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t'.ie department of ballistics at the artillery s.'iiool, Fort Monroe, and was made the first instructor, Dec. 19, 1882, which position he held until the school suspended operations in the spring of 1898 on account of the war with Spain. He was also senior instructor in practical artil- lery exercises, class of 1884; in engineering, class of 1888; in electricity and defensive torpedoes, cla-sses of 1884. 1886. 1888 and 1890; and in sig- nalling. 1884-88. He prepared the first text-book on ballistics for the use of the school, embracing all the best modern methods employed in Europe, which was published in September, 1883 (2ded., 1885; 3d ed., 1886), and wjis the first treatise on exterior ballistics published in the United States. He is also the author of: Ballistic Machines (1885); Handbook of Problems in Exterior Ballis- tics (1890: 3d ed., 1900); Handbook of Problemsin Direct Fire (1890; rev. ed., 1900); Interior Bal- listics (1890; rev. ed., 1894); Ballistic Tables for Direct, Curved and High- Angle Fire (1891); Bal- listics for the Instruction of Artillery Gunners (1893); Ballistic Pi'oblems in Indirect and Curved P/re (1899), and many important tables, essays, reports, papers and contributions on artillery subjects to American and foreign professional journals and to " Johnson's Cyclopaedia." His works on ballistics were accepted as authoritative by artillerists in America and Europe.

INGALLS, John James, senator, was born in Middleton, Mass., Dec. 29, 1833; son of Elias Theodore and Eliza (Chase) Ingalls; grandson of Theodore and Ruth (Flint) Ingalls; and a descendant of Edmund Ingalls, who, with his brother Francis, came with Eudicott from England in 1629 and founded Lynn, Mass.; and of Aquilla Chase, who settled in New Hampshire in 1630. When fourteen years old he contributed both in prose and verse to the Carpet Bag, to the Knicker- bocker Magazine, to '0^::-^ ^ the Boston Tran-

,^^ /I Jrk /iM script and to the lo- / yy^y.(mp^/^. cal papers of Haver- f hill, where he was

brought up and prepared for college. He was graduated at Williams in 1855, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1857. He re- moved to Sumner, Kan., in October, 1858, where he joined the Free-soil party, and the next year was a delegate to the Wyandotte constitutional convontion. Ho was secretary of the territorial council in 1860; secretary of the .state senate in

1861; state senator from Atchison county in 1862, and was defeated in 1863, and again in 1864, for election as lieutenant-governor. He was married, in 1861, to Anna Cheeseborough, of New York city. In 1872 he refused nomination for representative in congress. He joined the state militia and held the ranks of major, lieutenant- colonel and judge advocate, 1863-65. He edited the Atchison Champion, aided in founding the Kansas Magazine, and became well-known as a writer by his "Blue Grass" and " Catfisli Aris- tocracy," published first in its pages. In 1873 he was a candidate for U.S. senator, as successor to Senator S. C. Pomeroy, and he was almost unanimously elected, after a state senator on the floor had denounced Pomeroj^ as the giver of a large bribe to secure the state senator's vote. Ingalls took his seat, March 4, 1873, and was twice re-elected, his last term in the senate ex- piring March 3, 1891. He was chairman of the committee on the District of Columbia and a member of the judiciary, pensions, quadro-cen- tennial and rules committees. He succeeded John Sherman as jsresident of the U.S. senate pro tempore, and served as such from 1887 to 1891. In 1891, in the contest for re-election, he was defeated by William Alfred Peflfer, of To- peka, a member of the Populist party. He re- ceived the degree of LL.D. from Williams college in 1884. After leaving the senate he engaged in lecturing and in literature. Suffering from an affliction of the throat he travelled in Arizona and New Mexico in 1899-1900. where, in July, 1900, his wife and sons, Ellsworth andSheflield, joined him. He died at East Las Vegas, N.M., Aug. 16, 1900. INGALLS, Rufus, soldier, was born in Den- mark, Maine, Aug. 23, 1818; son of Cyrus and Sarah (Barker) Ingalls. He was graduated at the U.S. Military academy in 1843, was brevetted 2d lieutenant and assigned to the U.S. rifles. He was promoted lieutenant and transferred to the 1st dragoons in 1845; served in New Mexico, 1845-47, and was in the fights at Embudo. Jan. 29, 1847, and Pueblo de Taos, Feb. 4, 1847. He was promoted 1st lieutenant, Feb. 16, 1847; cap- tain and assistant-quartermaster, Jan. 12. 1848: was on duty in California, 1848-53; returned to Washington, D.C., 1853; was on the Steptoe ex- pedition which crossed the continent, 1854-55: on the commission to examine the war debt of Washington and Oregon territories, 1857-58. and served on the staff of General Harney while tiiat officer was in command of the Department of Oregon during the San .Juan difficulties in July, 1859. He was ordered east, and in Ajjril, 1861, ■was sent with a detachment to reinforce Fort Pickens, Pensacola harbor. In July, 1861, he joined the Army of the Potomac arid in Septem- ber of that year was assigned to the staff of