Edward Ingersoll

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

Biography

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

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 2 3 Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1892). "Ingersoll, Jared" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
1 2 3 4 H. W. Schoenberger (1932). "Ingersoll, Edward". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

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[acab-1] 1 2 3 Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1892). "Ingersoll, Jared" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.

[dab-2] 1 2 3 4 H. W. Schoenberger (1932). "Ingersoll, Edward". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

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