Ingersoll Chronology | A Timeline of Robert Green Ingersoll's Life

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Rev. Ingersoll called to preach at Free Church

In a theater where his father preached

Rev. Ingersoll preached a year in Adams prior to Belleville

John Ingersoll preached in Belleville for 2 years

source has father preaching 3 years (till 1845) at 1st Congregational Church

Pastorate ended May 1845

village then known as Praireville – left a little more than 6 months later for Illinois

reading Burns & Shakespeare

teaching in rural Tenn.

with brother and father

Smith says 1858

possibly Ingersoll’s first freethought lecture – year tenative.

dubious – supposedly delivered before the death of his father

Married Eva Parker

hall was crowded

will deliver at lecture week after next on Progress

almost certainly political

5000 in audience

Gov. Oglesby & Col. Ingersoll start 10 days of speaking in various parts of the state.

Speaking with Gov. Oglesby

address to Germans on Tuesday – religious people making quite a fight on me now…

Elected 4th VP of Union League of America

Left for Washington

Grant Speech – could have been early April

political speech consisted of “support of the principles of the Republican party,”

discrepancy between accounts in paper – may have been Mar 25th

Susan B. Anthony also present

dedication of new building on Paine’s 134th birthday

visiting Washington

will return home first week of March

mandamus case

case lasted 3 days

case before Judge Higbee

case before common council

case before (judge?) Treat

135th birthday of Paine

There with Susan B Anthony& others.

Largest audience ever gathered in Opera House

Seems likely to be RGI – although listed as S D Ingersoll

legal case?

legal case?

legal case?

enormous audience

legal case?

explained bankruptcy of railroad to employees of Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw RR

Mentions travelling east this summer. May give her a copy of a book having published.

Will go to Boston this week

will be home next week

misdating of 1877 Washington lecture?

will leave for New York tonight – start for home Tuesday”

representing Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw RR

“been in court nearly all day”

Concerning phrenology & religious ideas

possible lecture in Monticello (IL?)

2 months, left on Adriatica

will be home about Nov 2nd

aboard Adriatica

State Railroad Tax Cases, Oct 1875 Term, 92 U.S. 375

His Opinion of the Candidates

cancelled due to sickness

had just returned from NY

heading to Old Orchard Beach,ME

for speech?

came from Boston by steamship

3000 present

monster mass meeting

have had continual oration in Maine. Will reach home next Friday.

10,000 in attendence

25,000 in attendance

Contains the famous “Vision of War”

5,000 in attendance

Speaking in Ohio until Oct 2 – then Indiania

crowds serenaded Ingersoll at hotel – responded with speech to large crowd

morning speech while waiting for train

lasted for 3 nearly hours

7000 people

15 thousand

8 thousand

12 to 15 thousand

20,000 attendees

will give Chicago address on 21st

3000 in audience

~20,000 attendees

20,000 people

10,000 people

7,000 attendees

Political

12,000 attendees

10,000 attendees

10,000 attendees

We go in the morning to Hartford, back here on Friday, home Monday next

Some sort of legal business

possible lecture

railroad business

city assumed by mention of Case Hall

immense audience

may be home next Monday

check in this time frame for Cincinnati lecture

possible lecture – or may have been family meeting?

met the ‘folks’ at Altoona on

discusses leaving Peoria

cabinet post

will deliver a lecture in NY on the 14th on the political situation.

to NY city resident, saying he will support Hayes in lecture

poorly attended. Switched by audience vote from 827

first public appearance in Boston

hall crowded to full capacity

leaving for Kansas City

probable lecture in Kansas City

left about noon

leaving for Denver at 3AM, lecture there next Monday night

tomorrow we leave direct for San Francisco – will NOT stop in Salt Lake – could not get a hall

will lecture in Salt Lake upon return from California

on route to San Fransisco for lecture

453 miles from San Francisco, locomotive left track

on delayed train heading for San Francisco

probably resting from trip

splendid house last night

Going today to San Jose. to speak at Stockton tomorrow

probable lecture

lectured last night in Carson City

going to Carson City – then Lake Tahoe – then San Francisco

*possible* delivery of Ghosts

possible lecture in Lake Tahoe

home around the 11th of July

start for home say 6th of July – something about cool as the audience at Quincy (IL? MA?)

National Labor Union Picnic benefit lecture

benefit for free reading room, 7-20 thousand present. Addition to Ingersol Canon?

Part of Vindication of Thomas Paine

delivered at Illinois State Fair

Part of Vindication of Thomas Paine

Ingersoll there?

Part of Vindication of Thomas Paine

Letter to Utica Herald

not first lecture in Erie

1st visit to Central New York

suspected first visit of Ingersoll to Utica

will be at the house next month

Moved residence to Washington

Responding to letter from Dr. Gregg of Ireland

will lecture in Troy NY on 17th – then Lafayette on the 20th

will lecture at Troy, Dunkirk & Lafayette

Ingersoll’s Ideas

First lecture in Troy

Ingersoll would not give assurances that “nothing offensive to Christianitywould be in the lecture”

doubtful – misdated?

mentions a trip to Cleveland – Nov 6?

on way to Washington (after Albany) for law practice

with family

largest assembly ever in that hall

lecture on Ghosts tonight?

lecture last night

not more than 200 persons present

1000 in attendance.Utica Weekly Herald has complete transcript.

about 500 in audience

about 900 in audience

lecture titled Skulls in ad

lecture titled Skulls in review

returned to Washington this morning

concerning story that Ingersoll didn�t pay his hotel bill in RI

met with French officials and Senators

seems unlikely given no coverage in Post

3rd lecture in Baltimore

lecture title was Religion of Past Present & Future – Date 26?

first lecture in Terre Haute

title given as Intellectual Development -large audience

lecture title was Democracy of the Fireside

lecture titled Religion of the Past Present & Future

800-1000 people

written just before lecture

lecture titled Skulls in ad

about 500 people present – lecture titled Religion of the Past Present & Future

The Florida Fraud

going to be home Wednesday

lecture titled Religion of the Past Present & Future

with family

Bob Ingersoll

Will return by Steamer Rhein Sep 10