Talk:Robert G. Ingersoll

message: Below text moved from "Robert Green Ingersoll", since made into redirect to here. Any new info below should be incorporated into the existing article. -- Infrogmation 05:05, 30 May 2004 (UTC)
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message: I don't know my way around Wikiquote well enough to track down the quotations on this page and get them properly transferred, but the quotation-to-article coefficient seems untenably high.
Thanks, Johndodd 04:46, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikiquote tag

message: I noticed that the fact that Ingersoll represented James Reavis, an enterprising forger knwon as the "Baron of Arizona".  Having recently performed a major expansion of the Reavis article, there are a few details I think should be mentioned.  While it is true that Ingersoll was fooled by Reavis' forgeries, the claim that Reavis' forgeries were detected due to a watermark from a Wisconsin paper mill is a fiction created after Reavis was convicted of fraud and forgery (see James Reavis#Later life for supporting citations).  It should also be noted that there is no evidence that Ingersoll, or any of the other influential lawyers, politicians, and business leaders whom Reavis fooled, ever traveled to the Mexican and Spanish archives holding the forged documents.  He would instead have based his opinion upon photographic and certified copies provided to him by Reavis.  By everything I have seen while working on the Reavis article, Ingersoll disassociated himself from Reavis as soon as he learned the truth.
I will leave it to others to determine if Ingersoll's association with Reavis should be mentioned in the article.  The popular fiction about watermarks revealing the fraud has however been removed. --Allen3 talk 23:00, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ingersoll's dealings with James Reavis 

message: * 
:would be a good resource for this article.
-- Javaweb (talk) 11:33, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  2013 Biography 

message: How ist the name Ingersoll pronounced? Can someone add IPA? --Neitram (talk) 09:18, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

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message: FWIW: The link http://www.robertgreeningersoll.org/ points to expired domain. I'm not a Wiki editing expert, so I'll leave any changes in more capable hands.
BornRightTheFirstTime (talk) 01:26, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead link: http://www.robertgreeningersoll.org/ 

message: How is his eulogy for Whitman consistent with his attitudes towards homosexuality? More info needed.2A00:23C3:E284:900:7520:A02C:72FA:FC97 (talk) 11:47, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Whitman

message: Daughter shown as both 	Eva Ingersoll Wakefield and Eva Ingersoll-Brown  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Daksol (talk • contribs) 19:06, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
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message: Found in Chapter Seven of “A Strange Discovery” (1899) by Charles Romyn Dake; available from amazon and all over the Internet for free, such as the copy at gutenberg.com. It is an account of an Englishman, gone to the USA in 1877 to find the truth of Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘Narrative of A. Gordon Pym’. The story has a good deal about the USA of the time; Greenbackers, Prohibitionists, Samuel J. Tilden, the recently concluded Civil War, etc. Chapter Seven has an extended discussion of Ingersoll. A few things are changed, such as calling ‘Mistakes of Moses’ ‘Mistakes of the Gods’ instead, but it is him; even mentioning he was AG of his State at 33. The discussion, support and criticism of Ingersoll are all as they would have been at the time, and give real insight into the subject. Anyone wanting to improve the article should look there. 2A00:23C3:E284:900:7520:A02C:72FA:FC97 (talk) 12:10, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Contemporary view of Ingersoll