List of Little House on the Prairie characters

Television series characters

Cast timeline

The Ingalls family

The in-laws

Townsfolk

One-shot characters

Season one

• Episode 6
• *Miss Amy Hearn
• Episode 7
• *Olga Nordstrom
• Episode 9
• *Abel Makay
• Episode 11
• *Tinker Jones
• Episode 14
• *Jonathan
• Episode 17
• *Kate Thorvald
• Episode 19
• *Willie O'Hara
• Episode 20
• *Graham Stewart
• *John Stewart
• Episode 21
• *Trudy Coulter
• *Joseph Coulter
• Episode 22
• *Jack Lame Horse
• *Marshal Anders
• Episode 23
• *Hiram Johnson
• *Mimi
• Episode 24
• *Jim Tyler
• *Helen Tyler

  Season two

• Episode 4
• *Jebediah Mumfort
• *Margaret Mumfort
• *Slick McBurney
• Episode 5
• *Amos Pike
• Episode 7
• *Julia Sanderson
• Episode 10
• *Jonah
• Episode 17
• *Hannibal Applewood
• Episode 18
• *Henry Hill
• Episode 19
• *Elizabeth Thurman
• Episode 20
• *Yuli Pyatakov
• *Viktor Pyatakov
• *Fanya Pyatakov
• Episode 21
• *Granville Whipple

  Season three

• Episode 1
• *Caleb Hodgekiss
• *Mattie Hodgekiss
• Episode 4
• *Wendell Loudy
• Episode 6
• *Young Charles Ingalls
• *Lansford Ingalls
• *Laura Colby Ingalls
• *Eliza Ann Ingalls
• *Peter Ingalls
• Episode 9
• *Bubba Galinder
• *George Galinder
• *Sam Galinder
• Episode 10
• *Sam Shelby
• *Ben Shelby
• Episode 14
• *Ginny Clark
• *Harold Mayfield
• *Della Clark
• Episode 15
• *Joseph Spotted Eagle Stokes
• *Seth
• *Jeremy Stokes
• Episode 18
• *Solomon Henry
• *Mrs. Henry
• *Jackson Henry
• *Kramer
• *Dr. Tane
• Episode 19
• *Anna Gillberg
• Episode 20
• *Elmer Dobkins
• *Sam Dobkins
• *Ellen Dobkins
• Episode 21
• *Zachariah
• *Rev. Phillips
• *Ben Griffin

  Season four

• Episode 2
• *Patrick - boy on train
• Episode 3
• *Ellen Taylor
• *Eloise Taylor
• *Cal Taylor
• Episode 4
• *Chris Nelson
• Episode 6
• *Bailey Farrell
• *Timothy Farrell
• Episode 7
• *Stanley Novack
• *Beth Novack
• *Jed Haney
• *Dr. Asa T Logan
• Episode 8
• *Mr. Dankworth
• *Mr. Hobbs
• *Bob Ford
• *Lewis Ford
• Episode 9
• *Judge Picker
• Episode 14
• *Samantha Higgins
• *Jimmy Hill
• Episode 15
• *Nats Rachel Peal
• *Caleb Fisher
• *Katie Fisher
• *Ellen Fisher
• Episode 16
• *Jordan Harrison
• *Young Caroline
• *Younger Laura Colby Ingalls
• *Mr. Watson
• *Harold Watson
• *Peter Ingalls
• *Henry Quiner-Holbrook
• *Polly Ingalls
• *Eliza Ann Quiner-Holbrook
• *Lansford Ingalls
• *Charlotte Holbrook
• *Young Charles Ingalls
• Episode 17
• *Bobby Harris
• *Anna Mears
• *Shaniel Mears
• *Rev. Pritchard
• Episode 21
• *Dr. Burke
• *Miseth Barton

  Season five

• Episode 4
• *John Bevins
• *Bess Bevins
• *Amelia Bevins
• Episode 8
• *Erich Schiller
• *Otto Schiller
• *Anna Schiller
• Episode 15
• *Isaac Singerman
• *Aaron Singerman
• Episode 18
• *Miss Elliot
• *Holly
• *Giles Kendall
• Episode 20
• *Adele Larrabee
• Episode 22
• *Leslie Harper
• *Samantha Harper
• *Bret Harper
• *Thomas Harper
• Episode 24
• *Dylan Whitaker

