Edward Duffield Ingraham (1793–1854)
In 1823 Bushrod Washington politely declined an invitation to stay at Ingraham's home in Philadelphia.
Edward Duffield Ingraham was born on 12 February 1793 in Philadelphia. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania, read law under Alexander James Dallas, and established a successful practice. A noted bibliophile, Ingraham published several books, including an edition of Emer de Vattel’s The Law of Nations. He was also a director of the Second Bank of the United States (1834–36) and a commissioner under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
"Ingraham, Edward Duncan," in James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, eds., Appletons’ Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 1600–1689, Volume III: Grinnell–Lockwood (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898), 350–51.
William Duane, ed., Singular Surnames Collected by the Late Edward D. Ingraham, Esq. (Philadelphia: John Campbell & Son, 1873), 3–7.
The Liberator (Boston), 24 November 1854, page 2, columns 1–2 (Newspapers.com).
Mary Gore Wilson in Smith Family Tree (Ancestry.com).
Caroline B. Ingraham in 1850 U.S. Federal Census (Ancestry.com).
Caroline S. Barney in Maryland, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1655–1850 (Ancestry.com).
Caroline Susan Barney at RootsWeb.
Edward Duffield Ingraham at FamilySearch.