{"product_id":"john-hall-condolence-letter-on-death-of-treasury-secretary-samuel-d-ingham-s-daughter-1883","title":"c1863-83 Ingram family documents","description":"\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1- A moving autograph condolence letter signed by John Hall,\u003c\/strong\u003e longtime pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Trenton, concerning the death of \u003cstrong\u003eMary Louisa Ingham Emerson\u003c\/strong\u003e, daughter of President Andrew Jackson’s Secretary of the Treasury, Samuel D. Ingham.\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten from Monroe County, Pennsylvania, on September 25, 1883—nine days after Mary’s death in Germany—the letter is addressed to her brother-in-law, George Hale. Hall explains that he learned of Mary’s death from a member of the Ingham family and had written to her husband, the Edwin Emerson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHall recalls his unusually close pastoral relationship with Mary, including receiving her into church communion and performing her marriage:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Her long absence has not diminished the affection I felt for her at our first acquaintance—than receiving her to the communion, than marrying her.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe describes receiving “a sweet note from her” only a few months earlier and offers heartfelt consolation to the Hale family:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Mrs. Hale has had to part from an incomparably lovely sister … but surely her change is among the most hopeful.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMary Louisa Ingham Emerson was the daughter of \u003cstrong\u003eSamuel Delucenna Ingham\u003c\/strong\u003e, Pennsylvania congressman and United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1829 to 1831. She married Edwin Emerson in a ceremony performed by John Hall. Their accomplished family lived and traveled extensively in Europe; their papers are now preserved by the New York Public Library.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Hall was born in Philadelphia in 1806, practiced law and later entered the Presbyterian ministry. In 1841 he became pastor of Trenton’s First Presbyterian Church, where he served for more than four decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn intimate and historically identifiable letter joining the Hall, Ingham, Hale and Emerson families, with direct associations to the Jackson administration and nineteenth-century American Presbyterian history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWriter:\u003c\/strong\u003e John Hall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRecipient:\u003c\/strong\u003e George Hale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 25, 1883\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlace:\u003c\/strong\u003e Monroe County, Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSubject:\u003c\/strong\u003e Death of Mary Louisa Ingham Emerson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e One folded sheet; approximately three manuscript pages plus postscript\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSigned:\u003c\/strong\u003e “John Hall”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Original folds, moderate toning, scattered discoloration, minor edge wear and one small puncture; writing and signature remain clear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2-An original Civil War-era manuscript memorial resolution adopted by the managers of the Ladies’ General Aid Association of New Jersey, at Trenton, following the death of its president, Mrs. Samuel D. Ingham—Deborah Hall Ingham, widow of President Andrew Jackson’s Secretary of the Treasury.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe document is headed:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the Monthly Meeting Nov. 10,\u003cbr\u003eof the Managers of the General Aid\u003cbr\u003eAssociation the following expressions re-\u003cbr\u003egarding the late president were adopted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe deceased is called “Mrs. S. D. Ingraham” in the body—an apparent clerical expansion of the name—but the exterior docket correctly identifies the subject as \u003cstrong\u003eMrs. S. D. Ingham\u003c\/strong\u003e and the organization as the “Trenton Ladies’ Aid.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe New Jersey State Archives confirms that \u003cstrong\u003eMrs. S. D. Ingham was an officer of the Ladies’ General Aid Association of New Jersey\u003c\/strong\u003e. The surviving institutional records cover 1861–1865. \u003ca class=\"decorated-link\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.gov\/state\/archives\/guides\/pladi001.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com\"\u003eNew Jersey State Archives collection guide\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHistorical context\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Ladies’ General Aid Association was organized in Trenton on September 11, 1861, only months after the Civil War began. Its members collected and distributed:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClothing and blankets\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFood and hospital supplies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBed linens and bandages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMoney for Union soldiers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRelief for military hospitals\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAssistance for returned prisoners of war and veterans’ families\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe association raised approximately \u003cstrong\u003e$3,600\u003c\/strong\u003e and forwarded supplies to Union regiments, hospitals and a camp for returned prisoners in Wilmington, Delaware.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeborah Hall married Samuel D. Ingham in 1822. Ingham served in Congress and as Andrew Jackson’s Secretary of the Treasury from 1829 to 1831. Deborah had earlier participated in Washington society during the controversial \u003cstrong\u003ePetticoat Affair\u003c\/strong\u003e, in which several Cabinet wives refused to receive Secretary of War John Eaton’s wife, Margaret “Peggy” Eaton. Decades later, as this manuscript demonstrates, she occupied an important position in women’s organized Civil War relief work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePartial transcription\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the Monthly Meeting Nov. 10, of the Managers of the General Aid Association the following expressions regarding the late president were adopted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur President Mrs. S. D. Ingraham having recently been removed from us by death, we the Managers of the Ladies’ Aid Association hereby express our deep grief at the loss we have sustained in her decease, and take a sad pleasure in paying our tribute to her many virtues.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the death of Mrs. Ingraham we have lost a presiding officer, whose uniform urbanity and good judgment strengthened the bond of union by which we are associated; a fellow-laborer whose patriotism, zeal, liberality and industry have added greatly to the efficiency of our association in ministering to the wants of the sick and wounded soldiers of our country. Though we shall see her face no more, we will strive to emulate her sincere piety, her self-denying charity, her admirable talents and her unfaltering loyalty to God and her country.