Mose Ingram was born and raised in the now resettled community of Kingwell in Placentia Bay on the island segment of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Here he attended a two-room school graduating in June of 1957. In September of the same year, at the age of Seventeen, he began a teaching career at the one-room school in Little Bay in Hermitage Bay. He taught in various parts of the province for the next twelve years, gaining an insight into the folklore, customs, and different dialects that existed on the island at the time. After leaving the teaching profession he spent 47 years in Arnold's Cove and now lives in Clarkes Beach.