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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (!NGALLS IRONS.) 



was vice-president. After Congress had agreed to 

 aid the enterprise by an issue of bonds, he and his 

 associates carried on the construction of the rail- 

 road out of their private means till the bonds be- 

 came available by the completion of a stipulated 

 mileage. The Central Pacific was finished in 1869, 

 the last spike being driven May 10. Having car- 

 ried through so gigantic a scheme, Mr. Huntington 

 had the confidence of all the great financiers of the 

 country, and was enabled to command unlimited 

 capital in any of his later undertakings. At the 

 time of his death there were merged into the 

 Southern Pacific Railroad Company, of which he 

 had been the promoter and was the president, 26 

 corporations, with more than 9,000 miles of rail- 

 road track and 5,000 miles of steamship line. He 

 had succeeded in completing the Chesapeake and 

 Ohio Railroad, in which many other contractors 

 had been ruined. He turned the village of New- 

 port News, Va., into a thriving town, and had 

 invested more than $7,000,000 in a shipyard there, 

 which employs thousands of men. He had the 

 reputation of being one of the largest single land- 

 holders in the country, holding title to vast tracts 

 of undeveloped land in California, Kentucky, West 

 Virginia, Mexico, and Guatemala, as well as valu- 

 able real estate in New York city, and four large 

 hotels. Some of his vast wealth he used in philan- 

 thropic ways. In 1886 he erected a massive gran- 

 ite church in his native town, to the memory of 

 his mother. In October, 1891, he gave to the town 

 of Westchester, N. Y., a library and reading room. 

 In February, 1897, he presented to the Metropoli- 

 tan Museum of Art the celebrated portrait of 

 Washington painted by C. W. Peale. For colored 

 people he aided greatly in the construction and 

 equipment of the Hampton (Va.) Normal Agricul- 

 tural Institute and the Tuskegee (Ala.) Normal 

 and Industrial Institute; to the latter he gave as 

 an endowment fund $50,000 on Dec. 6, 1899. His 

 collection of art objects paintings, carvings, etc. 

 was worth $500,000; he left an estate valued at 

 $35,000,000. 



Ing-alls. John James, lawyer, born in Middle- 

 ton, Mass., Dec. 29, 1833; died in Las Vegas, New 

 Mexico, Aug. 16, 1900. He was graduated at Wil- 

 liams College in 1855, and was admitted to the bar 

 in 1857. In October, 1858, he removed to Atchison, 

 Kan. In 1859 he became a member of the Wyan- 

 dotte Constitutional Convention; in I860 was 

 made secretary of the Territorial Council, and in 

 1861 secretary of the Kansas Senate. In 1862 he 

 was elected to the State Senate, and the same year 

 he was the unsuccessful candidate for Lieutenant 

 Governor. After his defeat he became editor of 

 the Atchison Champion, which place he held from 

 1863 till 1865. He was again defeated as a can- 

 didate for Lieutenant Governor in 1864. In 1872 

 he was elected to the United States Senate, and 

 he served continuously in that body from 1873 

 till 1891. During the last three years of that time 

 he was president pro tern, of the Senate. He 

 gained wide fame as a Senator, his speeches at- 

 tracting attention throughout the country. When 

 the Farmers' Alliance party had gained control of 

 Kansas, as Senator Ingalls had dealt with that 

 element in anything but a gentle way, he was 

 compelled to retire from public life in 1891. He 

 then devoted most of his time to newspaper work, 

 and traveled about the country as correspondent 

 for a Now York paper. He also lectured. 



Ingate, Clarence L. A., naval officer, born in 

 Alabama ; died in Guam, Ladrone Islands, Dec. 24, 

 1899. He was graduated at the United States 

 Naval Academy, July 1, 1890, entered the marine 

 orps as second lieutenant, and was promoted first 

 lieutenant, April 30, 1892, and captain, Sept. 26, 



1898. He served through the war with Spain, and 

 later was stationed on the receiving ship Vermont 

 in Brooklyn Navy Yard. He was on his way to 

 Manila at the time of his death. 



Ingham, Hannah May (Mrs. E. T. Stetson), 

 actress, born at Mokelumne Hill, Cal., in 1867; 

 died in New York city, Jan. 16, 1900. She made 

 her first appearance at the California Theater, San 

 Francisco, as Ophelia, in 1885. She shortly after- 

 ward became the wife of E. T. Stetson, an actor 

 of melodramatic plays, who traveled with a com- 

 pany of his own through the Western and Southern 

 States, and with him Miss Ingham played the 

 heroines of his various dramas. Her first appear- 

 ance in New York was at the Fourteenth Street 

 Theater, as Margaret in The House of Mystery. 

 Sept. 14, 1896. In August, 1898, she appeared a* 

 the leading woman of the Murray Hill Theater, 

 New York, where she remained, playing twice a 

 day during the continuance of each theatrical sea- 

 son, until her death. In this time she played a 

 great number of parts in the popular plays of the 

 day, as the practice of the theater was to have 

 a new play every week. She found time to write 

 for periodicals stories and essays and a new version 

 of East Lynne, called The Young Wife, first pro- 

 duced at the Murray Hill Theater, Oct. 3, lsi)S. 

 Her last appearance was at that theater, Jan. 15, 

 1900, as Julie de Varion in An Enemy to the 

 King. 



Irby, John Laurens Manning, planter, born 

 in Laurens County, South Carolina, Sept. 10. 

 1854; died in Laurens, S. C., Dec. 9, 1900. He 

 was educated at the University of Virginia and 

 at Princeton University, and was admitted to tin- 

 South Carolina bar in 1876. The same year lie 

 took an active part in the Democratic campaign. 

 He continued in the practice of law till 1S7!I. 

 when he retired to his farm near Laurens and 

 devoted himself to planting on a large scale. In 

 1878, in a personal quarrel, he killed his o]>|> 

 nent, for which he was subsequently tried and 

 acquitted. He served in the South Carolina Legis- 

 lature from 1886 till 1890, and was Speaker dur- 

 ing the latter year. He entered the reform move- 

 ment as a supporter of Tillman, and was made 

 chairman of the Reform Executive Committee, or- 

 ganized the campaign, and won the victory for 

 Tillman. He was elected United States Senator 

 Dec. 11, 1890, defeating -Gen. Wade Hampton l>y 

 105 votes against 42, with 10 for M. L. Donaldson. 

 March 14, 1893, he was elected chairman of tin- 

 Senate Committee on Transportation Routes to 

 the Seaboard. His term, during which he was the 

 youngest member of the Senate, expired March 

 4, 1897. In the meantime he had quarreled with 

 Tillman, and refused to stand for re-election. On 

 the death of Senator Earle he made a content. 

 and sustained his first political defeat at the 

 hands of Mr. McLaurin. 



Irons, Martin, labor leader, born in Dundee 

 Scotland, March 1, 1832; died in Bunceyille. 

 Texas, Nov. 17. 1900. He came to New York witli 

 his parents when fourteen years of a.iie. un<l 

 learned the trade of machinist. Several \ 

 afterward he went to Carrollton, La., where hi 

 was foreman in a machine shop. He tried the 

 grocery business in New Orleans, hut made a t.iil 

 ure of it: and after leaving that city for Frank 

 fort, Ky., he became widely known as an agitator 

 in the movement among railway men for shorter 

 hours. From Frankfort he went to St. Loui-. 

 then to Hannibal and Lexington, Mo., speak in; 

 to and making the acquaintance of the laboring 

 classes. In the latter place he was also COIIIM 

 with the Granger movement. He organized am 

 led the famous Missouri Pacific strike of 188(1. 



