Ingersoll, Charles L – Ingraham, Joseph Holt
Ingersoll, Charles L
college president, was born Nov. 1, 1844, in Perry, N. Y. In 1882 Professor Ingersoll accepted the presidency of Colorado Agricultural college, and in 1891 was elected fellow of the Society of Science, Literature and Arts, of London, England, a most unusual distinction for so young a man.
Ingersoll, Charles Roberts
lawyer, legislator, governor, was born Sept. 16, 1821, in New Haven, Conn. He was frequently elected to the state legislature; and was governor of Connecticut from 1873 to 1876.
Ingersoll, Colin Macrae
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1820, in Connecticut. He was secretary of legation at St. Petersburg, by appointment of President Polk; and was a representative in congress from Connecticut from 1851 to 1855.
Ingersoll, Ebon C
lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 12, 1831, in Oneida county, N. Y. In 1856 he was elected to the Illinois legislature. In 1864 he was elected a representative from Illinois to the thirty-eighth congress, to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected to the thirty-ninth, fortieth and forty-first congresses. He died June 1, 1879.
Ingersoll, Edward
author, poet, He wrote poems under the pen-name of Horace for the Port-folio, and contributed articles to Walsh's Gazette. He was the author of Digest of the Laws of the United States.
Ingersoll, Edward
author, was born April 2, 1817, in Philadelphia, Pa.
He is the author of History and Law of Habeas Corpus and Grand Juries; and Personal Liberty and Martial Law.
Ingersoll, Ernest
naturalist, author, was born March 13, 1852, in Monroe, Mich. He is a naturalist of New York city whose writing is mainly for young people, and of a popular character. He is the author of Friends Worth Knowing; Natural History of Insects; Knocking Around the Rockies; Nests and Eggs of American Birds; The Crest of the Continent; Strange Adventures of a Stowaway; Down East Latch Strings; The Ice Queen, a story; Birds'-Nesting; Country Cousins, or Short Studies in Natural History; Old Ocean; To the Shenandoah and Beyond; and Habits of Animals.
Ingersoll, Henry Hulbert
soldier, lawyer, jurist, lecturer, was born Jan. 20, 1844, in Oberlin, Ohio. In 1863 he graduated from Yale college; and he has attained success as a brilliant lecturer and as one of the foremost lawyers of the south. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in the seventh regiment Ohio volunteer infantry. In 1876 he was the democratic elector for president and vicepresident of the United States. During 1879-81 he was judge of the supreme court commission of Tennessee; trustee of Emory and Henry college of Virginia during 1887-93; trustee of the university of the south during 1898-1900; and since 1890 he has been dean in the law department of the university of Tennessee at Knoxville.
Ingersoll, Jared
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1749, in Connecticut. He was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the continental congress in 1780 and 1781. He was for many years attorney-general for Pennsylvania; and was judge of the district court of the United States at the time of his death.
He died Oct. 31, 1822, in Philadelphia, Pa. a
Ingersoll, Joseph Reed
lawyer, congressman, author, was born July 14, 1786, in Philadelphia. He graduated at Princeton college in 1804, and was a lawyer by profession.
He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1835 to 1837, and from 1842 to 1849. He was appointed in 1852 minister to England. He was the author of Memoir of Samuel Breck. He died Feb. 20, 1868, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Ingersoll, Luther Dunham
librarian, author. He is the librarian of the war department at Washington, and the author of Iowa and the Rebellion; Life of Horace Greeley; and History of the War Department.
Ingersoll, Ralph Isaacs
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born in New Haven, Conn. He served in the legislature of Connecticut several years; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1825 to 1833. In 1833 he was appointed attorney for the state; and was appointed by President Polk minister plenipotentiary to Russia. He died Aug. 26, 1872, in New Haven, Conn.
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.
Ingham, Mary Bigelow
educator, author, was born March 10, 1832, in Mansfield, Ohio. She received her education at the Norwalk seminary, Ohio; the Baldwin institute of Berea, Ohio; and received the degree of Mistress of Liberal Arts from the Woman's college of Ohio. She has been corresponding secretary of the Cincinnati branch of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society; a leader in the woman's temperance crusade of 1874; and a founder of the National Woman's Christian Temperance union; and its first treasurer. She was a founder of the Cleveland school of art, and secretary for years of its board of trustees. She was president of the woman's department of the Cleveland centennial commission; and the author of Women of Cleveland and Their Work.
In early life she was engaged in educational work; and has always contributed extensively to newspapers and magazines.
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.
Inglehart, Mrs. Frances
author, was born in Texas. She is a writer of Austin, Texas, and the author of Face to Face with the Mexicans.
Inglis, David
clergyman, author, was born June 8, 1825, in Scotland. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Brooklyn who published Systematic Theology in. Relation to Modern Thought. He died Dec. 15, 1877, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Inglis, John Auchincloss
law-- yer, jurist, was born Aug. 26, 1813, in Bal-- timore, Md. He moved to Baltimore, Md., in 1870, and accepted a professorship in the law department of the university of Maryland. in 1874 he was appointed. judge of the orphan's court, and he was re-elected in 1875. He died Aug. 26, 1878, in Baltimore, Md.
Ingraham, Daniel Phoenix
jurist, was born April 22, 1804, in New York city. He was elected a justice of the supreme court of New York in 1857; and in 1870 he was presiding justice of the supreme court of the first district in New York. He died Dec. 12, 1881.
Ingraham, Duncan Nathaniel
naval officer, was born Dec. 6, 1802, in Charleston, S. C. He served in every war since the revolution; and attained the rank of commodore; and was said to be the last survivor of those that entered the navy in 1812. He died Oct. 16, 1891, in Charleston, S. C.
Ingraham, Edward Duncan
lawyer, author, was born in 1793, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a lawyer of Philadelphia, and the author of English Ecclesiastical Reports; and A View of the Insolvent Laws of Pennsylvania. He died Nov. 4, 1854, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Ingraham, Joseph Holt
clergyman, author, was born in 1809, in Portland, Maine. He was an episcopal clergyman of Holly Springs, Miss. He was the author of Lafitte: the Pirate of the Gulf; Captain Kyd; and The Dancing Feather.
The Southwest, by a Yankee, was another work of this period. He entered the episcopal ministry in 1855, and afterward wrote three religious romances as popular as the others, and almost as valueless. They are, The Prince of the House of David; The Pillar of Fire; and The Throne of David. He died December, 1860, in Holly Springs, Miss.