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  Thomas Ingersoll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Ingersoll (1749 – 1812) was born in Massachusetts and immigrated to Upper Canada (Ontario) following the American Revolution.
In 1793, he obtained a land grant of 66,000 acres (267 km²) in Oxford County from Governor John Graves Simcoe.
He is better known as the father of Laura Secord, who warned the British of an impending American attack on Upper Canada during the War of 1812.
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 Ingersoll, Ontario - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ingersoll (2001 population 11,000) is a town in Oxford County on the Thames River in southwestern Ontario, Canada.
The town was founded by Thomas Ingersoll (Laura Secord's father) as Oxford-on-the-Thames.
Ingersoll is the hometown of Canadian author David Manicom.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ingersoll,_Ontario   (141 words)

  
 Statue Unveiled in Ingersoll Town Centre
Saturday, August 26, 2000 - It was an historic moment for the residents of Ingersoll this morning as the long awaited statue of Thomas Ingersoll, founder of the town, was unveiled.
Thomas Ingersoll was born in Westfield in 1750; moved to Great Barrington, Mass.
One of their four children was Laura Ingersoll, who later became the heroine Laura Secord after the family moved to the Niagara District in Canada and she met her Captain.
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 Former NASA Assistant Administrator Joins Buchanan Ingersoll in DC: Ralph Thomas Moves to Firm's Government Contracts ...
Thomas was a staff sergeant in the United States Air Force from 1967 to 1971.
Thomas is admitted to practice before the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the United States Court of Military Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.
Thomas is the latest addition to Buchanan Ingersoll in a series of acquisitions and additions this year.
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 The Thomas Paine Society
The son of a Quaker father and an Anglican mother, Thomas Paine was born January 29, 1737, at Thetford in Norfork, England.
His father was a poor corset maker which gave Thomas no option beyond a free school where only a basic education was available.
Thomas Paine has yet to receive his due homage from the peoples and nations of the world.
www.thomaspainesociety.org   (442 words)

  
 Council for Secular Humanism
Ingersoll was a progressive and an advocate of many of the social reform movements of his day.
Ingersoll was born on August 11, 1833 in a modest frame house in Dresden, New York.
Ingersoll entered the public eye as an attorney in Peoria, Illinois; he was appointed that state's first Attorney General, but was never again appointed to any public office because of his controversial religious views.
www.secularhumanism.org /index.php?section=ingersoll&page=museum   (1504 words)

  
 Thomas Ingersoll by Harry Whitwell
The majority of the settlers that Thomas Ingersoll brought took up lots of 200 acres of the land at 6 pence per acre in the townships surrounding the village.
Major Ingersoll was a very aggressive man and eventually spent most of his fortune in the interests of the settlement.
However, before he left the village, Thomas Ingersoll and some friends with the help of Chief Joseph Brant (chief of the Six Nations) and some of his Indians, set off through the heavy bush to explore the lands west of the Grand River.
www.ocl.net /ingersoll/ingersoll.shtml   (822 words)

  
 Thomas Paine
This testament, by which the wealth of a marvelous brain, the love of a great and heroic heart were given to the world, was written in the presence of the scaffold, when the writer believed he was giving his last message to his fellow-men.
He found that the Federalists hated him with all their hearts because he believed in the rights of the people and was still true to the splendid principles advocated during the darkest days of the Revolution.
Thomas Paine had the courage, the sense, the heart, to denounce these horrors, these absurdities, these infinite infamies.
www.infidels.org /library/historical/robert_ingersoll/thomas_paine.html   (5521 words)

  
 History of Ingersoll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Thomas Ingersoll was born in Massachusetts and immigrated to Upper Canada (Ontario) following the American Revolution.
Ingersoll had the distinction of being Oxford's cheese capital in the mid 1800's to early 1900's, producing and packaging a good deal of the County's renowned cheddar.
Ingersoll is home to Ingersoll Paper Box (IPB), Sivaco, Collins and Aikman, Ingersoll Machine and Tool (IMT) and CAMI Automotive which assembles the new Chevrolet Equinox Sport Utility Vehicle.
www.town.ingersoll.on.ca /History.htm   (698 words)

