The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-22
ROBERTO. INGERSOLL DEAD
FAMOUS AGNOSTiC SUCCUMBS 10
HE1RT DTSEISE


Col. Robert G.. lngcrsoll diod Yesterday at
noon. without m instant's warning. sitting in
Il chair of his bedroom at his summer home
among the highlands of the Hudson. at Dobhs
Ferry. He passed away smiling. but mute. IL
was not the way nc wanted t. die. lIc had for
long in his mind something he desired to say
before death IL was never said. Another de-
sire was fulfilled at his end. however: he
retained control Of his faculties until death.
His wife was in the room when he died. she
had Just spoken 20 him. He did rot answer.
save with the smile. His last words were spo',"n
Il few minutes before. when he had left lhn
vcrnnda. where mcmhcrs OF tho household
were sitting. with the rcnutk TINT he WON'T
return In few minutes and jim IN gam" IF
billiards. Heart disease was the cause VI his
death
Cot Ingcrsoll had been At his highland
hO,uc which he lad named Nalstrin in horror
Of his son-in-a law. since Wednesday evening.
He was in the ritv on Wwlnrs lay ia his usual
good spirits. On his way down that morning
he met at the Dohbs Ferry station a fricId IT
his own tim" Of lie. whom he hnhitualv ALL
dressed IA Young man. and hailed him in i've
familiar. CHEEKY way. Thursday be spent
home. not feeling quite up to tn" marx. nHL
far from III. During Thursday night he WIS
taken sick. The attack was supposed to TO
indigestion
When some on" mmisCra'cG with him yra-
t"rday morning he remarked that lie never
minded being sick at III" stomach He was
about usual in thu morning. Hnd in i
ncvcr-railing good humor. although he Id n"G
feel very sprighly He talked with the family.
which included. besides Mrs. InErr-o and
Miss MCude lnCrrsOll, their daughter. Mr. and
Mrs Wa'stc'n H. Brown. Mr.. and Mrs clinton
G. Farrell and Mrs. Il. W. Parker. Mr.. Brown
is the Co|oncI's daughter Mrs Farrell il Mrs.
Ing"rsoil's sister and Mrs Parker is Mrs.
InGcrsoIl's mother. Mr.. Farrell was Col.
lngprSOlls secretary
Aside from the effects OF his sickness in the
night the Colonel suffered somewhat yrster-
day morning from trouble that had been re-
current during the last two years and had
como upon him with greater frequency during
the last year II was Il slight trouble OF the
heart which had made it almost impossible for
him to take any active exercise 1t did not af-
feet his voice or interfere with his standing
for two hours on the platform. but soon as
he became physically active the pain came in
his chest and with it tho feeling Of depression.
| This had happened so often that under the adj
| vice Of his physician the Colonel carried about
| with him supply Of nitro-glycerine tablets for
| us" when the attacks came on. In the middle
| Of the morning yesterday the Colonel
telephoned TO his physician, DR.. A. Alexander
Smith Of Greenwich. Conn, asking when the
doctor would be at his office in this city. The
| doctor said ii the Colonel wasn't well he would
| come over and him at Wastein Cot.
Ingcrsoll said he wasn't i'll. but didn't feel Just
right He told what had happened in the night.
| and said that he would go over to Greenwich
| and see the doctor to-day. DIR. Smith agreed
| to this. and told the Colonel that he might take
one OF the nitro glyccrine tablets every fifteen
| minutes up TO twelve Of them. and that doubt
| less he would be relieved The Colonel had
| taken only two or three Of them before the
| sposm cam" which took him off.
He was seated on the piazza with Mr.. Brown
| and Mr.. Farrell about II 80 o'clock. and the
conversation tur.cd to three games OF billiards
which the Colonel and his son-n-Iaw had
played tho evening before A few minutes later
| the Colonel went into the house. promising to
| return in n short time. He entered his bed
room. where Mrs lngersoIl was. and seated
How do you feel now. rara?" Mrs. Inger-
soil said 10 him.
| thought he was ynwnngi Oh! Your tongue
s,hhadly coated, she said
about to reply lie rested his head upon tho
back Of the chair. smiling yet. Col. lnGersoII
When he did not answer Mrs; Ingersoll called
| I'll" other members OF the family. They sought
for f ali Hc doctors who ca"a be- fey
! also sent for n cylinder OF oxygen: In the
meantime th"y tried to induce artiiGiaI resEi-
Salisbury, OF this city, n sum mer nGUhbor, and
| Drs HaSbrOuck and hudson 81 DObbs Ferry
| came quickly to the house. They all agreed
that the ColoncI's death was caused by angina
p"ctoris. tho disease that had affected his
| heart for the past two years.
Tho very kindest way death could come"
said, a friend who called in the afternoon, ~,
Not the way h" wanted to CO." said Mr.,
| Farrell. not since he was young man had
he believed that sudden death was the prefer;
its approach. he hoprd to note his sensations
or emotions: h" wanted to know what it WIS.
| and he had some things he desired to say, lie
| OFTEN tod me that he wanted To say something
But il he might not have, opportunity to
wanted to go of before his faculties should be-
come dimmed. He quoted frequently:
After my flame lacks oil. to be the snun
| or younger spirits.
pet"y mnd6ne hy lis " GcatS they sat BY G Tie
| body all day. No arrangements for the funeral
% "rs all Tss 'o1" ill., "d in
the West about n year ago A niece lives at
Erie Ri ind so, nsrhgw is n
he had not attended the Colonel fortwo months
unit! tho Colonel tehI"phonei him yesterday
Col Ingerso OF It, they, often SPOKE Of it and
Would be- ca HHd "a Sn@ tme sHidany TRs
DoGtor said that FIVE years pR% o Thi" on lee;
paralysis and that he had never fully recovered
In the rank OF militant aRnosticism in Amer
Robert q. IngcrsolI. To such an extent did he
| ovcrshadow all OF his fellow inndels that his
name was synonym for the iconoclastic doc
trines which he upheld. and 'Ing"rsollism "
| was for years n pet vile Of the evil one for the
attacking "oqu"ncc OF the country rplnlts;
| Brilliant as h" was as m orator and political
speaker, keen and profound as n lawyer, and
popular as n lecturer. II is lngersoli the aRnos-
tic who is known from sea TO sea over all this
continent and in many nations Of Europe az
we'll; His widespread influence, ia the, more re-
markable in that, in an age whose IDEAS are
propAgatod by, the printing. press. he never
wrote book. though most Of his lectures were
| printed. In this sense h" was the last Of the
great orators, dcncnding as he did upon ora
tory alone.
Robert Green Ingcrsoll was born in Dresden.
| y. Y. on Aug II. 1883 OF churchy parentaRe.
| his father being n Congregational minister.
Be"ause nf his refusal to ACCEPT literally some
ofthe Church ~tcn"ts InGcrsulI, senior was ire"
| Uucntly in hot water with his fellow clergynI"n.
and from this Il happened hat young Robert
was baptized in "A theatre whore his father was
holding services hi is church having been taken
| away from him In young lnRcrsolIs carly
religious education the tormCntS OF he'll played
u arg" part ana reused spirit Of antagpnsm
in the lad a. soon A. h" began to b" oldcuough
10 think, According 90 Cot lng"rsulI own