| Orrin Henry Ingram Sr. | |
| Birth Date: | 26 June 1904 |
| Birth Place: | Eau Claire, Wisconsin, US |
| Death Place: | Nashville, Tennessee, US |
| Occupation: | Businessman |
| Spouse: | Hortense Bigelow |
| Children: | E. Bronson Ingram II Frederic B. Ingram Alice Hooker |
| Parents: | Erskine B. Ingram Harriet Coggshall |
| Relatives: | Orrin Henry Ingram (paternal grandfather) Julius Ingram (paternal great-uncle) Martha Rivers Ingram (daughter-in-law) Ingrid Goude (daughter-in-law) |
Orrin Henry Ingram Sr. (June 26, 1904 – April 25, 1963) was an American heir and businessman.
Orrin Henry Ingram Sr. was born on June 26, 1904, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. His father, Erskine B. Ingram, was a lumber heir.[1] His mother was Harriet Coggshall. His parents were members of the Congregational Church.
His paternal grandfather three times removed, David Ingram, had immigrated from Leeds, England, in 1780.[2] His paternal grandfather, Orrin Henry Ingram, was a lumber baron in Wisconsin.[1] [2] [3] His great-uncle, Julius Ingram, was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
In 1928, Ingram ran a textile firm in Tennessee owned by his wife's family.[1] [4] He relocated it to Nashville, Tennessee.[1] By 1937, at the time of the textile strike, he sold half his investment and acquired Wood River Oil and Refining, an oil company based in St. Louis, Missouri.[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] In 1961, he sold the company to Murphy Oil.[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.[3] [4] They had two sons, E. Bronson Ingram II and Frederic B. Ingram, and a daughter, Alice, who married Henry William Hooker.[8]
He died of a heart attack on April 25, 1963, in Nashville, Tennessee.[3] [9] [10] He was buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville.
The Hank Ingram House on the campus of Vanderbilt University was named in his honor in 2006.[6] [11]