  Season six

• Episode 3
• *Jeremy Quinn
• Episode 6
• *Russell Harmon
• *Anna Craig Alden
• Episode 9
• *Milo Stavroupolis
• *Anna Stavroupolis
• Episode 10
• *Rev. Danforth
• Episode 12
• *Harold
• Episode 13
• *Tod Dortmunder
• *Brewster Davenport
• *Virginia Davenport
• Episode 20
• *Penelope Parker
• Episode 21
• *Molly Reardon
• Episode 22
• *Miss Trimble

  Season seven

• Episode 1
• *Harv Miller
• Episode 4
• *Dan Ellerbee
• *Pete Ellerbee
• Episode 6
• *Annie Crane
• Episode 7
• *Brenda Sue Longworth
• Episode 8
• *Leslie Barton
• Episode 9
• *Kavendish
• Episode 13
• *Benjamin Cohen
• *Edna Cohen
• Episode 15
• *Hertzell Lundy
• *Timothy
• Episode 17 & 18
• *Sylvia Webb
• *Hector Webb
• *Irv Hartwig
• Episode 19
• *Edgar Mills
• *Edna Mills
• Episode 21
• *Mr Case
• *Jed Cooper
• *Sarah Cooper
• *Alvin Cooper
• Episode 22
• *Isaiah Tomkins

  Season eight

• Episode 1
• *Miss Mason
• Episode 4
• *Dr. Caleb Ledoux
• *Mattie Ledoux
• Episode 5
• *Mortimer Carstairs
• *Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Episode 6
• *Amy Cassidy
• *Rodolfo Gambini
• *Ana Rosa Gambini
• *Marco Gambini
• *Stefano Gambini
• Episode 7
• *Max
• *Georgie
• Episode 8
• *Callahan
• Episode 9
• *Elmer Miles
• Episode 10
• *Major Guffey
• Episode 12
• *Gideon Hale
• *Braden Hale
• *Mrs. Hale
• Episode 14
• *Jack Prescott
• Episode 16
• *Sam Terhune
• *Naomi Terhune
• Episode 20
• *Sherman Andruss
• *Helen Andruss
• *Louisa Beckwith
• *Horace Beckwith
• *Nora Cramer
• Episode 21
• *Danny
• Episode 22
• *Old Man

  Season nine

• Episode 3
• *Lem McCary
• *Jess Moffet
• Episode 4
• *Thomas Stark
• *Constance Stark
• *Elizabeth Stark
• *Randall Page
• Episode 5
• *Lou Bates
• *Mrs. Bates
• Episode 10
• *Jane Canfield
• Episode 12
• *Dr. Marvin Haynes
• Episode 13
• *Linda McAndrews
• *Elliott Reed
• Episode 14
• *Cole Younger
• *Bart Younger
• *Lonnie Younger
• Episode 16
• *Matthew Rogers
• Episode 19
• *Ruthy Leland
• *Dewey Harrison
• Episode 20
• *Buffalo Bill
• *Blanche
• Episode 21
• *Mae Flannery
• Episode 22
• *Philip Rogers
• *Sherwood Montague

  Post-series movies

• Little House: The Last Farewell
• *Nathan Lassiter

  Animals

• Dogs: Jack and Bandit
• Horses: Pat and Patty
• Pony: Bunny
• Goat: Fred
• Bull: Fagin
• Raccoon: Jasper
• Cat: Pepper
• Orangutan: Blanche
• Turkey: Tom
• Chicken: Mathilda
• Cow: Gertrude and Spot

  Ingalls' and Wilder's genealogy

The Ingalls family

• Ingalls line :
• Delano line :
• Colby line :

