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350 licensed by the presbytery in 1801. In 1802 he be- came pastor of a church in Baltimore, Md., which charge he held till his death. In 1814 he was moderator of the general assembly of his denomi- natiuii. The degree of D. D. was conferred on hi in by Princeton in 1811. Dr. Inglis was an elo- quent preacher, and published various occasional Bermons, and a volume of his discourses, accom- panied by forms of prayer, appeared after his death (1820). — His son, John Auchincloss, jurist, b. in Baltimore, Md., 26 Aug., 1813 ; d. there, 26 Aug., 1878, was graduated at Dickinson in 1831, studied law, and began to practise in Cheraw, S. 0. He be- came judge of the court of common pleas and gen- eral sessions, and of the supreme court of appeals, and was also appointed one of the four chancellors of the state. He was president of the State con- vention that adopted the ordinance of secession, and drafted that document. His house and library were destroyed by Sherman's army in the burning of Columbia in 1864. In 1868 he removed to Bal- timore, where he entered into practice, and in 1870 he 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. Shortly before his death he was appointed by the board of trade a judge of the new court of arbitration. Judge Inglis was active in religious matters, and for several years before his death served as a ruling elder in a Pres- byterian church in Baltimore.

INGLIS, Mary, the first white woman in Ken- tucky, b. in 1729 ; d. in 1813. In 1756 one of the extreme frontier settlements of Virginia, on Alle- ghany ridge (now Montgomery county, W. Va.), was attacked by a party of Shawnee Indians, who massacred some of the inhabitants and made others captives. Among the latter were Mrs. Inglis, with her two sons and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Draper. They were carried down the Kanawha to the In- dian towns at the mouth of Scioto river, where her children were separated from her. Mrs. Inglis won great favor among the savages by her skill in making shirts out of the checked fabrics that they had purchased of French traders. The separation from her sons and the cruelty of the savages finally decided her to attempt her escape, and she per- suaded another prisoner, an old Dutch woman, to join her. Obtaining leave to gather grapes, they disappeared in the woods and underbrush and set out on their journey, following the Ohio valley 140 miles back to a point opposite the Scioto towns. They were fortunate enough to find an old horse grazing on the Kentucky side, and to secure some corn and meat for their further journey. Pressing on to the Virginia line, they found Big Sandy river impassable. Turning their course up the stream, they came to a raft of trees and logs which stretched across the river. Over this they passed, but, unfor- tunately, lost their horse. After they had wandered on toward the Kanawha, their store of provisions was exhausted and they were forced to live upon grapes, walnuts, papaws, and roots. In this ex- treme of suffering the Dutch woman became fran- tic with hunger and exposure, and finally, after repeated threats, made a deadly assault upon Mrs. Inglis. Escaping her fury, the latter wandered by moonlight along the banks of the Kanawha, and found an old Indian canoe, in which she crossed to the opposite shore. At daylight her companion discovered her situation and begged piteously to be carried over also ; but this Mrs. Inglis dared not risk. She started alone up the Kanawha, and soon found a clearing and a settler's cabin, whence a party was sent back and returned in safety with the Dutch woman. The captives had been over forty days in their flight through the wilderness, during which they traversed a distance of more than 400 miles. One of the little boys died in cap- tivity, and the other was ransomed after remaining thirteen years among the savages. Mrs. Inglis's daughters married men who became distinguished in the history of Virginia and Kentucky.

INGRAHAM, Duncan Nathaniel, naval officer, b. in Charleston, S. C, 6 Dec. 1802 ; d. in Charleston. S. C, 16 Oct.. 1891. His father. Nathaniel, was in the action with the British brig " Serapis," and his uncle, Capt. Joseph Ingraham, was lost at sea in the U. S. ship "Pickering." Duncan Nathaniel entered the XT. S. navy as a midshipman in June, 1812, and became lieutenant, 1 April, 1818; commander, 24 May, 1838; and captain, 14 Sept., 1855. While commanding the sloop-of-war " St. Louis," in the Mediterranean, he interfered at Smyrna, in July, 1853, with the Austrian consul's detention of Martin Koszta, who had resided nearly two years in the United States and declared his intention of becoming an American citizen. He had come to Smyrna from New York on business intending soon to return, but on 21 June, 1853, he was seized by a party of armed Greeks that were employed by the Austrian consul-general and con- fined on board the "Hussar." After learning the facts from the prisoner Capt. Ingraham addressed a letter on this subject to John P. Brown, the charge d'affaires of the United States in Con- stantinople, who gave the official opinion that the surrender of Koszta should be demanded. On 2 July, at 8 a. m., Capt. Ingraham claimed of the Austrian commander the release of Koszta by 4 p. m., declaring that he would otherwise take him by force. At the same time the decks of the " St. Louis " were cleared for action, and all was made ready for an attack on the " Hussar," which was much her superior in size and armament. At 11 a. m. the Austrian consul-general proposed to de- liver Koszta to the French consul, to be held by him subject to the disposition of the U. S. and Austrian consuls. This was accepted by Capt. Ingraham as giving sufficient assurance of the per- sonal safety of the Hungarian, and Koszta was soon released and returned to the United States. This affair gave rise to an elaborate discussion in Washington between Sec. William L. Marcy and M. Hulsemann, the charge d'affaires of Austria. The conduct of Capt. Ingraham was fully approved by the U. S. government, and on 4 Aug., 1854, con- gress, by joint resolution, requested the president to present him with a medal. In March, 1856, he was appointed chief of the bureau of ordnance and hydrography of the navy department. When the civil war began, in 1861, he was in command of the flag-ship " Richmond " in the Mediterranean. He resigned his commission, and entered the Con- federate naval service, being chief of ordnance, con- struction and repair, and in which he rose to the rank of commodore. He served in every war since- the Revolution, and was said to be the last sur- vivor of those that entered the navy in 1812. He married Harriet, granddaughter of Henry Laurens.

INGRAHAM, Edward Duncan, lawyer, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1793; d. there, 4 Nov., 1854. He received his education at the University of Pennsylvania, studied law under Alexander J. Dallas, and was admitted to the bar in 1813. He was a member of the Free-trade convention that was held in Philadelphia in 1831. In 1834 he became secretary of a committee that was appointed by the house of representatives to investigate the affairs of the IT. S. bank, and held this office until