Edward Ingersoll (2 April 1817, Philadelphia[1] - 19 February 1893 Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[2]) was a United States author.
He was the son of Mary Wilcocks[2] and politician and writer Charles Jared Ingersoll.
[1] He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1835,[1] and was admitted to the bar in 1838, but he never established a legal practice.
[2] During the American Civil War, his sympathies were with the South.
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