The Ingalls Inquirer e-newsletter
Vol. 1-10
March, 1984-November, 1993
Published by Arlene Ingalls Schrader
ISSN 1933-7329

Arlington, N.J. 3-23-1913

Dear Folkses,

It is getting along in the afternoon and I have been busy ever since I got up a little past seven o'clock. I did not get to bed until after midnight so I did not have a very long time in bed even if I did not rise early. It was quite cool last night and has been a rather disagreeable day in spite of the fact that there has been bright sunshine part of the time. There is a rawness in the air that is far from enjoyable. We had some lovely days last week and some that were abominable. The rain fairly poured down a couple of days.

The strike is still on but there is so little to it that it is hardly noticeable now. The scrap a week ago last Wednesday took the cockiness out of the strikers and they are very little in evidence. All departments are working well and things are steadily improving at the factory. What little sympathy there was for the strikers among outsiders who were inclined to be fair has been dissipated by their actions and it is generally felt that they got what they needed and nearly everybody seems glad of it. One of the ring-leaders in trouble since the strike began is still laid up with a broken nose and dislocated jaw.

Will is in Connecticut over Sunday, expects to be back to-morrow noon, M. and I are going to the city this evening to attend a concert which should be very nice. It is given by the Arion Society orchestra of which Lyle Ingalls is a member.

Now as to those Ingallses. The family consists of Mr. Ingalls, a man past 70 who makes his home with one of the sons in Stamford, Ct.; Mrs. Ingalls, several years his junior but some where in the sixties; Hawley Ingalls, his wife and one small son, living at Stamford, Ct.; Seymour, his wife and two children, a boy and a girl, living on Harper Place here in Arlington; Bertha Ingalls LaMar, her husband and two children, a boy and a girl, living on Hickory St., here in Arlington; Lyle Ingalls, unmarried, who lives with his mother and the dogs on Forest St. about five blocks from us.

Just why the father and mother do not live together I never asked and I have never been told beyond the fact that Mr. I. does not like to go away from the place that he has been accustomed to. There seems to be the best of feeling between them and the rest of the family. Hawley is the oldest child, well past forty, a dealer in real estate and with his partner owner of one of the best hotels in Stamford. He is very well-to-do. Mrs. LaMar comes next. I have met her only once but she is very nice and Marguerite says the children are nice and unusually polite for this place. Her husband is a singer in vaudeville and had been with Geo. M. Cohan quite a good deal. Seymour is the odd sheep. He has been twice married. His first wife was n.g. and the present one is not in favor with the rest of the family. Brain fever when he was a child is assigned as

the cause of his peculiarities. Lyle is a little past thirty and seems a mighty fine chap from all that I can gather. He is a worker and has held some pretty good places tho with no large salaries attached. At present he is a salesman for Beechnut gum and is doing fairly well. He is the musician of the family and is a pretty good one. He plays the flute nicely and plays the piano some by ear. He used to sing in an Episcopal choir and for a time was one of the soloists. He still has a good bass voice but does not know how to get the best of it into his singing.

In the upper part of the head and face they all resemble the other Ingallses that I have met. They are relatively short tho Mrs. LaMar is a fairly tall woman. Mrs. Ingalls also resembles the Ingallses herself to a considerable extent. Seymour is a carriage maker by trade but for some time past was employed by the Arlington Co. as a box maker. When the strike was called he went out with the rest and is still out. His wife has obtained a place and is at work there now. He is doing nothing so far as I know.

As I never ask questions about matters that are none of my business I know much less in regard to their family affairs than I might were I inquisitive. We find Mrs. Ingalls and Lyle very pleasant and they seem to enjoy our acquaintance. I am sorry that we did not get to know them sooner. I also like what I have seen of Hawley and Mrs. LaMar.

They have the same traditions to there having been several brothers who came to this country in the early days and settled in Mass. from whom the present Ingallses are descended. They have had some communication with the man who compiled the Ingalls genealogy but never purchased one of the books.

It is getting time for me to get ready so I must not take any more time for this. Easter Greetings, lots of love and good by.

