 Charles Ingalls was born in Cuba, New York, the second of nine children of Lansford Whiting and Laura Louise (nee Colby) Ingalls.Ingalls' parents appear as "Grandpa" and "Grandma" in the Laura Ingalls Wilder book "Little House in the Big Woods".Ingalls' father was born in Dunham, Missisquoi County, Lower Canada (now Dunham, Quebec, Canada), a descendant of Henry Ingalls (1627–1714) who was born in Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, England and settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.