{"value"=>"<p>George and Clara Ingraham were George Willis' maternal grandparents. Their daughter, Mary Macdonald Ingraham, was George Willis' mother. George Ingraham was a litigation attorney in New York before going to work for the Phenix Insurance Company of Brooklyn, founded by his father-in-law, Stephen Crowell, in 1902. Ingraham eventually became vice-president of Phenix.</p> <p>In addition to his business activities, Ingraham was also an accomplished amateur musician and lyricist. As a wedding present for his wife, he set the words of Edward Lear's famous nonsense poem, \"The Owl and the Pussycat\" to music. He called the piece \"A Love Song, Male Chorus,\" and eventually he contracted with a music publisher in New York to market his composition.</p> <p>Ingraham was also involved in genealogy, especially as it related to his in-laws, the Crowells. In fact, he was responsible for compiling much of the genealogical information now in the Crowell folders, and several of those documents exhibit his annotations and notes from interviews he conducted with his father-in-law.</p>"}