The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-08-17
FUNERAL
OfJOhu ingalls, Will Take Place
at AtchlsOn sunday

EAST LAS VEGAS, N. NJ, AUGUST 16.
The remains OF ex-senator John j. In
gals, who died this morning at the Mon
tezuma hotel, were started for Atchison,
Kansas, his late home, this afternoon,
accompanied by Mrs. ingalls, and her
youngest son. Sheffield. The body will
In accordance with a special request
Of Senator ingalls,, every feature OF the
funeral will be simple. The body will
be taken from the Ingalls, residence to
Trinity church Sunday afternoon, where
Episcopal service will be read by Bish-
op Milspaug. The interment at Mount
Vernon will be private. No funeral SER
mon will be preached. and there Will
be nothing in the nature of a public dem
onstration.
The direct cause OF death was bronchit-
is. Senator ingalls, had been growing
weaker gradually for some time from in
ability to assimilate his food, and there
were also heart complications. He had
been able to sit up last evening, howe
ever, and his condition then was con-
sidered slightly better. He had made all
plans to leave for AtchisOn, where he had
expressed a wish to die, and it was in
tended to start not later than Saturday
next.
OF the senator's last hours, Sheffield
Ingalls, said today:
Father was taken SUDDENLY worse a
little after nine o'clock last evening. The
medical director Of the hotel informed
us that my father was not likely to live
until morning. l left his side at midnight
and retired to my room for a short rest.
My mother, whom he desired not to
leave his side, came to my door about
Q o'clOolr +bic morning and told me that
the end was near. Soon after he lost
consciousness and passed peacefully
away. He talked to us up to a half hour
before he died and repeated the Lords
prayer with my mother some time be-
fore he lost Consciousness. His con-
duct al through his illness has been one
of great fortitude
He was anxious for the end to come
as he has felt for the last six months
that his life work and career of useful
ness was over"
John ]. ingalls, was born in Middle
ton, Massachusetts,, December %, 1888, and
is therefore sixty-seven years OLD. He
was graduated from Williams college In
1855, studied law and was admitted to the
bar in 1857.
He came to Kansas in october 1858,
and first made his home in the new town
of Sumner, started a few miles south OF
Atchison. The town proved a failure
town shares in a few years being OBJ
tanned without money and without
nrice. and would not command $40 a doz-
en-" according to one of the settlers.
In the summer of 1859, Mr.. ingalls, was
elected delegate from Atchison county to
the Wyandotte constitutional convention
being at that time in his twenty-sixth
wear. and he was the recognized schclar
of the convention.
In 1860. Mr.. ingalls, was secretary OF
the territorial council; In 1851 secretary
Of the state senate; and in 1867 state
senator from Atchison county.
In September, 1868, in company with A.
II. Horton, he leased the Atchison Cham
pion, and edited the paper until the re-
turn Of John A. Martin from the army,
January, 1865. He was nominated for
lieutenant governor by the republican
union state convention of 1923 and as
an anti-Lane candidate was defeated.
He was elected United States senator
to succeed S. c. Pomeroy taking his
seat March 4, 1873, and he held his seal
in the senate until his overthrow by the
populist party in 1890, when he was sue
ceeded by w. A. PETER.
me name OF oelldIOi IhS"ii9 10 'HA
oughly idetnhed with the best literature
of the state, and he was a frequent con-
tributor to the Odd Kansas magazine
During the war, Mr.. ingalls, was judge
advocate and aide, with rank 81 major
to General George w. Deitzler OF the
volunteer state militia, participating II
the battles of Westport, Lexington ano
independence during the Price rad II
the fall of 1864.
He was married September p, 1865, al
Atchison to Anna Louise Chesbrough
the daughter of a prominent New York
City merchant.
He was the father Of seven children
six of whom are still living.