Charles Henry Ingersoll

Charles Henry Ingersoll was an American businessman known for co-founding the Ingersoll Watch Company.

Biography
Ingersoll was born on October 29, 1865, in Delta, Michigan, to Orville Boudinot Ingersoll and Mary Elizabeth Beers. His brother was Robert Hawley Ingersoll (1859-1928). He married Eleanor Ramsey Bond (1869-1928).

He co-founded the Ingersoll Watch Company in 1892. The company went bankrupt in 1921.

He switched to manufacturing fountain pens. In 1926 he converted his home in Montclair, New Jersey, into a hotel.

He died on September 21, 1948, in West Orange, New Jersey. He was buried in Mount Hebron Cemetery in Upper Montclair, New Jersey.