/s/ Will

The painted card will have to wait until next time. I have it part done but not completed.

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INGALLS IN AMERICA 1629-1987

 Anyone care to estimate our census today?

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MICHIGAN CENTENNIAL RECOGNITION

Ingalls - Sawyer Attorneys 1863- 1979

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Judge E. S. Ingalls 1862- 1879 Author. First lawyer in Menominee County

Alvah L. Sawyer 1878-1925 Member Michigan and Supreme Court Bar Associations. Author

Meredith P. Sawyer 1911-1949 Member Michigan and Supreme Court Bar Associations. Municipal Judge. Circuit Court Commissioner

Richard A. Sawyer 1949 – present (1982) Member Michigan Bar Assoc. Circuit Court Commissioner. U. S. Coast Guard

Judge Eleazer Stillman b 10 Jun 1920 son of ELEAZER FRENCH INGALLS B912-6 and Amy Pearson m Martha Maria Pearson 1844. Note pages 199-200 for a more complete genealogy. (Burleigh's book)

Thank you, Sally Sawyer Michaelsen, VA for contributing the folder containing these pictures and information. She is 10th generation of Ingalls in America.

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Setting the Stage - 1862

The curtain opens and the Ingalls-Sawyer families step onto the stage. This prestigious line has followed the law for over a century, and their names may be found among the chronicles of the nation.

In 1859, E. S. Ingalls, a young attorney from Nashua, New Hampshire and Antioch, Illinois, disembarked from the Fanny Fisk at the Menominee River Harbor seeking opportunity. Weary of city life, he camped on the Wisconsin side of the river with pony and pack and took his time to look around.

1862: Enter E. S. Ingalls on the Michigan side of the river. A few settlers in Menominee implored the young lawyer to come to Michigan. The country, with its wealth of lumber and minerals, beckoned. He brought his wife and family to put down a stake in Menominee and remained to become a legend. The family line continued to the fourth generation of attorneys, represented today by Richard Sawyer.

In 1863 there were 496 persons living in Menominee County. They welcomed the youthful and promising lawyer who assumed responsibilities almost immediately as deputy clerk. He was sent to Lansing to obtain a seal for the county. The county seat was designated to be located in Menominee, but not without a good fight.

Internal affairs became his concern: he pushed for bridges, roads and a railroad. He was owner, operator of the Menominee Herald, founded in 1863. The first issues of the Herald were printed by an old Washington hand press and his newspaper has endured to the present time.

Alvah Littlefield Sawyer married Josephine, daughter of E. S. Ingalls. He began practicing with Judge Ingalls in 1878 and continued until his death in 1925. Alvah was also a writer, authoring the three volumes of The Northern Peninsula, a comprehensive history of the region. His wife, Josephine, was a prolific writer and collaborated with her husband on the history. An on-the-scene account of the Peshtigo fire was also among her many papers.

In addition to his writing, Alvah was a member of the Michigan and Supreme Court bar associations. He also looked to civic affairs, serving as president of Spies Library board and the Menominee School District board of education. Ile loved the outdoors, was an amateur geologist and could identify all wildflowers at a glance.

Meredith Phillips Sawyer associated himself professionally with his father, Alvah, in 1911 and continued practicing until his death in 1949. He married Esther Snyder of Pensaukee, Wisconsin, an elementary teacher in Marinette who was extremely civic minded.

Meredith Sawyer was a member of the Michigan and Supreme Court bar associations, municipal judge, Circuit Court commissioner and Michigan State representative. He was a Rotarian and Mason and president of Menominee School Board. Meredith was a sportsman and enjoyed the mysteries of horticulture.

Richard Alvah Sawyer became associated in practice with his father in 1946. He married Muriel Lundin of Menominee. He is a member of the Michigan Bar Association and a Circuit Court Commissioner. Richard served with the combat forces of the U. S. Coast Guard in the Pacific area from 1942 to 1945. He is currently vice president of the Commercial Bank of Menominee and serves on the board of directors of L. E. Jones Company. This gentlemen's benevolent nature has endeared him to young and old alike.

