Laura Ingalls Wilder: Difference between revisions

 

==Birth and ancestry==

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Laura Elizabeth Ingalls was born to [[Charles Ingalls|Charles Phillip]] and [[Caroline Ingalls|Caroline Lake (née Quiner) Ingalls]] on February 7, 1867. At the time of Ingalls' birth, the family lived seven miles north of the village of [[Pepin, Wisconsin]], in the [[Big Woods]] region of [[Wisconsin]]. Ingalls' home in Pepin became the setting for her first book, ''[[Little House in the Big Woods]] (1932).''<ref name="pepin">{{cite web |title=Laura Ingalls Wilder |url=http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/topics/wilder/index.asp |publisher=Wisconsin Historical Society |website=wisconsinhistory.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070210135806/http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/topics/wilder/index.asp|archive-date=February 10, 2007}}</ref> She was the second of five children, following older sister, [[Mary Ingalls|Mary Amelia]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Benge |first=Janet and Geoff |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hbdPbFVxE7oC |title=Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Storybook Life |page=180 |publisher=YWAM Publishing |year=2005 |isbn=1-932096-32-9 |access-date=June 4, 2020 |archive-date=August 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804064928/https://books.google.com/books?id=hbdPbFVxE7oC |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>[http://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/Pages/What-Really-Caused-Mary-Ingalls-to-Go-Blind.aspx "What Really Caused Mary Ingalls to Go Blind?"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190809034139/http://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/Pages/What-Really-Caused-Mary-Ingalls-to-Go-Blind.aspx |date=August 9, 2019 }}. February 4, 2013. [[American Academy of Pediatrics]]. Press release announcing Allexan, et al.:<br /> • {{cite journal|author1=Allexan, Sarah S. |author2=Byington, Carrie L. |author3=Finkelstein, Jerome I. |author4=Tarini, Beth A. | title = Blindness in Walnut Grove: How Did Mary Ingalls Lose Her Sight? | journal = Pediatrics | volume = 131 |issue=3 |date=March 1, 2013 |pages=404–06 |doi=10.1542/peds.2012-1438|pmid=23382439 |pmc=4074664 }}</ref><ref name=NYT>{{cite news |first= KJ |last= Dell'Antonia |title= Scarlet Fever Probably Didn't Blind Mary Ingalls |url= http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/04/scarlet-fever-probably-didnt-blind-mary-ingalls/ |newspaper= The New York Times |date= February 4, 2013 |access-date= February 4, 2013 |archive-date= October 1, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181001045200/https://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/04/scarlet-fever-probably-didnt-blind-mary-ingalls/ |url-status= live }}</ref><ref name=USNews>{{cite news |first= Gordon |last= Serena |title= Mistaken Infection 'On The Prairie'? |url= http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2013/02/04/mistaken-infection-on-the-prairie |publisher= HealthDay; [[U.S. News & World Report]] (usnews.com/health-news) |date= February 4, 2013 |access-date= February 4, 2013 |archive-date= June 22, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180622010350/https://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2013/02/04/mistaken-infection-on-the-prairie |url-status= live }}</ref> Three more children would follow, [[Carrie Ingalls|Caroline Celestia (Carrie)]], [[Caroline Ingalls#Freddie Ingalls|Charles Frederick]], who died in infancy, and [[Grace Ingalls|Grace Pearl]]. Ingalls Wilder's birth site is commemorated by a replica [[log cabin]] at the [[Little House Wayside]] in Pepin.<ref name="VisitPepinCounty">{{cite web |url=http://visitpepincounty.com/Laura.pdf |title=Laura.pdf |publisher=Little House Wayside; Pepin, Wisconsin (visitpepincounty.com) |access-date=February 8, 2015 |archive-date=September 29, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929232253/http://visitpepincounty.com/Laura.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>