Edward Ingersoll Explained

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

Notes and References

1. Ingersoll, Jared. 1892.
2. Ingersoll, Edward. 1932. H. W. Schoenberger.