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur consolation in this bereavement is found in the sure hope that she has rested from her labors and is now enjoying the presence of her Saviour, whom she loved and served on earth; in whose presence is fullness of joy and at whose right hand there are pleasures forevermore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThus comforted, we bow with resignation to the will of our Heavenly Father “who doeth all things well.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo the afflicted family of Mrs. Ingraham, we tender our warmest sympathies and assure them of our earnest prayers that God will comfort and sanctify them under this sore bereavement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExterior docket:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eResolutions\u003cbr\u003eTrenton Ladies’ Aid\u003cbr\u003ein reference to\u003cbr\u003eMrs. S. D. Ingham\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSignificance\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is an unusually strong women’s Civil War home-front document because it combines:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Ladies’ General Aid Association of New Jersey\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRelief for sick and wounded Union soldiers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWomen’s wartime leadership\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe widow of a United States Treasury Secretary\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA participant in Jackson-era Washington society\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDirect association with the Ingham family represented in the preceding John Hall letter\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough unsigned, it appears to be an original contemporary secretarial manuscript of the adopted resolutions, rather than a later historical transcription.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDate\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe manuscript gives November 10 but omits the year. Because the organization operated from 1861 through 1865, it should conservatively be dated:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNovember 10, circa 1861–1865\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe precise year may be recoverable by comparing it with the association’s proceedings preserved by the New Jersey State Archives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCondition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOriginal horizontal and vertical folds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLight toning and minor scattered discoloration\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSmall separations or wear at several fold intersections\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMinor ink correction or offsetting on the second page\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEmbossed stationer’s device visible in the paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWriting remains dark, attractive and fully legible\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo major loss of manuscript text\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e3- 1831 French Industrial Academy Invitation to U.S. Treasury Secretary Samuel D. Ingham\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn imposing original 1831 transatlantic presentation letter inviting \u003cstrong\u003eSamuel D. Ingham, United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Andrew Jackson\u003c\/strong\u003e, to become an honorary member of the newly established Académie de l’Industrie Agricole, Manufacturière et Commerciale in Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDated April 11, 1831, the large document combines a dramatic engraved allegory of agriculture, manufacturing and the mechanical arts with printed Academy statutes and an extensive manuscript letter. It is signed by numerous officers of the institution, including its founder, economist and statistician \u003cstrong\u003eCésar Moreau of Marseille\u003c\/strong\u003e, and bears embossed institutional seals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFounded in Paris on December 26, 1830, the Academy sought to gather, compare and disseminate useful discoveries relating to agriculture, manufacturing, commerce, transportation and industrial technology. Its activities included publishing a journal, encouraging inventions and awarding medals for notable achievements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Academy informed Ingham that its officers had voted unanimously to offer him honorary membership. It emphasized that his acceptance would lend the young institution international prestige and constitute, “in the eyes of learned Europe,” one of its foremost distinctions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIngham was a Pennsylvania congressman, manufacturer and advocate of American economic development who served as Treasury Secretary from 1829 until June 1831. The Academy’s approach was particularly appropriate because questions of tariffs, manufacturing, banking, commerce and internal improvements occupied a central place in Treasury policy during his tenure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe exterior address panel directs the document to:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis Excellency S. D. Ingham\u003cbr\u003eSecretary of the Treasury of the United States\u003cbr\u003eWashington\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIssued only months after the Academy’s founding and while Ingham remained in Andrew Jackson’s Cabinet, this is a compelling artifact of early industrial internationalism and Franco-American commercial relations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe document is not signed by Ingham; it is an original incoming presentation letter addressed to him and signed by the Academy’s officers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 11, 1831\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOrigin:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paris, France\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRecipient:\u003c\/strong\u003e Samuel D. Ingham, Secretary of the Treasury\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInstitution:\u003c\/strong\u003e Académie de l’Industrie Agricole, Manufacturière et Commerciale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSignatures:\u003c\/strong\u003e Numerous Academy administrators, including César Moreau\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Large engraved and manuscript broadside-letter with printed statutes, embossed seals and integral address panel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Numerous folds with considerable splitting, holes and paper loss along the central fold; edge tears, creasing, toning and scattered stains. Most text, the engraved heading, signatures, seals and address remain legible. 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