Charles Roberts Ingersoll (16 September 1821-25 January 1903) was the
47th Governor of
Connecticut from 1873 to 1877.
Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University Deceased during the Academical Year ending in June, 1903, including the record of a few who died previously, hitherto unreported, Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut, 1903, pp. 216-8.
He was born in
New Haven, Connecticut, son of
Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll, a
New Haven lawyer who also served in the state House of Representatives, the United States Congress, and as United States Minister to
Russia and as the mayor of New Haven, and of his wife, Margaret, née Van den Heuvel. He graduated from
Yale College at the age of nineteen in 1840. He visited Europe aboard the United States frigate
Preble, commanded by his uncle, Captain Voorhes, for two years, and returned to
Yale Law School, graduating in 1844. He was admitted to the bar in 1845 and became the law partner of his father.
His wife was Virginia Gregory, daughter of
Admiral Francis Hoyt Gregory. They had six children. A daughter, Elizabeth married
George G. Haven, Jr. He died in New Haven and was interred at
Grove Street......
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