Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-07-11
mr.. N. 7. INGLES DEAD
Death Terminates Career of an
Eminent Lawyer
RESIDENT OF CITY SO YEARS
Was Man OF Remarkable intellectual
ca.iber and highly versed in
Literature.

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Literature.
Mr.. Matthew Thompson Ingles, at
one time one of the most prominent
and widely known lawyers in Martins
burg. calmly fell asleep in death on
Tuesday evening at four o'clock at
his home, No. 125 West Burke street,
having been taken very i'll last Sun
day. He had been in failing health
for the past -four years, the last two
of which he was confined to the house.
His death was due to general debility.
He was aged about rs years.
Mr.. lngles was the last of his fam
lily. He is survived by a number of
nephews and nieces in various parts
of the country He was unmarried.
Mr.. 1ngles was born at Millersburg,
Ohio. In his young manhood he en-
tered the law school at Cleveland. o.,
from which he was graduated. Little.
If anything, is known of his early ca
reer, as by nature he was extremely
reticent concerning matters personal
to himself In 1857 he went to Shep-
herdstown, w. Va, where he practiced
law until 1870 when he removed to
Martinsburg where he sNte resided
For some time Mr.. Ingles was an
ananuensis for the late Charles
James Faulkner and later became a
law partner of Judge E Boyd Faux
ner. so continuing until Judge Faux
ner was elected to the bench about
Is years ago. He practiced law here
with success until about four years
ago when fast failing health forced
him to relinquish a profession for
which he was singularly fitted by ma
ture and training.
For some time Mr.. lngles made has
home with Miss Eliza McQuilkin and
Mrs. Rose Couchman. who tenderly
cared for him In the closing years or
his earthly life.
As lawyer Mr.. lngles ranked very
high. He was once offered the nomi-
nation for the judgeship but. though
eminently qualified for it by reason
of his judicial temperament and legal
learning. he refused 1t, preferring the
career of the practitioner and that Sc
clusion that the bench could not as
sure him. He was conceded to be one
of the ablest lawyers in this section
of the state and was probably one of
the deepest thinkers and best equip.
ped and most resourceful lawyers that
ever practiced at the Berkeley county
bar, while his services were invalu-
able as an adviser at the trial table
AS a pIeader, in the technical sense
of the term, Mr.. Ingles had few equals
and no superiors in the state. He
constructed his argument on the
| broad foundation of the fundamental
principal involved in the case and, as
prominent member of the Martins
burg bar and warm. personal friend
/, and admirer of Mr.. 1ngles remarked
after his death, his art of preparing
law case for trial was well-nigh per-
feet. But as a pleader before jury
it is rather remarkable that he was
! neither strong nor forceful, owing,
| perhaps, to an innate modesty that
made him shrink from public utter
ance and his lack Of oratorical ability;
yet, withal. his career as an attorney
was peculiarly honorable and dis.
| tingujshed.
Mr.. 1ngles did not, however. con-
fine his superior mental attainments
to the law alone. because Of the 1T
erary bent of his mind. He was adj.
mittedly the most widely read man in
literature in this community. He was
connoisseur in rare old books and
possessed number OF rare copies
which were among his warmest and
most constant companions.
On his social side Mr.. Ingles was
not popular in the general meaning
of that term, being seclusive, quiet,
reserved and unobtrusive, but with
his intimates he was genial, compan-
ionable and entertaining. One of his
particular friends was the late w. H.
H. Flick who was law student with
Mr.. Ingles when they were young
men together at the Cleveland Law
school and who afterwards, for many
years, adorned the legal profession in
Martinsburg. Mr.. Ingles was extreme
ly charitable by nature but exempli-
fed it in his own peculiar way, so
that while he gave literally of his
means to many, he vivid not let it be
known if he could prevent it.
In politics Mr.. Ingles was an un-
compromising republican and in re-
ligion devout and consistent Pres
byterian and absolutely upright and
clean in moral character. He was
positive character and strong in his
likes and dislikes. But his most
prominent characteristic of all was
his extraordinary intellectual endow-
ment, and his death removes one
whose place at the bar it would be
difficult to fill and whose moral and
mental counterpart cannot easily be.
found. while his demise is profoundly
mourned by his friends especially
among the cider members of the Mar
tinsburg bar
The funeral viii be held Friday at
IS D. M. at the home Of the deceased,
1875 West Burke street, conducted by
Rev DR.. #. M Woods, of the Presby-
terrain church. Interment in Green
Hill cemetery.
Body Laid to Rest in Green Hill
The funeral service of the late M
T. lngles will be held Friday after