Edward_Ingersoll

Edward Ingersoll

Edward Ingersoll

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Edward Ingersoll (2 April 1817, Philadelphia[1] - 19 February 1893 Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[2]) was a United States author.

Biography

He was the son of Mary Wilcocks[2] and politician and writer Charles Jared Ingersoll.[1] He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1835,[1] and was admitted to the bar in 1838, but he never established a legal practice.[2] During the American Civil War, his sympathies were with the South.[2]

Works

  • History and Law of Habeas Corpus and Grand Juries (Philadelphia, 1849)
  • Personal Liberty and Martial Law (1862)

He edited:

  • Hale, Pleas of the Crown
  • Addison on Contracts
  • Saunders on Uses and Trusts

References

  1. [1]
    Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1892). "Ingersoll, Jared" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
  2. [2]
    H. W. Schoenberger (1932). "Ingersoll, Edward". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.


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