Ingham, Samuel
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Sept. 5, 1793, in Hebron, Conn. From 1827 to 1835 he was state's attorney for the county of Middlesex, and again in 1843 and 1844. He was a judge of probate from 1829 to 1833; and judge of the Middlesex county court from 1849 to 1853. He was a representative in congress from Connecticut from 1835 to 1839. He also served a number of years in the senate and house of representatives of Connecticut; three years as speaker, and was one year clerk of the house. In 1854 he was a candidate for the office of United States senator, and received the entire vote of his party in the legislature, but Senator Foster was elected. In 1857 he was appointed commissioner of customs. He died Nov. 10, 1881, in Essex, Conn.
He INGHAM, SAMUEL DULUCENNA, lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 16, 1779, in Pennsylvania. served three years in the Pennsylvania legislature; and held for a time the office of prothonotary to one of the courts of that state. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1813 to 1818, and from 1822 to 1829; and was then appointed by President Jackson secretary of the treasury. He died June 5, 1860, in Trenton, N. J.