Colin M. Ingersoll

Colin Macrae Ingersoll (March 11, 1819 – September 13, 1903) was a Connecticut attorney, politician, and military leader. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for two terms in the 1850s.

Early life Ingersoll was born in New Haven, Connecticut on March 11, 1819, to diplomat and U.S. Representative Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll and Margaret (née Van den Heuvel) Ingersoll. His brother was Charles Roberts Ingersoll, who served as the 47th Governor of Connecticut. His maternal grandfather was Jan Cornelis Van den Heuvel, a Dutch born plantation owner and politician who served as governor of the Dutch province of Demerara from 1765 to 1770 and later became a merchant in New York City with the Dutch West India Company.

He pursued academic studies in New Haven, and graduated from Trinity College in 1839. Ingersoll was a founding member of the Phi Kappa Society while an undergraduate. This secret society would later become the school’s current chapter of the Alpha Delta Phi. He graduated from Yale Law School, was admitted to the bar in 1841, and practiced in New Haven. He was interred in New Haven's Grove Street Cemetery.