• Peter Riley Ingalls – born in Cuba, New York. On June 5, 1861, in Brookfield, Wisconsin married Eliza Ann Quiner and they had 6 children. They left Pepin in 1874, together with Laura's family, and stopped in Zumbro Falls, Minnesota. Next they moved to South Troy, Minnesota where the Ingalls visited them for some time.
• *Alice Josephine Ingalls ' – married Arthur Whiting. They had five children, born between 1883 and 1899.
• *Ella Estella Ingalls ' – married Leslie Lee Whiting and had four sons, born between 1885 and 1894. She spent some time in DeSmet, with her husband and the eldest baby Earl Leland.
• *Peter Franklin Ingalls ' – lived with Laura and Almanzo in De Smet for a while. Married Mary Edith "Molly" McGowin and they had between seven and eight children
• *Lansford Newcomb Ingalls '
• *Edith Florence "Dolly Varden" Ingalls ', on June 9, 1892, married Heil Nelson Bingham and they had eight children, born between 1893 and 1912.
• *Edmond Llewellyn Ingalls ', married Edith Mae Ide and they had 6 children..
• Aaron Ingalls . Died at approximately two weeks of age, of "convulsions".
• Charles Phillip Ingalls – Laura's father
• * Mary Amelia Ingalls
• * Laura Elizabeth Ingalls
• * Caroline Celestia 'Carrie' Ingalls
• * Charles Frederick 'Freddie' Ingalls
• * Grace Pearl Ingalls
• Lydia Louise Ingalls – on January 15, 1856, she married Robert Fulton Clough and later – in 1859, Joseph Stouff. She had five children, first of whom was Clough's.
• * Issac Lafayette Clough
• * Amos Alvin Stouff '
• * Minnie Stouff '
• * Amy Stouff '
• * Robert Stouff '
• Polly Melona Ingalls – born in Cuba, New York. In 1859 married Henry Odin Quiner and they had seven children. The family left Pepin with Laura's family in 1868 and both families stopped in Rothville, Missouri. In 1869 they returned to Pepin. Some time later they went West.
• * Louisa Martha Quiner ', m. Walter Smith and had at least one son, William Smith
• * Charles Henry Quiner '
• * James Albert Quiner ', m. Gertrude Frances Price ' in 1903
• * Charlotte A. "Lottie" Quiner ', m. Charles Sheldon ' and had three daughters
• * George Lansford Quiner '
• * Lillian M. "Lillie" Quiner '
• * Ruby Quiner '
• Lansford James Ingalls ' – was married twice; to Sarah Dickinson and later to Mary Dickinson. Both of them were born in England.
• * Samuel James Ingalls '
• * Sara Belle Ingalls '
• * William Walter Ingalls '
• * Mary Elizabeth Ingalls '
• * Andrew Jackson Ingalls '
• * Charles Reuben Ingalls '
• * Edward Eugene Ingalls '
• * Horace Foster Ingalls '
• * Olive May Ingalls '
• * Martha Esther Ingalls '
• Laura Ladocia "Docia" Ingalls – married August Waldvogel and the couple had two children. Next she married Hiram "Hi" Forbes and they had seven daughters. Hiram was a contractor for the Chicago and North Western Railway. They spent some time in DeSmet with the Ingalls but soon moved to Nebraska. They lost contact. Hiram died in 1906, and Docia subsequently moved to Colorado. She died twelve years later.
• * Lena Evelyn Waldvogel ', m. Samuel Aughey Heikes and they had eight children
• * August Eugene "Jean" Waldvogel ', m. first Maria Luella Harmon and subsequently Leona Beatrice Hinton, and had seven children in total. Died in a car accident along with Leona, Verne and Leonard.
• * Ida May Forbes, m. Charles W. Norman
• * Adeline Forbes, m. Algernon "Al" Russell
• * Emma Laura Forbes, m. Henry Schneider
• * Mary Amanda Forbes, m. Edward Oscar Baker
• * Maud Marie Forbes, m. Joseph Gregg or John Gunderson
• * Frances I. Forbes, m. Joseph Halda
• * Katie P. Forbes - possibly married a man with the surname Wilton
• Hiram Lemuel Ingalls – on October 18, 1867, married Sarah Elizabeth Woodward and on February 27, 1919 – Ellen Parker
• * Laura Eliza Ingalls, m. John Monroe Butterfield
• * Ruby Evaline Ingalls, m. Austin Johnson Beers in 1884 and William E. Garrison in 1931
• * Phillip L. Ingalls
• * Sarah Jeanette Ingalls, m. Emil Otto Kreiner and later Bernard Connor in 1896
• * Mary Rose Ellen Ingalls, m. Marion Ormal Kezer
• * Hiram LeRoy "Roy" Ingalls, m. Mathilda Bartosh in 1901
• * Leo Vincent Kreiner Ingalls, m. Viola Edna Edgerton. Adopted by Hiram in 1898.
• George Whiting Ingalls - married Julia E. Bard in Alden, Wisconsin, and moved with her to Webster, Wisconsin
• *"baby boy" Ingalls - died shortly after birth
• *"baby boy" Ingalls - died shortly after birth
• * Benjamin Ingalls - suffocated on the way back from a family visit
• Ruby Celestia Ingalls - married Joseph Card
• * George Card
• * Sherman Card
• * Alma Josephine "Dolly Varden" Card

