Henry Atlee Ingram

Lawyer; born in Philadelphia, Feb. 8, 1858; son of Thomas Robinson Ingram and Caroline Eugenia Girard (Hempkill) Ingram. He was educated at Friends' Central School, Philadelphia; Hill School, Pottstown, Pa.; Hallowell High School, Philadelphia; Swarthmore College, and the University of Pennsylvania, Towne Scientific School; was a law student with Francis Rawle, Esq., and later with Charles Gibbons, Jr., Esq., of Philadelphia; and was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, with degree of LL.B. in 1881. Mr. Ingram married, July 27, 1899, at Saint Asaph's Church, Bala, Pa., Jennie Isabel Bell, and they have three children: Henry Allison, Victor de Montbrun, and Arthur Girard. He was admitted to the bar of Philadelphia, 1881, and is a member of the bars of Supreme and Superior Courts of Pennsylvania, as well as the various lower courts, and of the United States Circuit and District Courts. He is actively engaged in the practice of law in Philadelphia; general counsel for the American Steel Corporation and its subsidiary companies; director of the Delaware and Lackawanna Steel Company. He is author of: The Life and Character of Stephen Girard, Manner and Merchant (1884), used in Girard College, Philadelphia; Jean Girard de Montbrun (1886); Illustrated Girard College. From time to time has contributed articles, prose and verse, to various standard publications, including a number of translations from the French. After extensive travel in Europe, the United States and Canada, he was in 1888 elected secretary of the Pennsylvania Club, later a member of its Board of Governors, and chairman of its Executive Committee. Mr. Ingram was a member of the Committee which induced the late Mr. Blaine to reconsider his determination not to enter the State of Pennsylvania, in the celebrated State campaign of 1890. Mr. Ingram was president of The Franklin Scientific Society of the University of Pennsylvania, 1876. He is a member of the Union League of Philadelphia; of The Law Association; and of the Corinthian Lodge No. 308, F. and A.M. Address: Fairacre, Cynwd, Montgomery County, Pa.

Source: John W. Leonard. Who's Who in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries, 2nd ed. New York: L.R. Hamersly & Co., 1908, pp. 387-388.

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