Samuel M. Inglis was a nineteenth century American educator.
His family moved to Illinois, where he graduated from Mendota Collegiate Institute with first honors in 1861.
[3] In 1887, he married Anna Louise Jackson, a Hillsboro native who died in 1892.
In addition to serving as State Superintendent of Public Instruction, he was a trustee of Northern Illinois Normal School as Chair of Mathematics and, later, Chair of Literature, Rhetoric, and Elocution.
He died on June 1, 1898, on vacation in Kenosha, Wisconsin, before his official duties would have commenced in September 1899.