The Quiner family

• Martha Morse Quiner
• Joseph Carpenter Quiner . He married Nancy Frank in Wisconsin in 1856. Died of wounds suffered at the Battle of Shiloh.
• * Frank R Quiner '
• * John Carpenter Quiner '
• Henry Odin Quiner – born on December 7 in Ohio. He married Polly Ingalls
• Martha Jane Quiner – married Charles Carpenter in 1860 and had fourteen children.
• *William Augustus Carpenter '
• *Joseph Quiner Carpenter ' married Elizabeth C.Reese.
• **Phoebe Carpenter
• **Joseph Carpenter
• **Elizabeth Carpenter
• **Clara Carpenter
• **Martha Carpenter
• **Charles Carpenter
• **Theodore Carpenter
• **Donald Carpenter
• **Lillian Carpenter
• **Emilie Carpenter
• *Lettice "Lottie" Jane Carpenter '
• *Nancy Cora Carpenter '
• *Martha Eliza Carpenter '
• *Millicent Ann Carpenter '
• *Charles Carr Carpenter '
• *Emma Bertha Carpenter '
• *Etta Minerva Carpenter '
• *Martha Josephine Carpenter '
• *Marion Caroline Carpenter '
• *Myrtie Emmeline Carpenter '
• *Thomas Quiner Carpenter '
• *George Lockwood Carpenter '
• Caroline Lake Quiner – Laura's mother
• Eliza Ann Quiner – born on April 21 in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Both families – the Ingalls and the Quiners – moved several times and stopped finally in Jefferson County, Wisconsin. Eliza married Peter Ingalls in Concord, Wisconsin, on June 5, 1861 '.
• Thomas Lewis Quiner ' – born on November 23. He married Lillian Graham 'Lily' Hill and they had six children. They lived for some time in DeSmet. Died in an accident at the Columbia River on February 23, 1903.
• *Helen Marion Quiner '
• *Alice Quiner '
• *Donald Quiner '
• *Lillian Josephine Quiner '
• *Dugald Lewis Quiner '
• *John Hill Quiner '

• Charlotte Elizabeth "Lottie" Holbrook . She married Henry Moore in 1875 and they had five children.
• *Frederick Moore '
• *Arvin Moore '
• *Harry C. Moore '
• *Ralph Moore '
• *Pearl Eva Moore ''''