  
 Ingersoll Family Genealogy
We have an Ingersoll book written on the Ingersolls and how the name supposedly was derived by Lillian Drake Avery and is with the Library of Congress.
Thomas Ingersoll Jr was born on 14 Apr 1628 and died after 1681.
His wife, Hester Ingersoll, was captured and was taken to Canada as a prisoner, where she died later in the year.
www.aritek.com /hartgen/htm/ingersoll.htm   (2337 words)

  
 On Thomas Paine
Born among the poor, where children are burdens; in a country where real liberty was unknown; where the privileges of class were guarded with infinite jealousy, and the rights of the individual trampled beneath the feet of priests and nobles; where to advocate justice was treason; where intellectual freedom was Infidelity.
About the beginning of the nineteenth century, a boy by the name of Thomas Aikenhead, was indicted and tried at Edinburgh for having denied the inspiration of the Scriptures, and for having, on several occasions, when cold, wished himself in hell that he might get warm.
Thomas Paine was one of the intellectual heroes -- one of the men to whom we are indebted.
www.infidels.org /library/historical/robert_ingersoll/on_thomas_paine.html   (7481 words)

  
 Search Results for "Ingersoll"
New Haven, Conn.; son of Jared Ingersoll (1722-81) and father of Charles Jared Ingersoll.
Named for Thomas Ingersoll, father of the Canadian heroine Laura Secord, it was the birthplace...
near Ingersoll, Ont. Born Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy, she was converted to Pentecostalism as a young girl and married...
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 Ingersoll and Religious Liberalism
Ingersoll was a pioneer and as a pioneer he did not close the door of discussion.
Against Ingersollism they held that a religious view of mortal existence did not depend upon faith in the biblical story of creation or stonewalling the proofs of evolution, in swallowing the myths of Jonah and the Whale and Noah's Ark, in being resigned to eternal perdition, in blinking the religious persecutions of history.
Ingersoll served in the Union Army, and the ashes of the Ingersolls are interred in Arlington Cemetery.
www.truthseeker.com /truth-seeker/1993archive/120_2/ts202h.html   (1663 words)

  
 Buchanan - News & Events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Before joining Buchanan Ingersoll, Thomas headed the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Washington, D.C., where he served as a member of NASA's senior management team and as the senior advocate for small-business utilization.
From 1985 to 1992, Thomas served as the executive director of the National Association of Minority Contractors, where he advocated on behalf of minority-owned construction firms before lawmaking bodies, government entities and the media.
Thomas is the latest addition to Buchanan Ingersoll in what has become a series of acquisitions and additions this year.
www.bipc.com /news.cfm?mode=article&article_id=1525   (488 words)

  
 OSU Department of History
Some of them provided tribal leadership in resisting the federal policy of Indian removal, which became law in 1830, a law white leaders intended, in part, to prevent more racial mixture of the kind the mixed bloods represented.
Professor Ingersoll is currently researching a work on New England towns during the American Revolution.
Ingersoll has published articles in William and Mary Quarterly, Law and History Review, and other journals.
history.osu.edu /people/person.cfm?ID=698   (322 words)

  
 Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Books
John INGERSOLL, 1778, was chosen to serve on a committee "to remonstrate to the General Court of the nakedness of the army and of the necessity of its being supplied with clothing and other necessaries, immediately.” He was born at Westfield, 1731, and died there, 1792.
Jonathan INGERSOLL (1747-1817), was captain of the sloop of war “Packett,” 1778, and of the “John,” 1779.
Thomas Kimball (1730-1805) commanded a company at the Lexington Alarm from Wenham, Mass., where he was born and died.
www.ingersoll.net /ing_dar.htm   (13413 words)

