Ingersoll
Ingersoll names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Ingersoll ROBERT GREEN, an American lawyer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ROBERT GREEN, an American lawyer; born in Dresden, N. 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, 1899. a sect religious
Ingersoll ERNEST, an American naturalist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ERNEST, an American naturalist; born in Monroe, Mich., March 13, 1852; was educated at Oberlin College and the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology; employed on the Hayden Survey and the United States Fish Commission; later was engaged as a journalist in Montreal. His publications include "Oyster Industries"; "Friends Worth Knowing"; "Country Cousins"; "Knocking 'Round the Rockies"; "Crest of the Continent"; "Canadian Guide- Book"; "The Book of the Ocean" "Nature's Calendar" (1900), "Life of Mammals" (1906), etc.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's factual sketch of Robert Green Ingersoll in 1921 still stands, including its shrewd judgment that had he not spoken out as an agnostic "he would doubtless have been honored with high offices." What has moved is his standing: the packed lecture halls that made him one of the best-paid speakers in America faded from memory within a generation, and he is now studied mainly by historians of American freethought, who revived interest in him from the 1990s onward under the nickname "the Great Agnostic." His Dresden, N.Y. birthplace is preserved as a small museum. The entry on Ernest Ingersoll was written while he was still alive and working; he went on publishing popular natural history for years afterward, notably a book on dragon lore in 1928.
Written for this edition, 2026.