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Spirit Lake Massacre - near Minneapolis, MN - 1862 - Jedediah Hibbard Ingalls born in Vermont in 1823 died August 19, 1862 in Minnesota territory. Killed by Sioux Indians (Little Crow's band) in Indian uprising, area south of Minneapolis. J. H. was married to Sadie Holmers from Pennsylvania who was in Wisconsin at time of massacre. She later remarried and d at Wausau, WI 1921.

J. H.'s children, born in Sheboygan County, WI, were: Amanda b 1850, George Washington b 20 Apr 1852 and Lavinia b 1854.

Amanda married Leander J. Sheldon and they lived in Brandon, ILL. Chi:  Ben, Julie and George

Lavinia married ____ Clymer, lived in Fergus Falls, MN. We think there were children but have no records.

George Washington married 1883 Florence June Shorey at Aurelia, I0. Ch: Lavinia, Jed Herbert, Amanda Alma, George Harrison, Edna Jane, Ernest Lee, Ida Mae.

George Washington Ingalls was taken by the Indians when his father was killed during the uprising. This was in August 19, 1862. He was released in June 1863 when a Catholic priest - a missionary ransomed him and another boy taken at the same time for 2 horses and 2 blankets. The priest was Father Germaine; George lived with him, worked in the woods, and never did return to his family.

He lived with his son, Jed Herbert parts of the two years preceding his death ca 1934, and Edith Gist recalls:

"He was a tall, slim man, bald when I knew him but had had red hair. He smoked a pipe, liked limburger cheese, doctored his aches and pains with patent medicines and always wore a vest and army wool khaki-colored pants. He hated all Indians with a passion, read the daily newspaper and his penmanship was very readable. He said he didn't find his mother or sisters till later years"....

Submitted by Edith Gist. Thank you, Edith, for sharing this interesting story!

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EATON-INGALLS - abstracted from "The Eaton Family of Nova Scotia" Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, private printing 1929, submitted by Sally Sawyer Michaelsen.

"John Eaton came in a group of Wiltshire families from the vicinity of Salisbury, Wilts. His parentage, or that of his wife, Anne, has never been researched by a genealogist, however, Eatons in Wiltshire were known as early as the Doomsday Visitation of 1086. Burke in his General Armory records the arms of the Wiltshire family.

"The vessel on which he arrived is unknown, however he is recorded, with wife Anne, and six children, in New Salisbury, MA "on the 26th of the 6th month of 1640 ... granted 2 acres for the house lotte, about a stones throw from the towne office."

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EATON-INGALLS - continued

"In 1646 John Eaton was chosen a Grand Juror and also one of five "Prudential Men" to manage the town affairs of New Salisbury.

"He later transferred the house with all rights to his eldest son John, Jr. and moved the remainder of his family to Haverhill.

"He died at Haverhill Oct 29 1668, age 73. His wife, Anne, died February 1660.

"Eaton is a famous name in English history. The family name of the Duke of Westminster is Grosvenor. The founder of the family was Rolfe de Grosvenor from Chester (at the time of Henry VI) who m Joan, only daughter and heiress of John Eton of Eton (now Eaton) who gave him three sons. The family descends from Robert of Eaton. The historic family seat is Eaton Hall."

Ruth Eaton married Samuel Ingalls - B8 - b 1634, son of Edmund - B1 and Ann ____. Ruth dau of John Eaton and Anne.

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BE AWARE: A note from the Jackson County Genealogical Society, MI has warned members about Beatrice Bayley and Sharon Taylor...they said the team offers tours, coat-of-arms, etc. Also they said that Elizabeth Ross of Scranton, Pa.; Anne L. Baker of Lansdale, Pa.; and Mary Whitney of Ottsville, Pa.; operate much the same way. Jackson officials charge the people with taking money under the guise of genealogy and that people check out offers before purchasing.

 DON'T FORGET TO INCLUDE A LONG SELF-ADDRESSED STAMPED ENVELOPE (SASE) WITH YOUR REQUEST FOR MORE INFORMATION ON FAMILY GENEALOGIES.

