Robert Sturgis Ingersoll (1891-1973)

He was frequently referred to as R. Sturgis Ingersoll. He was born in Philadelphia and educated at St. Paul's School and Princeton University (1914). He was called to the Pennsylvania Bar and two years after receiving an LL.B. from the University of Pennsylvania (1921) he became a senior partner in Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, specializing in civil law which included trusts, real estate and divorce cases. He was a director of two railroads, an insurance company, and the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team. He was a prominent art collector and a trustee of the Fairmount Park Art Association and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and President of the Philadelphia Art Museum. He was a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania and a director of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, the Philadelphia Zoological Association, and he founded the Philadelphia Herpetological Society. He was Pennsylvania Chairman of the Democratic Victory Fund Campaign (1932) and lived at Penllyn where he and his wife developed a magnificent sculpture garden. He had five children with his first wife (listed).