Later Life
After resigning as Secretary of the Treasury, Ingham resumed the manufacture of paper and also engaged in the development of anthracite coal fields. He was involved with the organization of the Beaver Meadow Railroad Company which he was president of. He was also connected with the organization of the Hazelton Coal Company. He also worked to promote canals such at the Lehigh Navigation Canal and the Delaware Division Canal. He moved to Trenton, New Jersey in 1849 where he worked with that cities Mechanics Bank.
Ingham died in Trenton, New Jersey and is interred in the Solebury Presbyterian Churchyard, Solebury, Pennsylvania. Ingham County, Michigan, one of several Cabinet counties named for members of Jackson's administration, is named in Ingham's honor.
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