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QUERY

The following pictures (photos omitted) are from the family of L. AUGUSTUS WALDVOGLE who married LAURA LADOCIA INGALLS (B1576-9), Thiry Richardson. Thiry's grandfather was the Cousin Jean in the Laura Ingalls Wilder stories -- Augustus Eugene Waldvogel.

Can anyone identify the family in this picture? It is thought to be CHARLES and CAROLINE INGALLS and four children. Note that records show son, CHARLES FREDERIOK was b 1875 MN d 1876 MN 9 mos. This picture was taken in N. Topeka, KS; Atherton photographer.

If anyone knows particulars of this picture, respond to Thiry Richardson.

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The group picture  (omitted) is also from the WALDVOGEL family album. Thiry Richardson world like to identify the people . . . it is thought the woman on the right is LAURA LADOCIA INGALLS WALDVOGEL. This is an interesting photo in that the people are dressed-up for the occasion and close scrutiny shows each wearing a special piece of jewelry. Contact Thiry Richardson.

1840 MI Federal Census    Index -   abbreviations are township and county.

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OBITUARIES

ETHEL ADAMS PETERSON, Kasson, Minnesota, died 10 March 1987, 97 yrs. Daughter of Kirk Adams and Ellen M. Hubbs. Ingalls lineage: Edm (1), Henry (2), Henry (3), Henry (4), David B718 (5) Nathaniel (6), David (7), Susan (8) m Abner Sheldon Adams, Kirk Adams (9), Ethel Adams (10).

The former -Ethel A. Adams was born March 1890 in Miles City, MT, and grew up in the Duluth area. She attended Superior State Teachers College and later graduated from Stout Institute in Menominee, WI. On July 21, 1917 she married Arthur Peterson in Superior. The couple lived in Hawkins, WI until moving to Kasson in 1939. She and her husband owned and operated Kasson State Theater. Mr. Peterson d 1960 and she continued to operate the theater until 1968. She was a member of First Presbyterian Church and the order of the Eastern Star in Kasson.

Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Robert (Marjorie) Hoppe of Kasson and Mrs. Alfred (Marion) Bergmann of Brooksville, FL, six grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Two brothers preceded her in death.

Submitted by Jessie Turbenson.

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Obituaries

Perry L. Bailey, college professor

Lansing State Journal

Perry L. Bailey, former professor of geography at Lansing Community College and Michigan State University, died Friday. He was 83.

Bailey, a resident of Lansing and East Lansing since 1944, taught school in Jackson before joining the MSU faculty in 1945. He taught at LCC from 1962 until his retirement in 1969. Students at LCC gave him a special certificate honoring him for outstanding service to the college and its students shortly before his retirement.

Survivors include his wife, Doris; a daughter, Barbara; five bothers, Arlie and Pat  Bailey and Evert Gilmore, all of McBride, Harry Bailey of Syracuse, N.Y., and Glenn Gilmore of Grand Ledge; and a sister, Pearl Steyer of Cleveland.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Paul Episcopal Church. Arrangements are by the Estes Leadley Greater Lansilng Chapel.

Perry L. Bailey, died 1 May, 1987, Lansing, MI. Son of Levi Bailey and Florence Ella Spalding, born in McBride, MI 27 Feb 1904 and had lived in Lansing and East Lansing since 1944.

He was an enthusiastic family historian and assembled a book on the Charles W. Ingalls family of MI. He was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. His lineage is: Edmund (1), Henry (2), Samuel (3), Samuel (4), Timothy (5), Jonathan (6) B614, Jonathon B1584-7, Charles W. (8), Frances (9), Florence Ella (10), Perry L. Bailey (11)

