Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1886 — ROBERT G. INGERSOLL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ROBERT G. INGERSOLL.

Portrait of the Noted Lawyer and Agnostic. The convicted Chicago anarchists have lately made an unsuccessful effort to enlist the services of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll in the legal battle fortheir lives. He has thus far declined to take part in the celebrated case, on the ground that he has not the time to spare. Col. Ingersoll is a native of Dresden, N. where he was born in 1833. When twelve years old, he accompanied his parents to Illinois, where he was edu-

cated and applied himself to the study of the law. He ran as a Democratic candidate for Congress in 1860, but was defeated. In 1862 he entered the army as Colonel of a regiment of cavalry, and was taken prisoner, but was exchanged. Returning to civil life he became a Republican, and in 1868 was made Attorney General of Illinois. At the Republican convention of 1876 his sneech. in proposing Mr. Blaine’s namefor the Presidency, aroused general attention for its eloquence, and since that time Col. Ingersoll has been prominent before -the country as an orator. His law practice is very extensive and his fees large. It is said th it Stephen W. Dorsey paid him the enormous sum of $100,090 for his services in the Star-Route trial.