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INGRAHAM


INMAN


withiu three hours the prisoner is not delivered up. I shall tire upon you." By mutual agreement made within the time, Koszta was passed to the sare of the French consul pending an appeal to Washington and Vienna. A few days after the incident the Austrian government released the prisoner on condition that he would return to the United States, which he did. The conduct of Commander Ingraham was approved by the U.S. government, and on Aug. 4, 18.34, congress by joint resolution requested the President to present him with a medal. He was made chief of the bureau of ordnance and lij'drogi'aphy in the navy department in Marcli, 1856, and in 1861, while in command of the Richmond, flagship of the Mediterranean squadron, he resigned his commis-^ion, returned to the United States, and entered the Confederate navy as chief of ord- nance construction and repair. He rose to the rank of commodore. He broke the Fetleral blockade of Charleston, S.C, in 1863, and after the war resided in Charleston. At the time of his death he was the last survivor of those who entered the U.S. navy in 1812. He was married to Harriet, daughter of Henry Laurens, of South Carolina. He died in Charleston, Oct. 16, 1891.

INQ^^AHAn, George Landon, jurist, was born in New York citj', Aug. 1, 1847; son of Judge Dan- iel Phreuix (q.v.) and Mary (Landon) Ingraham. He was graduated from the law school of Colum- bia college, New York, LL.B., 1869, and in May, 1863, was admitted to practice in the supreme court of New York. In November, 1882, he was elected a judge of the superior court of the city of New York, and was assigned to act as a justice of the supreme court, Jan. 1, 1887. In May, 1891, he was appointed a justice of the supreme court to fill the vacancy caused by the deatli of Justice John R. Brady, and was elected for the full term in November, 1891. On Jan. 1, 1896, he was designated as one of the seven original mem- bers of the appellate division of the supreme court for the first judicial department of New York. He was married, Dec. 4, 1873, toGeorgina, daughter of George W. Lent, of New York, and their son, Daniel Phoenix Ingraham, born Oct. 23, 1874. was graduated from Harvard in 1898.

INQRAHAM, John Phillips Thurston, clergy- man, was born in Hallo well, Maine, Aug. 29, 1817; son of James Milk and Elizabeth (Thurston) Ingraham; grandson of Joseph Holt Ingraham, a prominent citizen and benefactor of Portland, Maine, and a younger brotlier of Joseph Holt Ingraham, clergyman and educator. His first ancestor in America was Edward Ingraham, who settled in York, Maine, in 1600. John P. T. Ingraham visited St. Louis. Mo., in early man- hood, where, at Kemper college, he finished his classical studies. Thence he removed to Wiscon-


sin, and studied theology at Nashotah seminary, where he was graduated in 1847, and ordained deacon and priest the same year. He was rector of St. James' church, Milwaukee, Wis., 1847-61; employed by the U.S. sanitary commission at Nashville, Tenn., 1861-64; rector of Christ church, Indianapolis, Ind., 1864-68; of St. John's church, St. Louis, Mo., 1868-81, and in 1881 be- came rector of Grace church, St. Louis. He re- ceived the honorary degree of S.T.D. from Racine college in 1875.

INGRAHAM, Joseph Holt, author, was born in Portland, Maine, Jan. 2."). 1809; son of James Milk and Elizabeth (Thursi<;ii) Ingraham; grand- son of Joseph Holt Ingraham, and a descendant of Edward Ingraham, a descendant of Sir Arthur Ingraham, knight, in the reign of James I. When quite a youth he enlisted as a sailor in one of his grandfather's ships sailing between New England and the West Indies, and when stopping in South America he took part in a local revolu- tion. He returned to the United States, where he finished his academic and collegiate education at Bowdoin college, Maine, and became professor of languages in Jefferson college. Miss. He con- tributed stories of adventure to the local papers before he w^as twenty, and published his first book, "The Southwest, by a Yankee," in 1835, following it by "Lafayette, or the Pirate of the Gulf," and other books of adventure that had an immense sale for the time. He was married in 1837 to Mary E. Brookes, daughter of a wealthy Mississippi planter, and granddaughter of Col. William Ivey, of Mississippi. He entered the ministry of the Protestant Eisiscopal church in 1855 at Nashville, Tenn., and conducted St. Thomas' hall, a school for boys, at Holly Springs, Miss., and was rector of Christ church there. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the University of Mississippi in 1859. He is the author of: The Prince of the House of David; or. Three Years in the Holy City (1855); The Pillar of Fire; or, Israelin Bondage (1859); The TJirone of David, from the Consecration of the Shepherd of Bethlehem to the Rebellion of Prince Absalom (1860). He died at Holly Springs, Nov. 18, 1860.

INMAN, Henry, painter, was born in Utica, N.Y., Oct. 20, 1801. His parents were natives of England, and his older brother, William, 1797- 1874, was a commodore in the U.S. navy and senior oflBcer of his rank at the time of his death, and his younger brother, John, 180.5-1850. was a well-known journalist. Henry was appointed a cadet to the U.S. Military academy, and was about to enter the academy in 1816, when he visited the studio of John Wesley Jarvis, and that painter induced him to study the art. After a seven years' apprenticeship he had reached his majority, and set up a studio of his own, in which