ROBERT

See also:

• GREEN, A
• GREEN, ALEXANDER HENRY (1832—1896)
• GREEN, DUFF (1791—1875)
• GREEN, JOHN RICHARD (1837—1883)
• GREEN, MATTHEW (1696-1737)
• GREEN, THOMAS HILL (1836-1882)
• GREEN, VALENTINE (1739–1813)
• GREEN, WILLIAM HENRY (.1825–1900)

GREEN

See also:

• INGERSOLL
• ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833—1899)

INGERSOLL (1833—1899)  , American lawyer and lecturer, was born in Dresden, New York, on the 11th of August 1833 . His father was a Congregational minister, who removed to Wisconsin in 1843 and to Illinois in 1845 . Robert, who had received a good common-school education, was admitted to the bar in 1854, and practised law with success in Illinois . Late in 1861, during the Civil War, he organized a cavalry regiment, of which he was colonel, until captured at Lexington, Tennessee, on the 18th of December 1862, by the Confederate cavalry under General N . B . Forrest . He was paroled, waited in vain to be exchanged, and in June 1863 resigned from the service . He was attorney-general of Illinois in 1867—1869, and in 1876 his speech in the Republican National Convention, naming James G . Blaine for the Presidential candidate, won him a national reputation as a public speaker . As a lawyer he distinguished himself particularly as counsel for the defendants in the " Star-Route Fraud " trials . He was most widely known, however, for his public lectures attacking the Bible, and his anti-Christian views were an obstacle to his political advancement . Ingersoll was an eloquent rhetorician rather than a logical reasoner .

He died at Dobbs

Ferry, N.Y., on the 21st of July 1899 . His principal lectures and speeches were published under the titles: The Gods and Other Lectures (1876); Some Mistakes of Moses (1879); Prose Poems (1884); Great Speeches (1887) . His lectures, entitled " The Bible," " Ghosts," and " Foundations of Faith," attracted particular attention . His complete works were published in 12 vols. in New York in 1900 .