Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder was an American author, writer, teacher, and a farmer. She is well known for her historical fiction book series “Little House” based mainly on her childhood. Laura Ingalls was born near Pepin, Wisconsin on February 7, 1867. She died in Mansfield, Missouri on Rocky Ridge Farm, on February 10, 1957 at the age of ninety. Laura Ingalls Wilder would become a well known author of her time period around the world. (Laura)
Laura Ingalls Wilder was a second child of five; four daughters and one son of Charles and Caroline Ingalls. During her childhood, the Ingalls family moved from place to place frequently. Two years after her birth in 1869, her family moved to Kansas. Laura Ingalls had an older sister named Mary, two younger sisters: Carrie and Grace, and Charles, her younger brother died at nine months. In 1870, the Ingalls family moved back to Walnut Grove. Mary got a serious illness and she lost her eyesight because of it. (Author)
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In 1882, when she was fifteen, she received her teaching certificate. Laura Ingalls taught for three years at a school in De Smet, South Dakota. Almanzo Wilder began courting Laura Ingalls, who would become her husband. On August 25, 1885 they got married. The first years of their marriage were difficult. Laura wrote about the hardships in The First Four Years. Some of the hardships were the death of their baby son, poor crops, and a fire in their house. (Laura