Ingraham

attitude toward religion. Just before his untime-
ly death Ingraham had been negotiating in the
North for the publication of a new work to be
entitled "St. Paul, the Roman Citizen/'

As a rector, he suffered from the popularity
of his earlier, more sensational books. Accord-
ing to his grandson, the income from his religious
novels was used largely to buy up and destroy the
copyrights of some of his early romances. A
somewhat different type of work, which reveals
the author's affiliation with his adopted section,
was The Sunny South (1860), a collection of let-
ters originally published in the Saturday Courier
in 1853-54. Ingraham was mortally wounded by
the accidental discharge of his own gun in the
vestry-room of Christ Church at Holly Springs,
Miss. He was survived by his wife, his son Pren-
tiss [g.v.], and three daughters. He is buried in
the Hill Crest Cemetery.

[The facts set forth above have been gleaned from
family records, a contemporary newspaper, annual pub-
lications of the Prot Episc. Church, and reminiscences
furnished by Helen Craft Anderson (Mrs. W. A. Ander-
son) of Holly Springs. See also Brown Thurston,
Thurston Gcneals. (1880) ; D. H. Bishop, "Joseph Holt
Ingraham," in Lib. of Southern Lit., vol. VI (1909) J
Am. Quart. Church Rev., Apr. 1861.] D.A.D.

INGRAHAM, PRENTISS (Dec. 22, 1843-
Aug. 16, 1904), author, soldier, was born in
Adams County, Miss., the son of Joseph Holt
Ingraham [q.v.~\ and Mary (Brooks) Ingraham.
In his early years, according to a contemporary,
he was "a dark, handsome, fascinating youth/'
His education was gained by private tutoring,
attendance at St Timothy's Military Academy,
Md., Jefferson College, Miss., and Mobile Medi-
cal College, but was interrupted by the Civil
War. He served in the light artillery, Withers'
Mississippi Regiment; as a staff officer with the
rank of lieutenant; and in Ross's brigade, Texas
cavalary, as commander of scouts. He was once
captured and twice wounded. Probably no Amer-
ican writer was more truly a soldier of fortune
than he. Lured on by his love of adventure, after
the Civil War he served under Juarez in Mexi-
co ; in Austria in the war with Prussia; in Crete;
In Africa; afloat and ashore in the Cuban ten
years' war for independence. Extensive travels
in Eastern lands and thrilling experiences in
the West also provided material for his more
than six hundred novels, dozen plays, and nu-
merous short stories and poems.

The most striking thing about the literary ca-
reer on which he embarked in London in 1870,
and which he continued in New York and Chi-
cago, was his fecundity. Like his father, he wrote
for weekly family papers, and he was one of the
inost prolific producers for the Dime and Half-

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Dime Libraries published by Beadle & Adams.
On a hurry order for the firm he once turned ofi
a "half-dime," 35,000 words, in a day and a
night, with a fountain pen. He was an intimate
friend of Buffalo Bill—William F. Cody [g.v.]
—about whose career he wrote more than two
hundred "paper-backs," which are still to be
found on the news stands. In somewhat similar
vein is The Girl Rough Riders (1903), a juvenile
book containing a good deal of description of the
Grand Canyon, which is said to have been in-
spired by his escort of a party of young women
across the plains. Among his other titles are:
The Beautiful Rivals; or, Life at Long Branch
(1884); Zuleikah: A Story of Crete (1887);
Darkle Dan (1888) ; Cadet Carey, of West Point
(1890); An American Monte Cristo (1891);
and Saratoga (1885), which he edited as a result
of his residence in that city. As far as can be
judged from the narratives now obtainable, these
books, although without distinction, are written
in a surprisingly correct and easy fashion, and
are wholesome in their general teachings. Monte-
zuma, the most popular of his plays, ran for sev-
eral years, and Life and Duty is said to have had
almost equal success.

Ingraham was married in 1875 to R°sa Lang-
ley of New York, who with three children sur-
vived him. His death occurred at the Beauvoir
Confederate Home, which he had entered a few
days before in search of rest after having, as he
said, crowded a hundred and twenty years of
experience into his sixty years of life.

t [Mildred L. Rutherford, The South in History and
Literature (1907); E. L. Pearson, Dime Novels (1929) ;
Who's Who in America, 1903-05; Critic, Oct. 1904;
Bookman, Oct. 1904; Confederate Veteran (Nashville),
Nov. 1904; Publishers* Weekly, Aug. 27,1904; Evening
Post (N. Y,)> Aug. 17, 1904.] ix A, D.

INMAN, GEORGE (Dec. 3,1755-0. February
1789), Loyalist soldier, was the son of Ralph
and Susanna (Speakman) Inman. Bom in Bos-
ton, Mass., he grew to manhood at his father's
opulent and generously hospitable home in Cam-
bridge. The family was closely allied with many
of the provincial leaders who later espoused the
Loyalist cause. Inman took a degree from Har-
vard in 1772, spent three years in the Boston
counting-house of the brothers Brimmer; then,
against the wishes of his father and his Tory
friends, served with the British troops who
stormed Bunker Hill. His father clung to Bos-
ton, but In January 1776, in company with his
brother-in-law, an officer in the Royal Navy,
George Inman sailed from the city never to re-
turn. Associating himself with the King's Own,
a regiment of light infantry, he was present at
the battle of Long Island, where, on the morn-

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