James Ingram was a local newsagent and bookseller
and who served the local community for over 70 years in various
capacities.
He was instumental in establishing the Ovens & District Hospital,
Ovens & Murray Hospital for the Aged, Mayday Hills Mental
Hospital and the Beechworth Primary School. Was known as Beechworth's
Grand Old Man. He died in March 1928 just 6 weeks short of his
100 Birthday, and is buried in the Beechworth Cemetery.