Show ROBERT 0 INGERSOLL DEAD the great agnostic Ac succumbs to an a attack of f llort 11 new loric lork july 23 colonel robert 0 ingersoll died at his home 11 aliton alston on hudson 11 near dobbe dobb a I 1 erry I 1 ills ill death was sudden and unexpected and resulted from the heart disease from which he had buffered suffered since 1894 mrs airs ingersoll was the tile only person in the tile room with him when he died death came to him film as he had recently expressed a desire it should he ile often in olden times said he wished to die blois flonly flo vly ly with a full consciousness 0 so o he liht tell those about him how it felt fell recently he expressed a change aud and desired to die painlessly and without warning bobert robert green ingersoll was born in dresden Yeats county august 11 1833 lie ile went west when 12 years old was a short lime hi in an academy in ten bessee also taught t school la in that slate state lie he began the practice of law in southern illinois in was defeated in as democratic candidate for congress became colonel of the llev anth illinois cavalry in a was attorney torne general for illinois in 1866 refused post of minister to germany in 1877 1977 colonel ingersoll Inger soU a notoriety and fame has been acquired through his tits public lectures denying the tile existence of a IL led and the bible an and d the christian religion colonel ingersoll first attracted political notice by his brilliant eulogy of jamea G blaine in the tile iii national convention at cincinnati in 1870 18 in indis his speech nominating mr blaine for the presidency mr inger soil sell referred to his favorite as its the plumed knight a name that attached itself to mr blaine and nod remained with him during his lis remaining years colonel inger In geroU oll practiced law at peoria III for many years but afterwards settled in new ew york |