  
 Col. Thomas Hornor, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
March 17, 1767 - Col. Thomas Hornor was born at Mansfield, near Bordentown, south of Princeton, New Jersey U.S.A. - The Hornor’s were a Quaker family and Thomas attended with his parents the new Quaker Meeting House near Bordentown.
Thomas Hornor encouraged at the prospect of soon owning Blenheim Twp., as promised by John Simcoe if a saw and griss mill were built, purchased equipment at Albany, N.Y., hired millwrights and mostly by water traveled back to what is now Princeton, Ontario.
Thomas Hornor served in the Grand River Masonic Lodge # II as Senior Warden when Joseph Brant was Worshipful Master.
www2.magmacom.com /~ekipp/thornor.htm   (1600 words)

  
 The Book Your Church Doesn't Want You To Read
Robert Ingersoll, from the l9th century, wrote a chapter in support of equality for women, which was almost unthinkable back then, but now makes an interesting comparison to the ideas of Steve Allen.
One main point Ingersoll made was that women were seen as secondary to men, relegated to a virtual slavehood largely because of the Bible and its doctrines.
Thomas Paine lived during the American Revolution and was considered one of the most brilliant men alive.
www.truthseeker.com /truth-seeker/1993archive/120_6/ts206b.html   (922 words)

  
 Buchanan Ingersoll PC :: Tomarchio Accepts Position at U.S. Department of Homeland Security as Deputy Director of ...
Tomarchio will resign from Buchanan Ingersoll on January 9, 2006, and will be sworn in during a ceremony in Washington, D.C. In his new role he will help to build the intelligence capabilities of the DHS, and manage intelligence that could be useful to the country in defense against terrorism and other threats.
Jack Thomas Tomarchio is a shareholder in the Philadelphia office of Buchanan Ingersoll and co-chair of the firm's National Security Practice Group.
Buchanan Ingersoll PC is one of the largest law firms in the nation, and has nearly 415 attorneys and government relations professionals practicing throughout the United States, with offices in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Alexandria, New York, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Miami, Aventura, Tampa, Wilmington, Princeton, Cleveland, San Diego and Silicon Valley.
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 Canada's youth volunteer-service program - Katimavik
Ingersoll is located at the southernmost tip of Ontario in Oxford County, between the cities of St. Thomas and London.
It was named after Thomas Ingersoll, an American who settled in the region after the United States gained its independence.
His daughter, Laura Secord Ingersoll, became famous after she warned the British of an imminent American attack in 1812.
www.katimavik.org /ListePartenaire.asp?sMode=2&NumListe=245   (143 words)

  
 Positive Atheism's Big List of Robert Ingersoll Quotations
-- Robert Green Ingersoll, quoted from the Address, Ingersoll the Magnificent, delivered by Joseph Lewis on August 11th 1954 dedicating, as a Public Memorial, the house in which Robert G. Ingersoll was born, Dresden, Yates County, in the state of New York.
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I will, I could not produce a better scheme of life than now prevails, I would be ashamed of my efforts and consider my work a humiliating failure.
I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle and sings a lullaby to the dimpled darling, she will not be compelled to believe that ninety-nine chances in a hundred she is raising kindling wood for hell.
www.positiveatheism.org /hist/quotes/ingersoll.htm   (4401 words)

  
 REED, Thomas Brackett (1839-1902) Guide to Research Papers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Additionally, there is a set of microfiche, prepared in 1974 from an extensive collection of Thomas Brackett Reed material retained by the Reed family, containing speeches, diaries, manuscripts, and letters.
The letter from Thomas Brackett Reed to William D. Murphy, on March 11, 1891, grants William Murphy’s request.
In the letter, Thomas Brackett Reed declines to consider the office of vice president for the state of Maine.
bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=R000128   (555 words)

