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Ingersoll, Robert Green

lawyer, orator, author, poet, was born Aug. 11, 1833, in Dresden, N. Y. He is a noted lawyer and politician of Peoria, Ill., and more recently of New York city, famous also as a lecturer and writer strongly opposed to the christian religion. He is the author of The Gods; Ghosts; Some Mistakes of Moses; Complete Lectures; and Prose Poems.

INGHAM, CHARLES CROMWELL, artist, was born in 1796, in Ireland. He was one of the founders of the National academy of design, and was its vicepresident from 1845 to 1850. Besides his portraits he painted a few ideal compositions, among them may be mentioned, The White Plume; Scene from Don Juan; and Day Dreams. He died Dec. 10, 1863, in New York city.