JOHN VANDENHEUVEL INGERSOLL, the eldest child of Ralph I. Ingersoll (Yale 1808) and Margaret C. E. (VandenHeuvel) Ingersoll, of New Haven, was born on May 7, 1815. He studied law, and established himself in Ravenna, Portage County, Ohio, but was diverted from the practice of his profession by serving for several years as secretary to an Indian Commission, and by editing a political paper. In October, 1840, he was appointed Register of the Land Office at Mineral Point, Wisconsin, but retained the position for less than a year. He then returned to his editorial work, but in 1845 went to Sandusky to resume law practice. At the beginning of June, 1846, he went to Scott's Point, on Lake Erie, beyond Sandusky Bay, on a fishing excursion, where he was drowned on June 5, in his 32d year. ******************** Biographical Notices of Graduates of Yale College, Including Those Graduated in Classes Later Than 1815, who are Not Commemorated in the Annual Obituary Records – Franklin Bowditch Dexter ******************** https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=ePk-AAAAYAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA253
JOHN VANDENHEUVEL INGERSOLL, the eldest child of Ralph I. Ingersoll (Yale 1808) and Margaret C. E. (VandenHeuvel) Ingersoll, of New Haven, was born on May 7, 1815. He studied law, and established himself in Ravenna, Portage County, Ohio, but was diverted from the practice of his profession by serving for several years as secretary to an Indian Commission, and by editing a political paper. In October, 1840, he was appointed Register of the Land Office at Mineral Point, Wisconsin, but retained the position for less than a year. He then returned to his editorial work, but in 1845 went to Sandusky to resume law practice. At the beginning of June, 1846, he went to Scott's Point, on Lake Erie, beyond Sandusky Bay, on a fishing excursion, where he was drowned on June 5, in his 32d year. ******************** Biographical Notices of Graduates of Yale College, Including Those Graduated in Classes Later Than 1815, who are Not Commemorated in the Annual Obituary Records – Franklin Bowditch Dexter ******************** https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=ePk-AAAAYAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA253
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