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 INGHAM

INGLIS

He removed to Washington, D.C., in 1878, and in 1882 he was counsel for Senator Dorsey, ac- cused of complicity in the Star-Route frauds. He removed to New York city in 1885. Colonel Ingereoll was especially well known as a lec- turer, and for many years before his death his income from this source alone is estimated to have been about 8100,000 annually, from which he spent generous sums in charity. He was an avowed agnostic, and his lectures, while bril- liant, were strongly iconoclastic. His last years were devoted almost entirely to speaking against popular religious beliefs, liis lecture subjects in- cluding : The Bible, Voltaire, Superstition, The Devil, Libert]), and What Shall We Do to be Saved ? His published works include : Tlie Gods <1878) ; Ghosts (1879) ; Soine Mistakes of 3Ioses (1879); Lectures Complete (1883); Prose Poems and Selections (1884), and numerous pamphlets and tracts. He died at the home of his son-in- law, at Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., July 21, 1899.

INGHAM, Charles Cromwell, artist, was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1797. He studied art at the academy in Dublin, and before he was twenty years old he painted '' Death of Cleopatra,*' for which he obtained a prize. In 1817 he settled in New York city, where lie took a front rank among artists. He was one of the founders of the National Academy of Design in that city, and was its vice-president, 1845-50. He also assisted in the organization of the original New York Sketch club. His paintings were much admired, and his subjects included : The White Plume, The Laughing Girl, Day Dreams and The Floicer Girl. He painted porti-aits of many of the fam- ous society beauties of his time and of men of prominence, including Lafayette, DeWitt Clin- ton and Gulian C. Verplanck. He died in New York city, Dec. 10, 1863,

INQHAfl, Samuel, representative, was born in Hebron, Conn., Sept. 5, 1793. He attended scliool in Vermont, was admitted to the bar in Connecticut in 1815, and opened an office in Say- brook in 1817. He was a representative in the state legislature ; served as speaker through three sessions ; was state's attorney for Middle- sex county, 1827-35, and again in 1843-44 ; pro- bate judge, 1829-33 ; state agent to prosecute claims against the United States, 1837 ; represen- tative in the 24th and 25th congresses, 1835-39 ; judge of the county court, 1849-53 ; unsuccessful candidate before the state legislature for U.S. senator in 1854, and was commissioner of customs, 1857-61. He died in Essex, Conn., Nov. 10, 1881.

INGHAM, Samuel Delucenna, cabinet officer, was born near New Hope, Bucks county. Pa., Sept. 16, 1779 ; son of Dr. Jonathan and Ann (Welding) Ingham; grandson of Jonas Ingham, and a descendant of Jonas, who came from York-

shire, England, about 1723 and settled on the farm in Bucks county. Pa., which remained in the possession of the family till 1849. He was apprenticed to a paper maker on the Penny- pack, near Philadelphia, and later established a paper mill on his father's farm. He was a representative in the Pennsylvania legisla^ ture for three years ; secretary of the common- wealth ; prothonotary of one of the state courts, and an Anti-Federalist representative from Pennsylvania in the 13th and 14th congresses, 1813-18, and again in the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th congresses, 1821-29. He was prom- inent in the councils of his party ; opposed the congressional caucus, and in 1824 was falsely chai'ged with writing the celebrated Kremer let- ter, claiming that a bargain had been made be- tween Adams and Clay by which Clay's votes were to be cast for Adams, and Clay was to become secretary of state. Upon the accession of General Jackson to the Presidency in 1829, Representative Ingham was appointed secretary of the U.S. treasury in his cabinet, which office he resigned, April 19, 1831, and he retired to pri- vate life, becoming interested in developing the anthracite coal region of Peunsjlvania. He was married, first to Rebecca Dood, of Bloom field, N.J., and secondly, to Deborah Kay, daughter of Clement Hall, of Salem, N.J., and their son, William A. Ingham, resided in Philadelphia in 1900. He died in Trenton, N.J., June 5, 1860.

INGLIS, Charles, first colonial bishop of the Church of England in America, was born in Ire- land in 1734. He immigrated to America upon reaching manhood and conducted a free school at Lancaster, Pa., which he gave tip in 1759, having, in December, 1758, been licensed by the Bishop of London and appointed missionary by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, and was stationed at Dover, Del., 1759-65. He was assistant minister of Trinity church, New York city, 1765-76. In 1775 the publication of his pamphlet replying to Paine's "Common Sense," offended the " Sous of Libert}-,'" and they seized and burned the edition. Washington re- quested him to omit the prayers for the king and royal family as contained in the " Book of Com- mon Prayer," which he refused to do. When the Declaration of Independence was signed he closed his church, and in August, 1776. retired to Flushing, Long Island, N. Y., which place was in possession of the British. When Washington's army retreated from New York, he reopened Trinity church as its rector, 1777, and continued the service till the city was evacuated by the British army in 1783. He then went to Halifax, N.S., and in 1787 visited England, where he was consecrated the first bishop of Nova Scotia, with jurisdiction over the North American provinces,