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and Katherine (Brander) Hathaway, a de- scendant of Captain Thomas Harris, who came from England to Virginia in 1611.

Robert Stevens Ingersoll, M. D. Dr. In-

gersoll descends from English forbears who on coming to the United States settled in the state of New York. Dr. IngersoU's grandfather, Jonathan E. Ingersoll, was born in the city of Elmira, New York, and died about the year 1900, aged seventy-five

years, his wife, Maria, also a native

of New York state, died the same year.

Cyrus Birtis Ingersoll, son of Jonathan E. and Maria Ingersoll, was born in Hills- dale county, Michigan, December 11, 1848, died in 1900. He was a dairyman and gen- eral farmer, and a member of the Seventh Day Adventist church. He married, Octo- ber 17, 1872, Ida Susan Nichols, born in the same county as her husband, October 17, 1855, who survives him, a resident of West Olive, Michigan. She is the daughter of Aaron Nichols, a farmer, born in New York state, died in Michigan in 1861, and his wife, Susan (Monroe) Nichols, born in Hillsdale county, Michigan, died in 1880. Children, now living: Robert Stevens, of whom further ; Harlow Herbert, born May 24, 1876, now a building contractor in Grand Rapids, Michigan ; Susan M., born December 13, 1885, died April 17, 1912; Lottie O., born June 4, 1891, now living with her mother at West Olive, Michigan.

Dr. Robert Stevens Ingersoll, eldest son of Cyrus Birtis and Ida Susan (Nichols) Ingersoll, was born at Adrian, Michigan, January 12, 1874. His early and prepara- tory education was obtained in the public schools of Adrian and Hillsdale High School; his professional education at the medical department of the University of Michigan, Rush Medical School, Chicago, Guyes Hospital, London, England, and the University College of London. He was graduated Doctor of Medicine from the Uni- versity of Michigan in 1898, and for a few months thereafter practiced in a sanitarium at Battle Creek, Michigan. He then ac- cepted an offer to go to Calcutta, India, where for eight years he had charge of a medical and surgical sanitarium. He re- turned to the United States where for seven months he pursued a post-graduate course at Rush Medical School in Chicago. He

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then went abroad and for a year was in Lon- don, England, doing post-graduate work at Guyes Hospital and University College of Medicine, becoming a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of London. He re- turned to the United States on a call, and for two and a half years was medical su- perintendent of the Takoma Park Sanitar- ium at Washington, D. C. In 191 1 he located at Richmond, Virginia, where he established at 210 East Grace street the Virginia Sani- tarium. He is a Democrat in politics and a member of the Seventh Day Adventist church.

Dr. Ingersoll married, at Hillsdale, Michi- gan, June 23, 1898, Olive Grace Perry, born in that city, April 16, 1873, only child of David Perry, a harness manufacturer, and his wife, Sarah J. (Wells) Perry. Mrs. In- gersoll is a graduate of the medical depart- ment of the University of Michigan, Doctor of Medicine, class of 1898, and is associated professionally with her husband in the Vir- ginia Sanitarium. Their children are: Sarah Ida, born August i, 1900; Birtis Perry, born February 18, 1905 ; both attending the Sev- enth Adventist Day Church School on Mor- ris street, Richmond.

William Samuel Murray. William Sam- uel Murray, for so many years a business man of the city of Richmond, was a de- scendant of John Murray, Earl of Dun- more, the last of Virginia's colonial gov- ernors. He was a son of Samuel Miller Murray, who owned the Murray home- stead farm three miles northeast of Rich- mond, and there lived until the destruc- tion of the home by fire. He then moved to Richmond and became famous locally as an artistic carver in hardwoods, much of his work yet being preserved in the old homes of the city in the form of exquisitely carved cabinets of mahogany and rosewood. The family possessions were largely lost during the Civil war which necessitated the rising generation engaging in business, al- though reared to lives of luxury and ease. William Samuel Murray was born at the Murray homestead, then owned by his father. May 31, 1843. died in Richmond, June 29, 1908, son of Samuel Miller and Flora Virginia (Holmes) Murray. He spent his boyhood upon the home farm and was educated in private schools, Dr. Frazier's