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OBITUARIES

Fenton

INGALLS, John R. - A resident of Fenton, age 71, died Tuesday, February 10, 1997 at McLaren General Hospital. Funeral services will be held 11AM Friday, February^, 13, 1987 at the Dodds-Dumanois-Pins Funeral Home, Rev. Clifford Furness officiating. Burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Fenton. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6-9PM this evening and 1-4 and  6-9PM Thursday. Those desiring. may make contributions to Lake Fenton Methodist Church, the Michigan Cancer Foundation or to charity of choice. Mr. Ingalls was born in Chicago, Illinois, May 31, 1915, the son of Dr. Osgood and Helen (Ransom) Ingalls. He married Beth M. Fuller in Jeffersonville, Indiana, October 23, 1950. He was a member of the Michigan Outboard Association and was involved in hydroplane boat racing across the county and at one time held the position of national champion. He was an avid sportsman and during his high school days in Flint, excelled in many sports, especially baseball. During his early 20s, he played AAA Basketball at the IMA Arena. Mr. Ingalls loved jazz music and played in a professional jazz band in the tri-county area. Mr. Ingalls was employed with Fisher Body for 40 years, retiring in 1975, holding the position of Superintendent of Purchasing & Supply Materials. Surviving are: wife, Beth M. of Fenton; daughter, Sally Miller; granddaughter, Brooke Miller, both of Grand Blanc; many friends. He was preceded in death by grandson, Drew lngalls Miller in 1980. D0DDS-DUMAN0IS-PITTS Golden Rule Funeral Home 511 Main St, Fenton

INGALLS, former area sports great, dies (photo omitted)

The Flint sports community today mourns the death of John Ingalls, one of the area's most versatile athletes during the 1930s and '40s.

Ingalls died Tuesday at McLaren General Hospital. He was 71.

"John was a good guy, that's all," said Mel Winer, one of Ingalls' closest companions since their days at Central High in the early '30s.

INGALLS EXCELLED in baseball and basketball at Central, where he graduated in 1934, and went on to become an accomplished hydroplane racer.

"He was a good player, a steady player," said Winer, a reserve on the Central basketball team during Ingalls' varsity career. "He was a super guy, one of the best I've ever known."

Ingalls and Winer worked together (for nearly 40 years at Fisher Body) and played together. They became noted golf partners in later years.

"We used to play night golf at Genesee Hills with a couple other guys," Winer recalled. "We played until midnight every Wednesday. We'd start out using a flashlight and then have to use a floodlight when it got darker. We would play teams and the high team had to buy the beers.

"John would par holes at night that he couldn't par during the day. On No. 10 out there, he'd par it at night and then knock it out of bounds into the cemetery during the day. You had to keep your head down at night. We never lost a ball, either. Those were great, great times."

INGALLS PLAYED center field in the City Baseball League for years and found success in the City AAA Basketball League at the old IMA Arena. He played for the Fisher Body Maroons in the late '30s.

"When John wasn't playing, he'd still go on the road trips with us," said Winer. "We had a ball."

Ingalls became involved in hydroplane racing and won numerous championships, including a limited national title in Washington in 1941.

After his retirement from Fisher in 1975, Ingalls spent most of his time at his Fenton home with his wife, Beth. They were married nearly 37 years. Also surviving are his daughter Sandy Miller and granddaughter Brooke Miller, both of Grand Blanc.

Services will be Friday at 11 a.m. at Dodds-Dumanois-Pitts Golden Rule Funeral Home, 500 Main St., Fenton. Visitation today is from 1-4 p.m. and 6-9 p.m.

Submitted b Walter LaMotte.

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Muriel Ellen Ingalls Leitner b 18 May 1919 Kearney Hudson, NJ d 20 Jan 1987 El Cajon, CA.

Daughter of Leoren Daboll Ingalls (B3119) and Clara LaFrance Kathan, survived by 5 children and seven grandchildren.

Submitted by Linda Wight, Orlando, FL.

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Copy of letter received from B. L. Ingalls, Augusta, GA to share with readers.

March 15,1984

Re: Search in Register of Deeds Office, Jackson County, Michigan (Land Records)

Concerning: INGALLS, or INGLES, Simon, Fidelia, Charles, Nellie, Elizabeth, Marion, Bertie

I searched all of the records of land transfers from 1830 to 1965. I found one entry of interest.

