until he resigned and left his post on July 1, 1848. He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1848. He again engaged in the practice of law and was Mayors of New Haven in 1851. Personal life In 1814, Ingersoll married Margaret Catharine Eleanora Van den Heuvel (1790–1878). Margaret was the daughter of Charlotte Augusta (née Apthorp) and Jan Cornelis Van den Heuvel, the former governor of the Dutch province of Demerara from 1765 to 1770 who later moved to New York. Her maternal grandfather was prominent New York landowner Charles Ward Apthorp and her siblings included younger sisters, Maria Eliza van den Heuvel, who married John Church Hamilton (son of U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton), and Susan Augusta Van den Heuvel, the mother of Charlotte Augusta Gibbes, wife of John Jacob Astor III, from her marriage to Thomas Stanyarne Gibbes II. Together, Ralph and Margaret were the parents of seven children: John Van den Heuvel Ingersoll (1815–1846), a Yale educated lawyer who edited a political paper in Ohio and served as secretary of the Indian Commission. He drowned during a fishing excursion on Lake Erie. Ralph Apthorp Ingersoll Colin Macrae Ingersoll (1819–1903), who was also a member of Congress from Connecticut from 1851 to 1855. He married Julia Harriet Pratt, the daughter of U.S. Representative Zadock Pratt. Charles Roberts Ingersoll (1821–1903), who served as Governor of Connecticut from 1873 to 1877. He married Virginia Gregory, the daughter of Admiral Francis Gregory. Grace Suzette Ingersoll (1823–1904) William Adrian Ingersoll (1825–1865), a paymaster with the U.S. Navy. Justine Henrietta Ingersoll (1827–1832), who died young. Ingersoll died in New Haven on August 26, 1872 and was buried in Grove Street Cemetery. References External links The Inventory of the Ralph Ingersoll Collection #113 at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University. 1789 births 1872 deaths Lawyers from New Haven, Connecticut Ingersoll family American people of English descent Toleration Party politicians National Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut Ambassadors of the United States to Russia 19th-century American diplomats Members of the Connecticut House of Representatives Mayors of New Haven, Connecticut Connecticut lawyers Yale College alumni Burials at Grove Street Cemetery 19th-century American lawyers