  
 Law.com: Buchanan Ingersoll Adds Lobbying Firm
The merger, which was in the works for close to a year and a half, will add eight lawyers and staff to the firm's Philadelphia and Washington offices.
Those are areas that Hill Solutions specializes in, and founding partners Jack Thomas Tomarchio and Eric J. Weinberg will serve as co-chairmen of Buchanan Ingersoll's National Security practice group in addition to their roles in the law firm's local and federal government relations, VanKirk said.
He will be aware of what it takes to merge these two companies from a lawyer's perspective and not just as a lobbyist, he said, which could make for a longer-lasting relationship.
www.law.com /jsp/law/LawArticleFriendly.jsp?id=1129107915599   (1183 words)

  
 Writing.Com: On Death-Bed Atheism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Thomas Paine, as you know, is generally regarded as a Deist as were Franklin and Jefferson, and not an atheist as defined by the by-godders (bigots) who were so uncertain of their faith they had to continuously foist it on others.
Ingersoll mentions Thomas Paine therein: "He (a reverend gentleman) tells us that the last hours are the grand testing hours.
Thomas Paine was a patriot - he was the first man in the world to write these words: 'THE FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATE OF AMERICAN.' He was the first man to convince the American people that they ought to separate themselves from Great Britain.
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 History News Network
Ralph Luker has called my attention to a reader response by Professor Thomas Ingersoll of Ohio State University in the newsletter of the OAH.
Ingersoll faults our article (co-authored with K.C. Johnson) “Consulting All Sides on 'Speech Codes'” published in a previous issue.
Ingersoll’s argument shows an unusually impoverished understanding of the importance of academic freedom.
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 Amardeep Singh: Susan Jacoby's Freethinkers; Robert Ingersoll, Thomas Paine, Abraham Lincoln
So far, I've read great chapters on the revolutionary period, Thomas Paine (who was more radical in his beliefs and in the manner of his life than I'd ever imagined), as well as Abraham Lincoln.
And that is that so many of the primary figures in her story are of arguable importance -- they were always a little less than fully respectable, even if they were able to command large audiences.
In 1892 Ingersoll gave a lovely eulogy for his friend Walt Whitman, whom, he said, ''accepted and absorbed all theories, all creeds, all religions, and believed in none.'' But this is a difficult stance to take, and few Americans have ever taken it.
www.lehigh.edu /~amsp/2004/07/susan-jacobys-freethinkers-robert.html   (1497 words)

  
 @ mile 11 -- St. Thomas Sub page 3
On July 12, 2003, The St. Thomas Central railway ran an excursion using Essex Terminal Railway #9 from St. Thomas to Ingersoll, via the St. Thomas sub.
It was part of a festival in Ingersoll.
It then proceeded around the wye and coupled to the rear of the train for the return to St Thomas with a happy photographer and 100 fans on board.
www.angelfire.com /retro/mile11/index3.html   (370 words)

  
 Chenoweth Other Surnamed [I]
Ingersoll, Harriet Ransom b: October 30, 1867 in Newark, Licking Co., OH [Arthur 7]
Ingersoll, Warren Christian b: June 28, 1866 in Newark, Licking Co., OH [Arthur 7]
Ingersoll, Warren Nye b: March 09, 1841 in Elyria, Lorain Co., OH [Arthur 6 (spouse)]
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 Accommodations Ingersoll Ontario - Ingersoll Hotels
Settled in Oxford County by Thomas Ingersoll in 1793, the settlement, named Oxford-on-the-Thames, was renamed Ingersoll by his son Charles in honour of father Thomas.
The famous Laura Secord Ingersoll, immortalized in Canadian history for warning the British of the impending American attack during the war of 1812, was Thomas Ingersoll's eldest daughter.
Ingersoll accommodations include a major chain hotel and a charming country inn offering relaxing spa facilities.
www.travelinontario.com /Ingersoll.cfm   (187 words)

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