  Charlotte Tucker

Martha Morse

The Wilder family

• Royal Gould Wilder
• Thomas Payne Wilder
• James Mason Wilder – Almanzo's father. Married Angeline Albina Day.
• *Laura Ann Wilder ' – born June 15, 1844, in 1874 married Harrison Lomanzo Howard.
• **Kearny Howard
• **Angelina Esther Howard ', in 1897 married Fred Merritt.
• ***Ralph Merritt
• ***Ethel Merritt
• ***Howard Merritt
• **Harrison J.Howard '
• **Josephine Howard ', married to William Walker
• **Ralph Waldo Howard ', married to Estelle C.
• ***Charles E. Howard '
• ***Clarence Howard '
• ***James J. Howard '
• ***Ralph R. Howard '
• ***Ralph Waldo Howard '
• ***Paul Martin Howard '
• *Royal Gould Wilder ', born February 20, 1847. In 1893, married Electa Averill Hutchison.
• **Ethel Hutchinson, married Willard Stevens
• **Clyde Hutchinson, married Edna Baily
• **Rae Hutchinson, married Bertha Luedtke
• **Mae Hutchinson, in 1912 married George Pooler
• **Angeline Bernice Wilder ', in 1917 married Arlow Laging and in 1929, George Granger.
• **"baby girl" Wilder '
• **Susan E. Wilder '
• *Eliza Jane Wilder ', born January 3, 1850. In 1893, married Thomas Jefferson Thayer and in 1904, Maxwell Gordon. Died in Los Angeles.
• **Walcott Wilder Thayer ', in 1918 married Frances Cockrell.
• ***Walter Thayer – married Elaine Ditch
• ****Cynthia Thayer
• ****Walter Thayer
• ***Francis Gervaise Thayer – married Alena Jobe.
• ****Thomas Thayer
• ****Larry Thayer
• ***Betty Mae Thayer – married a man with the surname Raymond, and later, married a man with the surname Huey.
• ****Cynthia Raymond
• ****Walter Raymond
• ****David Huey
• ****Joan Huey
• ****Donald Huey
• *Alice Maria Wilder ', born September 3, 1853. In 1879 married Albert A.Baldwin. Died in Florida.
• ** Myrtle Baldwin ', married to John R. Brown
• **Leland Edward Baldwin '
• *Almanzo Wilder
• *Perley Day Wilder ', born June 13, 1869, In 1897 married Elsie Lillian Merritt '. Died in Los Angeles.
• **James Wilder ', married Thelma Gricourt
• **Gladys Wilder '
• **Harold O. Wilder '
• **Perley Wilder Jr., ', married to Ethel Smith, and later, Dolores Moore
• **Dorothy A. Wilder. Married to Carl Pittman
• **John Wilder '
• Hannah Payne Wilder '
• Royal Gould Wilder – born after his eldest brother's death. He became a reverend and married Eliza Jane Smith .
• *Edward Payson Wilder '
• *Mary Jane Wilder '
• *William Royal Wilder '
• *Grace Evelyn Wilder '
• *Robert Parmelee Wilder '
• Phoebe Wilder ' – married Joseph C. Lamson.
• *Chester Lamson ' – married Catherine McDonough.
• **Mabel Lamson '
• *Charles Lamson
• *Gussie Lamson
• *"baby girl" Lamson
• Polly Maria Wilder
• William Wilder - married Adeline Hastins
• *William A. "Willie" Wilder '
• *George Wilder '
• Sarah Charlotte Wilder – married Andrew Day
• *Carrie May Day ' – married Orville Everett.
• **Frances Everett – married a man with the last name of Smith.
• ***Dorothy Belle Smith
• *Elmer A.Day ' – married to Mary MacMaster '
• *Willard R.Day ' – married Emma Hubbard
• *Grace Day ' – married to Grant Collins
• Joshua Prince Wilder''' ''''

  The Day family

• Laura Day
• Delia Day
• Angelina Albina Day – married James Mason Wilder and they had six children, including Almanzo James Wilder. For more information, see above.
• Celinda A.Day
• Andrew J. Day – married Sarah Charlotte Wilder and they had four children. For more information, see the Wilders' tree above.
• John Wesley Day – married Alcesta Lindy.
• *Fred Day
• *Frank Day
• *Albert Day
• *Wilton Day
• George W.Day ''''

  Neighbors, friends and acquaintances

Real people

• Robert and Ellie Boast were neighbors and friends of the Ingalls family.
• Reverend Edward Brown was the reverend and Ingalls's neighbour in De Smet, South Dakota
• Ida Wright-Brown was the Reverend's adopted daughter, and Laura's school friend in De Smet
• Oscar Edmund "Cap" Garland was one of Laura's male school friends. He saved the town from starvation by going 15 miles to find wheat in a blizzard, along with Almanzo Wilder.
• Florence Adelia Garland Dawley was Cap Garland's older sister and a teacher in De Smet.
• Mary Power was Laura's friend in De Smet
• Neta Seal was a real-life close friend of grown-up Laura in Mansfield, Missouri
• Dr. George Tann was the Indians' doctor in Kansas during the Ingalls' stay there

  Characters based on real people

• Lew Brewster was a pseudonym for Louis Bouchie, a homesteader who offered Laura her first teaching job.
• Mr. Edwards, Ingalls' fictional friend
• The Kennedy Family were the Ingalls' neighbors in Walnut Grove, Minnesota; their children went to school with Mary and Laura
• Nellie Oleson was actually three real people: Nellie Owens, Genevieve Masters, and Stella Gilbert.
• Soldat du Chene, was a fictional Osage chief in Kansas during the Ingalls' stay there