5/7/2023 What's God Got to Do with it? Robert Ingersoll on Free Though... by Robert G. IngersollRead Now![]() ![]() After a brief time there, he accepted the deputy clerk position with John E. In 1855, after Cunningham was named registrar for the federal land office in southeastern Illinois at Shawneetown, Illinois, Ingersoll followed him to the riverfront city along the Ohio River. ![]() Cunningham, Williamson County's County Clerk and Circuit Clerk. While in Marion, he learned law from Judge Willis Allen and served as deputy clerk for John M. ![]() A county historian writing 22 years later noted that local residents considered the Ingersolls as a "very intellectual family but, being Abolitionists, and the boys being deists, rendered obnoxious to our people in that respect." Later that year, the family settled in Marion, Illinois, where Robert and his brother Ebon Clarke Ingersoll were admitted to the bar in 1854. The elder daughter, Eva Ingersoll-Brown, was a renowned feminist and suffragist. Ingersoll was married, February 13, 1862, to Eva Amelia Parker (1841–1923). At some time prior to his Metropolis position, Ingersoll had also taught school in Mount Vernon, Illinois. McBane, do the "greater part of the teaching, while Latin and history occupied his own attention". ![]() During 1853, "Bob" Ingersoll taught a term of school in Metropolis, Illinois, where he let one of his students, the future Judge Angus M. ![]()
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