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