Eva Ingersoll Wakefield

Eva Ingersoll Brown Wakefield (1892 – 1 April 1970) was a writer, poet, freethinker, and an authority on the life of Robert G. Ingersoll, her grandfather.

Personal life Eva Ingersoll Brown Wakefield as a child in 1899, with her grandfather, Robert G. Ingersoll, and brother, Robert G. Ingersoll Brown. Eva Ingersoll Brown Wakefield was born in Dobbs Ferry, New York in 1892, the daughter of Walston H. and Eva Ingersoll Brown. Her mother, Eva Ingersoll Brown, was a suffragist and activist. She was tutored as a child, and later graduated from Columbia University.

In 1917, Brown married McNeal Swasey, but they later divorced. She married Sherman Day Wakefield, an author, editor, and bibliographer, in 1932. Maud Ingersoll Probasco. Eva Ingersoll Wakefield published The Life and Letters of Robert G. Ingersoll in 1951, and later donated a significant amount of 'Ingersolliana' to the Library of Congress, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, and other archives. As well as personal collections and copies of letters kept by her mother (Ingersoll's daughter) and aunt, Wakefield gathered correspondence from letters and journals, and from the collection of Harry Houdini. and later President of the New York Chapter of the American Humanist Association. which maintained the Robert Ingersoll Birthplace in Dresden, N.Y., as a museum. Sherman Day Wakefield died the following year.