The New Student's Reference Work/Ingersoll, Robert G.

In′gersoll, Robert G., a prominent lawyer, a politician, and a sceptical writer and lecturer on religious topics, was born in New York in 1833, and died in 1899. His oration in favor of J. G. Blaine at the Republican convention of 1876 showed him to be a great orator, and lecturing thenceforth became his occupation. His works include The Gods; Ghosts; Some Mistakes of Moses; What Shall I do to be Saved? Great Speeches; and Prose Poems.