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346 that met 4 July, 1811, may be said to be princially the work of Infante. When the first presient of the independent government, Carrera, was elected commander-in-chief of the forces that marched to repel the invasion of Gen. Pareja, Infante was elected regent of the governing junta. During his term the junta adopted the national flag, and founded the National institute of science and numerous primary schools throughout the counti'y. In 1814 Infante was sent as diplomatic agent to the revolutionary government of Buenos Ayres, where he remained for some time, but after the battle of Chacabuco, 12 Feb., 1817, he re- turned to his country, and was appointed secretary of the treasury by the director Higgins in 1818. He introduced many improvements during his short term of office, and, not being in accord with the director, he soon resigned. On 28 Jan., 1823, with other citizens, he convened a public meeting, and defended the liberty of the nation. O'Hig- gins in consequence resigned the executive. In the same year Gen. Freire was elected president of the republic, and offered Infante a seat in the superior court, which he at first declined, but afterward ac- cepted. His first measure was the abolition of slavery in the territory of Chili, which in later years he counted his principal glory. He desired that the only inscription on his tomb should be " The author of the law of abolition." When Gen. Freire marched for the second time against the Spanish forces in the archipelago of Chiloe in 1824, he instituted a council of regency, of which Infante was president, and one of his principal measures was the banishment of the bishop Zorrilla, whose intrigues were threatening the public security. Infante was an admirer of the United States, and in 1826 as senator laid before congress a proposi- tion to form a federal republic. As his ideas were not generally accepted, he supported them by founding in 1827 " El Valdiviano Federal." of which he was the editor, and till his death he con- tinued to write all the leading articles for this pa- per. In 1830 Infante was elected to congress, but soon resigned. In 1843 his eminent services were acknowledged by the appointment of first judge of the supreme court and member of the faculty of law of the University of Chili, but he refused both places. Recently congress erected a statue in his honor in the Alameda of Santiago.

INGALLS, John James, statesman, b. in Mid- dleton, Mass., 29 Dec, 1833. He was graduated at Williams in 1855, studied law, and was" admitted to the bar in 1857. He removed to Atchison, Kan., in 1858, and practised his profession, was a mem- ber of the Wyandotte convention of 1859, secretary of the territorial council in 1860, and of the state senate in 1861, and a member of the latter body in 1862. In the same year he was an unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant-governor. After his de- feat he accepted the editorship of the Atchison " Champion," which he retained for three years. He was again defeated for the lieutenant-governorship in 1864, but was elected to the United States senate for the term beginning in 1873, and was twice re-elected, and in 1887 was president pro tempore of the senate. He is an able debater.

INGALLS, Rufus, soldier, b. in Denmark, Me., 23 Aug., 1820. He was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1843, and joined the rifle- corps, but was transferred to the 1st dragoons in 1845. He was in the battles of Embudo and Taos, New Mexico, in 1847, became 1st lieutenant, 16 Feb., 1847, and was made assistant quartermaster, with the rank of captain, 12 Jan., 1848. He then served in California and in Oregon, was in Col. Edward J. Steptoe's expedition across the conti- nenl, and from 1856 till 1860 was stationed at Fort Vancouver, being on the staff of Gen. Harney at the time of the San Juan affair. In April, 1861, he was sent to re-enforce Fort Pickens, and in July was ordered to duty with the Army of the Potomac. He was appointed aide-de-camp to Gen. McClellan, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, on 28 Sept., major in the quartermaster's department, 12 Jan.. 1862, and was chief quartermaster in the Army of the Potomac from 1862 till 1865. He be- came brigadier-general of volunteers, 23 May, 1863, and colonel and assistant quartermaster-general, 29 July, 1866. He was present at the battles of South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chan- cellorsville, Gettysburg, and the subsequent battles, till the surrender of Lee. He received the brevet of brigadier-general in the regular army in 1864, and that of major-general, for meritorious services during the war, on 13 March, 1865, was mustered out of volunteer service, 1 Sept., 1866. and was stationed as chief quartermaster at New York city from April, 1867, to 31 July, 1876. He was re- assigned to New York city, 1 March, 1881, and re- lieved 14 March, 1882, to become quartermaster- general of the army. Gen. Ingalls was retired from the service at his own request on 1 July, 1883.

INGALLS, William, physician, b. in New- buryport, Mass., 3 May, 1769; d. in Wrentham, Mass., 8 Sept., 1851. His ancestor, Edmund, of Lynn, came from Lincolnshire. England, in 1629. William was graduated in 1790 at Harvard, where he received the degree of M. D. in 1801. From 1811 till 1823 he was professor of anatomy and surgery at Brown. He published " Malignant Fevers " (1847).

INGE, Samuel W., lawyer, b. in North Caro- lina ; d. in San Francisco, Cal.. in 1867. He re- moved to Greene county, Ala., when young, stud- ied law, was admitted to the bar, and began to practise in Livingston county. In 1844-'5 he was a member of the state house of representatives, and from 1847 till 1851 a representative to con- gress, having been chosen as a Democrat. During this time he fought a duel in Bladensburg with Edward Stanley, of North Carolina. He then re- sumed his practice, and was afterward appointed by President Pierce U. S. attorney for California.

INGENHOUS, Jean Simon (ing-en-hows), Dutch explorer, b. in Maestrich in 1701 ; d. in Rotterdam in 1769. His father was a famous surgeon, and the son was also graduated in surgery, obtaining an appointment in 1723 on a ship that belonged to the Indian company. On returning to Amsterdam the vessel foundered at sea, and the crew, after several days of suffering in an open boat, was rescued by a passing Spanish man-of-war that was bound for Buenos Ayres. In that city Ingenhous was taken sick with fever and brought to the hospital of the Jesuits, who saw at once the opportunity of attaching to their order a physician of repute. They nursed him with the best care, and when he was convalescent took him to a villa in the country. Ingenhous at last succumbed to their suggestions, and having abjured the Reformed church in 1725, became a Jesuit in 1728. In the following years he was attached to the missions of the Para, and resided several years on the borders of the river Tocantin. In 1742 he was elected provincial of the Uruguay missions, and greatly benefited the condition of the Indians in those countries, altogether increasing the influence of the order. But he had retained doubts regarding his change of religion, and, on the expulsion of the Jesuits from South America in 1767, returned to Amsterdam, where he abjured the Roman Catholic