Charles Jared INGERSOLL

Male 1782 - 1862  (79 years)


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  • Name Charles Jared INGERSOLL  [1
    Birth 03 Oct 1782  Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Death 14 May 1862  Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Notes 
    • "A Genealogy of the Ingersoll Family" - Charles Jared received a liberal education; studied law and was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia. He then traveled in Europe and was attached to the U.S. Embassy in France.
      He was afterward elected to Congress as a Democrat, serving from 1813 till 1815, when he became U.S. District Attorney, and held that office until he was removed by Gen. Jackson in 1829. Soon afterward he served in the legislature. He was a member of the Canal and International.......Convention there in 1825 and also of the Reform Convention there in 1837, and in Philadelphia in 1838. In 1837 he was appointed secretary of legation to Prussia. He served again in Congress from 1841 till 1847, as chairman of the committee on foreign affairs, and distinguished himself as a Democratic leader. In 1847 he was nominated by President Polk, U.S. Minister to France, but was rejected by the Senate.
      He was authro of "Chimara," a poem published in the "Portfolio" (1800); "Edwy and Elgira," a tragedy (Philadelphia, 1801); "Inchiquin, the Jesuit's Letters on american Literature and Polities" (New York, 1810); "Julian," a dramatic poem (1831); and a Historical Sketch of the Second War between the U.S. and Great Britian (4 vols., Phils., 1845-52). Joseph Bonaparte furnished him much material for the work. He also published numerous anonymous contributions to the "Democratic Press" of Philadelphia and to the "National Intelligencer" of Washington, on the controversies with England before the War of 1812; several "speeches" concerning that war (1813-15); a discourse before the American philosophical society on the "Influence of America on the Mind", which was republished in england and France (1823); a translation of a French work on the Freedom of navigation in the "American Law Journal" of 1829, and many other literary and political discourses. (Life of Charles Jared Ingersoll, by Wm. Meigs, J.B. Lippincott & Co.)
    Person ID I64513  Main Tree

    Father Jared INGERSOLL,   b. 24 Oct 1749, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Oct 1822, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years) 
    Relationship Natural 
    Mother Elizabeth PELLET 
    Relationship Natural 
    Marriage 06 Dec 1781  [1
    Family ID F26020  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary WILCOCKS,   b. 02 Jan 1784   d. 08 Aug 1862 (Age 78 years) 
    Marriage 18 Oct 1804  [1
    Children 
     1. Charles INGERSOLL,   b. 08 Dec 1805, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Aug 1882, At Sea Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)  [Natural]
     2. John INGERSOLL,   b. 02 May 1811, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 08 Sep 1859, Mississippi, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years)  [Natural]
     3. Samuel INGERSOLL,   b. 26 Oct 1824, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Feb 1827, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 2 years)  [Natural]
     4. Edward INGERSOLL,   b. 02 Apr 1817, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Feb 1893, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)  [Natural]
     5. Benjamin Wilcocks INGERSOLL,   b. 11 Jan 1813, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Jan 1859, Rome, Italy Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 46 years)  [Natural]
     6. Ann Wilcocks INGERSOLL,   b. 08 Jan 1822, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Dec 1856 (Age 34 years)  [Natural]
     7. Elizabeth INGERSOLL,   b. 01 Apr 1815, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 May 1872 (Age 57 years)  [Birth]
     8. Alexander Wilcocks INGERSOLL,   b. 12 Aug 1807, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1889, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)  [Natural]
     9. Harry INGERSOLL,   b. 31 Jul 1809, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 08 Aug 1886, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years)  [Natural]
    Family ID F26021  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S04335] A Genealogy of The Ingersoll Family in America 1629-1925 by Lillian Drake Avery.
      Comprising Descendants of Richard Ingersoll of Salem, Mass, John Ingersoll of Westfield, Mass., and John Ingersoll of Huntington, Long Island.