Grantor: INGALLS, Chas. M.

Grantee: Erastus Sparks Liber 72, Page 496 495- Section B Range 94
(Index showed 496) Lots 9, 10, 11, 12 March 20, 1871

There were many entries under various names and spellings. I attach a list of all other transactions in that time period (1830 to 1965; in case any of them would give a clue to the person inquiring.

INGALS, Anthony D.

Anthony Jr.

F.

W.

W. D.

INGALLS, Aaron T.

Chas. M. (above)

Chester

Francis A.

Joshua

C. W.

Opo Holomerse Dyor

Osmon

Ozro W.

INGELL, Paul F.

INGELS, Anthony Jr.

INGLE, Stanley

INGLES, Anthony D.

Augustus F.

Beatrice J. Samels

Camel L.

Francis

Geo. W.

Harry C.

Henry

Ira Eugene

John

Julia

Marie

Victor

INGOLS, Anthony

Anthony D.

Celia Harriet

Francis

Geo. W.

I think some of these are the same people with different spellings.

Frances A. Gork

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Doctor has theory on the cause of MS

By L. K. WERTHEIMER Associated Press Writer

People in the News (Lewiston, ME, 8 Mar 1987)

-submitted by John Alley Robbins, Jr. Maine

Dr. Theodore Ingalls (photo omitted)

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. - When Dr. Theodore Ingalls felt his muscles weaken during a tennis game 36 years ago, it marked the start of a two-pronged battle: one against a crippling disease and another with the medical community over its cause.

Multiple sclerosis keeps the 78year-old doctor, confined to a wheelchair and causes him to stutter.

But it also helped him come up with a controversial theory about what causes the disease that affects the central nervous system and leads to coordination loss, partial or complete body paralysis, speech problems, visual difficulties and numbness of hands or feet.

"No one has ever been able to describe the beginnings of MS," he said in a recent interview at his home. "MS is such a nasty, slow disease. That's why they look for a slow virus. They believe it so surely that I found they just don't believe me."

Ingalls, an established epidemiologist credited with helping develop the German measles vaccine in the late 1950s, is alone among MS experts with the theory that heavy metal poisoning causes MS.

"The New York-based National MS Society and many other researchers support a theory that an unknown virus triggers the disease.

But Ingalls, a 1933 graduate of Harvard University Medical School and Boston University professor emeritus, is undaunted by skeptics.

Ingalls says he realizes he has no support in his quest; but having MS and dealing with its symptoms are enough motivation.

"I've been through one cane, two canes, now a wheelchair," Ingalls said. `I've had to live with this. I've watched it get worse for 40 years."

"To me, it's a terribly interesting thing to work out the mechanics of something like this damn disease."

Ingalls remembers playing tennis with his wife against another couple when he felt the first pangs of the disease. He tossed the ball to serve, but everything went flat; his legs felt weak.

"That was the last time , I played tennis in my life. I just lost everything in fine tone," said Ingalls.

His symptoms began after an Army dentist put silver amalgam fillings, which contain mercury, in his mouth during World War II.

The teeth, which he had removed, were on the right side - just like his paralysis - leading Ingalls to conclude that the mercury in the fillings caused his ailment.

Having the mysterious disease "makes you remember things," he said. "I remember that dental chair just like someone remembers a bullet wound.

"Here's something that was in my mouth 24 hours a day for 10 years. This was the beginning."

He said he is disappointed his memory doesn't jar the minds of MS experts and persuade some association to give him a research grant.

Dr. Steve Reingold, assistant vice president for research and director of grant management for the MS Society, said Ingalls has no scientific proof.

"There are plenty of people who have silver fillings, and they don't have MS," he said.

Some dentists support Ingalls, but the MS Society issued a memo in 1983 instructing all of its chapters and branches to warn patients to seek a physician's advice before letting dentists remove their silver fillings as a treatment for MS.

Margaret Calvano, director of information and professional education for the society, said she distributed the memo in response to patients' inquiries about Ingalls' theory, which gained notice through articles.