INGLIS
INGRAUAM
serving 17S7-1816. He was appointed one of the
governors of King's college (Columbia) in 1770
and retired in 1777. He received the honorary
degree of A.M. from King's college in 17C7, and
that of S.T.D. elsewhere. He published: Essay
on Infant Baptism ; A Vindication of the Bishop
of Lhindaff's Sermon and two editions of his reply
to Paine's " Common Sense." His son John was
also bishop of Nova Scotia and a member of the
council of 1825, and John's son, Sir Jolin Eardley
Wilmot, was a major-general by brevet in the
British army. Bishop Inglis died in Halifax,
X.S.. Feb. -21. 1S16.
INQLIS, David, clergyman, was born in Green- law, Scotland, June 8, 1825. He was graduated at the University of Edinburgh in arts in 1841 and in theology in 1845. He was licensed to preach and in 184G emigrated to America. He held pas- torates in Dutch Reformed churches in New York city, Bedford, N.Y., Montreal, 1853-54, and Ham- ilton, Canada, 1854-71. He was professor of systematic theology in Knox college, Toronto, 1871-72, and pastor of the Brooklyn Heights Re- formed church, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1872-77. He was a delegate of the Reformed church to the Presby- terian council at Edinburgh in 1877. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Olivet in 1872, and that of LL.D. from Rutgers in 1874. His chief book was Systematic Theology in its Re- lation to Modern Thought (1876). He prepared a course of Vedder Lectures, which he did not live to deliver. He died in Brooklyn, N.Y., Dec. 15, 1877.
INQLIS, John Auchincloss, jurist, was born in Baltimore, Md., Aug. 26, 1813; son of the Rev. James Inglis. He was graduated at Dickinson in 1829, studied law and practised in Cheraw, S.C., and subsequently in the state capital. He be- came judge of the court of common pleas and general sessions ; was raised to the bench of the supreme court of appeals and became one of the four chancellors of the state. He presided over the secession convention of South Carolina in 1860 and drafteil the ordinance adopted, Dec. 20, 1860. His l)ou.se and library were burned in the destruc- tion of Columbia by Sliermans army, Feb. 17, 1805. He practised law in Baltimore, Md., 1868- 74 ; was professor in the law department of the University of Maryland, and in 1874 was ai>- pointed judge of the orphans' court and elected to the office in 1875. The board of trade of Balti- more made him a judge of the new court of arbi- tration in 1878. He was a ruling elder in the churcli of which his father had been pastor, 1802- 20. lie <\U-l in Baltimore, Md., Aug. 26, 1878.
IiNGRAHAfl, Daniel Phoenix, jurist, was born in New York city, April 22, 1800 ; son of Nathaniel Gibbs and ElizaV)eth (Phoenix) Ingraham ; grand- son of John Ingraham and of Daniel Plujenix ; and a descendant of John Ingraham, who resided in
Newport, R.I., about 1700. lie graduated from
Columbia college in 1817 ; studied law in the
office of Richard Riker, recorder of the city of
New York, 1817-21, and was admitted to the bar
in the latter year. He was assistant alderman of
the city of New York in 1835, and alderman, 1836-
38. He was appointed by Governor Marcy judge
of the court of common pleas of the city of New
York in 1838 to fdl the vacancy caused by the
death of Judge John T. Irving ; was re-appointed
in 1843, and in 1846, the position having become
elective, he was returned to the office by popular
vote. He was re-elected in 1851, and was first
judge of the court, 1853-57. In November, 1857,
he was elected a justice of the supreme court of
the state of New York, and was re-elected in 1865.
He was the first presiding justice of the supreme
court of the first department, 1870-74, when,
being over seventy years of age, he was not elig-
ible for re-election. He devoted much of his
leisure time to historical and geographical re-
search. He was a member of the New York
Historical society and of the American Geograph-
ical society and for many years one of the-
elders of the Collegiate Reformed church of New
York city. He was married, Jan. 25, 1838, to
Mary Hart, daughter of George Landon. of Guil-
ford, Conn. Judge Ingraham received the degree
of LL.D. from Rutgers, 1859, and from Columbia,
1860. He died in New York city, Dec. 12, 1881.
INGRAHAM, Duncan Nathaniel, naA-al officer, was born in Charleston, S.C, Dec. 6, 1802 ; son of Nathaniel Ingraham, who served on the Bon Homme Richard under John Paul Jones in the engagement with the Serapis ; and nephew of Lieut. Joseph Ingraham, U.S. N., lost at sea in the Picker- ing. He entered the U.S. navy as midshipman in June, 1812;, was promoted- lieutenant, April 1, 1818; com- U.S.S. ST. LOUlS
mander, May 24, 1828, and captain, Sept. 14, 1855. He was assigned to the command of the U.S. sloop of war St. Louis in 1852, and ordered to the Mediterranean. While in the harbor of Smyrna, which was at this time the anchorage of five well-armed Austrian war vessels, he demanded the release from the Austrian war ship Hussar of an avowed American citizen, one ^lartin Koszta, a native of Hungary, held a political prisoner by the Austrian government. When the demand was refused. Commander Ingraham ranged his ship alongside the Hussar, called his men to fpiarters, shotted his guns, and eent word: "If
