd and the five children were burned
TO death. Mr.. and Mrs. Van Ingen
were rescued only after they had
been terribly injured and for many
months they were sufferers from these
injuries.
Tie terrible loss of his family
brought the retirement of Mr.. Van
IngcB from business and shortly after
.fhe burial Of his children he left
Kcnasha and established a home on
the Hudson river at Yonkers where he
had lived in retirement since,