Charles A. Ingersoll

Charles Anthony Ingersoll (October 19, 1798 – January 12, 1860) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut and member of the prominent Ingersoll political family of Connecticut.

Education and career

Born on October 19, 1798, in New Haven, Connecticut, Ingersoll read law to be admitted to the bar, and received an Artium Magister degree from Yale University in 1827. Together, they were the parents of:

Charles Dennis Ingersoll (1843–1905), a Yale lawyer and judge in New York City who married Katherine Corse Sanders, in 1885. Thomas Chester Ingersoll (1845–1884), a Yale lawyer who died unmarried at the age of 39 of pneumonia.

Descendants

Through his son Charles, he was the grandfather of three, namely: Anita Ingersoll (1891–1970), who married Roger Medina Minton (1886–1954) in 1910, later divorced and she married stockbroker Walter Lee Gwynn (1881–1955), uncle of actor Fred Gwynne, in 1926; and Justine Ingersoll (d. 1984), who married Dr. Harold Sears Arnold (d. 1951).

Ingersoll family

Ingersoll was the son of Judge Jonathan Ingersoll (1747–1823) and Grace (née Isaacs) Ingersoll (1772–1850). His father was a judge of the Supreme Court and Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut up until his death in 1823. Among his siblings was older brother Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll, who served as a United States representative from Connecticut for four consecutive terms from 1825 to 1833, and was the United States Minister to the Russian Empire under President James K. Polk.

Ingersoll's maternal grandfather, and his brother's namesake, was Ralph Isaacs Jr., a Yale educated merchant who was prominent in New Haven and Branford, and his paternal grandfather was Reverend Jonathan Ingersoll, His grand-uncle's son, Jared Ingersoll, served as Attorney General of Pennsylvania and was the father of fellow United States Representative Charles Jared Ingersoll, and grandfather of his second cousin, author Edward Ingersoll. His cousin, Ralph Isaacs III, was the father of Mary Esther Malbone Isaacs, who married Chancellor and United States Senator Nathan Sanford in 1813.