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he acquired renown as a painter of miniature and life-size portraits. His twu early portraits that brouglJt liini fame were those of Chief-Justice Marshall and Bishop White. In 1»25 he joined the Association of Artists, and on the establisli- ment of the National Academy of Design he was elected its vice-president, which office he held until he I'emoved to Mount Holly, N.J., near Philadelphia, Pa., in 1832. He returned to New York city in 1834. where lie was so pressed with work that he was unable to fill his orders for portraits. In 1844 he accepted a commis- sion from his friends in that city to visit England and paint por- traits of Macaulay, Wordsworth, Chalmers and Lord Cottenham. This consumed one year and gained him a host of friends in England, who offered him flattering inducements to make that country his home. He returned, however, to New York in 1845. He introduced the art of lithography in the United States in 1828, and was one of the early crayon portrait artists. He had two sons, John O'Brien, who became a well- known painter, and Henry (q.v.). His portrait of William Wordsworth is the property of the University of Pennsylvania; his William Penn hangs in Independence Hall, Pliiladelphia, and his William H. Seward, De Witt Clinton and ^lartin Van Buren are in the New York city hall. He also painted from life William Wirt, Nicholas Biddle, Horace Binney, Fitz Green Halleck, John James Audubon, Bishops Moore, White and De Lancey, and many prominent private citizens of New York. Besides his portraits he painted his- torical and genre subjects, including: The Boy- hood of Washington, Rip Van Winkle Awaking from hin Dream, Sterne's Maria, Mumble the Peg, Trout Fishing; and landscapes: Dismal Swamp, Rydal Falls, Englaml, and An October Aftei^ noon. At the time of his death he was commis- sioned by congress to paint one of the panels of the rotunda of the capitol at Washington, and had outlined Daniel Boone in the Woods of Ken- tucky. He died in New York city. Jan. 17, 184G. INMAN, Henry, antlior, was born in New York city. July 30, ls:>,7; son of Henry Inman. N.A. His father was president f>f the National Acailemy of Design, and liis brother. John O'Brien Inman. wa.s also a well-known painter. He was educated in the public .schools of Brooklyn and

went west, where he was an Indian fighter in the company of Col. W, F. Cody ("ButTalo Bill") and in tiie service of the U.S. army in the Indian campaigns of 1857-Cl. He returned home in IbGl and was appointed aide-de-camp on tiie staff of Gen. George Sykes. He was severely wounded before Richmond; was brevetted for gallantry in action and promoted to the rank of major. Dur- ing the great Indian winter campaign of 1868-69 he won promotion to tiie rank of lieutenant-col- onel. He resigned from the army in 1869 and devoted himself to literature. He is the author of: The Old Santa Fe Trail: A Story of a Great Highway (1897); The Ranch on the Oxhide (189S); Tlie Great Salt Lake Trail (with W. F. Cody 1898); Tales of the Trail (1898); A Pioneer frori Kentucky: An Idyl of the Baton Rouge (1898); Tlie Delahoyles: Boy Life on the Old Santa Fe Trail (1899): and compiled Buffalo Jones' Forty Years of Adventure (1899). He died in Topeka, Kan.. Nov. 13. 1899.

INMAN, William, naval officer, was born in Utica, N.Y., in 1797. He entered the navy as midshipman, Jan. 1, 1812, and served on the lakes during the war of 1812. He was promoted lieutenant, April 1, 1818; commander. May 24, 1838, and ca^itain, June 2, 18.j0. He assisted in the cai)ture of a pirate sliip in 1823; served on the Michigan on the lakes. 1844-46; and in 1851 commanded the frigate Susquehanna, of the East India squadron. He commanded the .squadron on the African coast that recaptured and landed at Liberia over 3500 slaves, 1859-61. He was pro- moted commodore and retired on April 4. 1867, and was senior officer of his rank in 1874. He died in Philadelpliia, Pa., Oct 23, 1874.

INNES, Hary, jurist, was born in Caroline count}-, Va., in 1752; eldest son of the Rev. Robert and Catharine (Richards) Innes. His father emigrated from Scotland to Virginia be- fore the middle of the eighteenth century, and his mother was a native of Virginia. He studied law under Hugh Rose, Esq., and practised his profession in Virginia until the beginning of the Revolution. In 1776 he was employed by the committee of public safety in Virginia to super- intend the working of lead mines to supply the patriot army with ammunition; and in 1779 he was appointed a commissioner to determine claims to unpatented lands in the Abingdon dis- trict. He was married in early manhood to Elizabeth, daughter of Col. James and Sarali (Tate) Calloway, of Bedford county, Va. He was justice of the supreme court of Virginia in 1783 and attorney-general for the district of Kentucky 1785-87. He was U.S. district judge for Ken- tucky, 1787-1816. and declined the office of chief justice on the admission of the state in 1792. He favored a separate agreement with Spain as to the