Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography

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Ide, George Barton

clergyman, author, was born in 1804, in Coventry, Vt.

He was a baptist clergyman of Springfield, Mass., and the author of Green Hollow; Bible Echoes, or Lessons from the War; The Power of Kindness, a juvenile tale; and Bible Pictures. He died April 6, 1872, in Springfield, Mass.

Idol, Willis

physician, surgeon, legislator, was born May 2, 1863, in Grainger, county, Tenn. At the age of twenty-one he was elected to represent his native county in the lower branch of the fortyfourth general assembly of Tennessee; and was re-elected to the forty-fifth general assembly.

Ihrie, Peter

Congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in cor congress from that state from 1829 to 1833.

Ijams, William P

railroad president, was born Jan. 18, 1847, in Marietta, Ohio. He is president of the Belt Road and Stock Yard company.

Ikirt, George P

physician, congressman, was born in 1852, in West Beaver. In 1884 ne founded the East Liverpool Crisis, a newspaper of Ohio.

In 1892 he was nominated and elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.

Iles, Malvern Wells

metallurgist, was born Aug. 7, 1852, in Midway, Ky. He was chemist and assayer to the Utica Mining and Milling company, and later metallurgist to the Omaha and Grant Smelting company; and superintendent and metallurgist to the Holden Smelting company in Denver, Colo.

Ilsley, Charles Parker

author, poet, was born in 1807, in Maine. He was a writer whose home was in Portland, Maine, till 1866. He was the author of The Island Fete, a poem; The Liberty Pole, a tale of Machias; and Forest and Shore, subsequently published as The Wrecker's Daughter. He died in 1887.

Ilsley, Daniel

manufacturer, congressman, was born in 1740, in Falmouth, Mass. He served three years in the state legislature; and was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1807 to 1809. He died in 1813.

Imlay, James H

educator, congressman. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1797 to 1801.

Immell, Lorenzo D

soldier, educator, lawyer, public official, was born June 18, 1837, in Ross county, Ohio. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of Ohio, and attended the Ottumwa, Iowa, seminary. He entered the army during the civil war as a private, and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel. He has been a successful teacher, financier; has filled numerous offices of honor; and is now a successful lawyer of St. Louis, Mo.

Ingalls, Charles Russell

jurist, was born Sept. 14, 1819, in Greenwich, N. Y. He has been supreme court justice continuously for twenty-six years, and retired from the bench Jan. 1, 1890, having attained the age of seventy.

Ingalls, John James

soldier, journalist, lawyer, statesman, was born Dec. 29, 1833, in Middleton, Mass. He was secretary of the Arkansas state senate in 1861. He was a member of the state senate from Atchison county in 1862; major, lieutenant-colonel, and Judge-advocate Kansas volunteers in 1863-65. He was elected to the United States senate as a republican; took his seat March 4, 1873, and was re-elected in 1879 and 1885, his last term expiring in 1891.

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