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Ingersoll (ROBERT GREEN an American)

ROBERT GREEN, an American lawyer; born in Dresden, N.

INGHAMITES Y., Aug. 11, 1833; ; was admitted to the bar in 1854; soon became distinguished in the courts and in Democratic politics as an orator; recruited the 11th Illinois Cavalry in 1862, and entered the army as its colonel. On Nov. 28, 1862, while trying with a force of 600 men to intercept a Confederate raiding body he was captured by a force of 10,000 men, but was soon paroled and given command of a camp in St. Louis. He soon afterward resigned. After the war he became a Republican; was made attorney-general of Illinois in 1866; was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1876 and there nominated for president, ROBERT G. INGERSOLL

James G. Blaine, whom he termed "the plumed knight." He was prominent in politics for several years, and had he not given strong expression to his views as an agnostic he would doubtless have been honored with high offices. He settled in New York city in 1882 and practiced law there till his death. His most famous lectures include "Some Mistakes of Moses"; "The Family"; "The Liberty of Man, Woman, and Child"; "The Gods"; and "Ghosts." His publications include "Lectures Complete"; "Prose, Poems and Selections"; and "Great Speeches." He died in Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., July 21, a religious INGHAMITES, founded by Benjamin Ingham, one of the INGHAMITES, a religious sect early Methodists. Separating from his INGRESS original nal connection, he joined the United Brethren, but soon after founded a sect the doctrines of which were a modification of those of the Glassites and the Sandemanians.