Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-05-23
All About Bob ImgcrsoII.

A rccen: biographcr Of Robert Ingersoll
says that lie is the son Of Il Congregational
minister. was born in Dresden. Il small
town in Northern New York. and is forty
four years old. "Ic was baptised when
he was three years old in Il theater in New
York ci'y. His father was then preaching
in the city and in this theater. his church
having been destroyed by the great fire.
His father. it seems, inclined to liberalism.
and his strifes and the annOyances he was
subjected TO from the narrow belief Of his
Hooks early embittered the precociOus
youth. and filed him with the utmost ha-
tired OF the gloomy spirit of Calyinism.
The father died in 1859, but when Robert
uttered that famons lecture on ..Heretics
and iiercsics." and in which occurs that
graphic picture of JOHN Calvin. he said.
when he returned to his home. Father.
Eve paid back another of the insults they
heaped upon YOU. He received only Il
common school education. When Robert
was ten years old they came West. Robert |
was a precocious boy. lie was a great
raedcr. and his flvorite author was Robert |
Burns. He had committed the works OF
that poci to memory. and it is probable
that he first imbibed that glowing. fiery
hate for tyranny and contempt for sham |
of every sort that form such an effective
part of his character. When Robert was |
still under are he had studied law and been
admitted to the bar. In 1850 Robert was
nominated for Congress against William
Kellogg. lie conducted his part of the
campaign rs if it were a huge frolic. and
yet on the stump lie displayed qualities
that astonshed alike bis friends and enc
mie.. He tore Judge keliogg's arguments
in pieces. worsted him in every debate.
and out-argued him. Runnin"
on the Democratic ticket, he went far be-
yond his opponent in denouncing slavery.
and solemnly avowed that, ..iatl,er than
interfere between any human being in his
efforts to secure his liberty. would be con-
iemned to be chained in the lowest depths
of hell" Bob WAS beaten. and il was the
last time he ever ran foT an Office.
In 1862 he went to war rs colonel of the
Eleventh Illinois Cavalry. In 1866 he was
appointed Att'y-General of the State by
Governor Oglesby. Since then he has been
in the practice Of his profession in
which he has been extraordinarily success
ul, until the Cincinnati convention drew
him out, and he electrified the county by
lis nomination OF Blaine. In 1862 lie mar
led Miss Eva Parker. the daughter of a
ariEer of Groveland. Tazewell county,
lis, a rare woman in any age. An alice
iomite. tender. true-hearted and loving
Woman. she transformed the reckless,
;areless. needless genius into a great-soul-
ID. strone-brained, versatile and pure
minded man. Two daughters are the re-
salt of this union. Few households equal :
his in strong but tender affections, mani
ss,ed simply and naturally, without afiec-
alton and without concealment. When
ne goes on any long journey his family al
Ways accompany him. Together they
vent TO Europe: together shey made the
in Maine and New York, Nor
hers the masculine intellect that partakes
II all his triumphs and drives him forward 4
'ecause she is ambitious. Dress and soci-
~ and place and position are things she !
arcs as little tor as lie. In intellect sine
Doesn't strive to he his peer, but in all
vomanly qualities, In devotion TO him, In