Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-08-25
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Howell and mart and palace. soon or late
knock unbidden once at every gatei
II sleeping wake If feaSting rise before
turn away 1t is the hour of fate
And they who follow me reach every state
MortalS desire and conquer every foe
Save death; but those who doubt or hesitate
Condemned to failure penury and woe
Seek me in vain and useleSsly implore
answer not. and return more
John J. Ingalls, Opportunity
John ]. Ingalls, was born of sturdy
New England stock and his natal dav
was December %, 1898. His birthplace
was Middleton, Essex county. Mass
Lynn, the great shoe town of the coun-
try was settled by his American ances-
tor, Edmund Ingalls, His father. an
inventor of note was a native of Mid
dleton- and his mother was a daughter
of Samuel Chase of Portsmouth, N H
In the public schools of Haverhiu he
| laid the foundation of the splendid ed
ucation that made him pre-eminent
In 1855 he was graduated from W IL
Hams college. Then he studied law
and looked about him for 4 new coun-
| try III which to try his tledgling wings
| He selected Kansas and first put his
| foot On the soil of that state on the
| fourth day of October, 1858 Sumner.
Il boom town near Atchison. was his
first home place and when it faded in
TO a reIninisccncc he became a resident
| of Atchison- In 1859 Mr. Ingalls, first
actively engaged in politics In that
| year he was elected delegate to the
| constitutional convention which met at
| WyandOtte, and in the following year
was secretary of the territorial council
| In 1851 he served as secretary of the
| state senate. and IN 1862 he served
| his district in the state senate
| as its representative. In lS53. as the
| Republican candidate for the Office of
| lieutenant governor, he met his first
| political defeat For three succeed
ing years he was editor of the Atchi-
son Champion, and for time Judge
| advocate OF the state militia. with the.
successive rank of major and Ieuten-
| ant colonel. In the latter position he.
took part in the battles of Westport
Lexington and Independence during
| the Price raid in 1864. In the same
| year he again went down to defeat at
| the polls as q candidate for the offict,
| Of lieutenant governor. He then aban-
| doned active politics and for nine years
devoted himself to law and journalism
In both professions he achieved sue
cess, and in 1873 he was elected United
| States senator to succeed =. G. Pome-
roy.
The downfall of the noted Brick
| Pomery marked the elevation of In
! gals as a national cha -acter. As has
been stated, he had been nine years
| quietly but successfully pursuing the
professions of law and journalism At
the same time he had been laying po-
| htical wires where they would be the
| most effective, and when the time came
| for the legislature to EJECT a United
! States senator he announced his ambi-
ton There were many candidates
among them Pomery, who wished to
| succeed himself; Sidney Clark, Thomas
| A. Osborne, Charles Robinson and D.
| NJ. Valentine. 1t was a battle royal,
and the hopes of Ingalls, were hanging
in the balance until a Doodle expose
placed the mantle on his shoulders by
an almost unanimous vote State Sen
ator Alexander NJ. York of Montgom-
cry made the expose in a most dra-
matte manner. He waited until the
excitement occasioned by the canvass
was at its height, and then he ad-
vanced to the desk of the chief clerk
and laid thereon 81, 900. That sum. he
declared had been paid him to vote
for POmerOy-
He took his seat in March of the
same year and at once became a power
He remained a senator for eighteen
successive years. From his first en-
trance into national politics he became
positive influence and a picturesque
figure From 1889 to 1891 he was pres
| % In He
down to defeat in 1890 when the Popu-
lists elected Mr.. PETER to succeed him
The name Of Senator Ingalls, is thor
ouChly identified with the best Htera-
ture Of his state and Of the nation In
his early career he was frequent con
tributor to magazines, and since his
retirement from the senate he became
a writer and lecturer Of national re
pute-
1t was in the year 1862 that the mot
to of Kansas was selected and the state
seal adopted The motto was suggested
in 1861 by Mr.. Ingalls,, who was at the
time secretary of the state senate, al
its first session He suggested to the
Joint committee appointed to present q
design for the great seal q single star
rising from the clouds at the base Of q
field with a constellation above and
the now famous motto. His idea was
amplified, the committee incorporating
= river view, buffalo chased by Indians
on horseback. a mountain scene and a
log cabin with settler blowing in the
foreground. The clouds at the base
! were intended to represent the troubles
and periIs of the territorial history OF
Kansas, the star the new state and the
constellation the union
He was married, Sept. 81, 1865, al
Atchison, 20 Anna Louise ChesebrOugh-
the daughter OF a prominent merchant
of New York city.
He was the father of seven child rem
Eve of whom are still living.
A sInel:er IS to be built in the gas
district at Thayer-
The ground for the Parsons asylum
for the insane has been staked out.