Background
Ingersoll, Ebon Clark was born on December 12, 1831 in Dresden, New York, United States.
Ingersoll, Ebon Clark was born on December 12, 1831 in Dresden, New York, United States.
He studied law.
Born in Dresden, New York, Ingersoll moved to Wisconsin Territory in 1843 and subsequently to Illinois. He pursued classical studies in Peoria, Illinois, and in Paducah, Kentucky. He was admitted to the bar in 1854 and commenced practice in Peoria, Illinois.
Ingersoll was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Owen Lovejoy.
He was reelected to the Thirty-ninth, Fortieth, and Forty-first Congresses and served from May 20, 1864, to March 3, 1871. He served as chairman of the Committee on District of Columbia (Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses), Committee on Roads and Canals (Forty-first Congress), Committee on Railways and Canals (Forty-first Congress).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1870 to the Forty-second Congress. He settled in Washington, District of Columbia, and engaged in the practice of law until his death there on May 31, 1879.
He was interred in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Ingersoll had a son, John Carter Ingersoll, who served as the American Counsel in Carthagena, Columbia. He died in Colon, Columbia, in 1903.
He served as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives in 1856.