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Ingalls was Laura's maiden name. She was born Laura Elizabeth Ingalls on February 7, 1867, in Pepin, Wisconsin. Her parents were Charles Phillip Ingalls and Caroline Lake Quiner Ingalls. Laura had three sisters: Mary, Carrie, and Grace, and a brother named Charles Frederick. The Ingalls family moved to Kansas when Laura was two years old, and they later lived in Minnesota, Iowa, and Dakota Territory.