Ingersoll, ROBERT GREEN,

Ingersoll, ROBERT GREEN, was born at Dresden, New York, 11th August 1833, the son of a Congregational minister of very broad views. With his brother he opened a law-office at Shawneetown, Illinois, but removed in 1857 to Peoria. In 1862–65 he was colonel of a Federal cavalry regiment; in 1866 he was appointed state attorney-general. He was a successful lawyer, a well-known Republican campaign orator, and attracted more notice than he deserved by his lectures directed against the Christian religion, and by many pamphlets and books published with the same object. He died 21st July 1899.