The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-14
and De
 Family-Fuh Yet Completed.
Hon. Colin Macrae

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 respected citizens, died at his
 dence. S5 Trumbull street, yesterc
 ternoon at twenty minutes past MT. Ingersolrs life had been despaires of for several days previous and espe-
 cially during the immediate forty-eight
 hours preceding death. For that length
 of time he had refused nourishment and death was due to sheer exhaustion from this cause, superinduced by the effects of pneumonia, with which be had been suffering since about August 2srd.
 About that time deceased contracted a.
 severe cold as the result of a ride in
 the country, which developed into
 pneumonia Dr. L. s. De Forest at tended and Mir. Ingersoll seemed to be improving when a relapse was suffered. He rallied, however, and 1t was thought that complete recovery would be the
 happy result, when another relapse oc-
 cured, just two days previous to his demise and from that time on he grad
 ually failed until death.
 MT. Ingersolls daughter, Miss Mary p, and son, George J., and wife, to- gether with the attending physician
 were the only ones present when death occurred. Another son, Colin M. Inger-
 soil, Jr., had been summoned and is on his way to New Haven.
 MT. Ingersoll had been a prominent figure in the life of New Haven for many years. Of striking appearances,
 tall and distinguished and courtly lock- ing, he attracted attention everywhere. He was the senior of his distinguished
 brother, the late ex-Governor Charles
 R. Ingersoll who died less than year ago, and they were the sixth in line from John Ingersoll. who was in Hart ford in 1653 From John to Colin M. the family has given to the state some of it's most distinguished citizens, law yers, legislators and diplomats of which the commonwealth can boast Deceased was the son of the late Ralph Isaacs and Margaret vanden- heuvel Ingersoll and was born in this city March Il, 1919, and was at the time of death in his eighty fifth year. After his preparation for college he pursued his studies in TriEsst tyr ls,ll ifxEre.r, Hartford, and in 1889 he graduated from the Yale Law school and was Shortly thereafter admitted to the bar. Tn lS43
 he was clerk of the Connecticut state senate. In 1847 and 1848 he was score tary of the American legation at St
 Petersburg, at the time when his dis
 tingutshed father. the late Hon. Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll,. was minister at the
 Russian court. For nearly Q year dur
 ing his fathers absence from court, MT.
 Ingersoll was acting minister. Return
 ing to New Haven when his father re-
 signed from the St. Petersburg post, de-
 ceased was elected to congress by the old New Haven district, and represent
 ed 1t in the sessions of 1s51-3 and 1354-5.
 He was adjutant general of the state from 1867 to 1871.
 MT. Ingersoll always kept a law
 office, but was more an adviser than an advocate. It is only a short time
 since he gave up his office in the law
 chambers.
 Tn 1853 MT. Ingersoll married Miss
 Julia Harriet Pratt of Prattsville, N.
 Y. who is dead. Of the marriage four
 children were born. namely, Miss Mary B. Ingersoll, who lived with her father: Colin M Ingersoll, Jr., who is chief engineer of the New York, New Haven
 & Hartford railroad; George P. Irger-
 soll, lawyer practicing in New York. also of New Haven, whose home is in
 Ridgefeld, this state, and Mrs. George
 W. J. Angel, now dead
 The funeral arrangements are not yet
 completed but they will probably ba announced this afternoon.