INGERSOLL, Albert M.

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Albert Mills Ingersoll (1857-1954)


INGERSOLL, Albert “Bert” Mills (1857-1954) was born at Ithaca New York on August 9, 1857 to Jared Otis Mills Ingersoll (1823-1859) and Caroline E. Whiton Ingersoll (1830-1887), the youngest of three children. His father died when he was but a year old. As a child Ingersoll was fascinated by the outdoors and natural history. He began collecting eggs and rearing wildlife in his youth. In the 1880s he moved to California, living in East Oakland before moving to San Diego. Ingersoll collected in twenty-four counties of the state during his lifetime. A condor egg was in his collection.

Albert Ingersoll = [1904] Laura Isabel Stevens (1869-1958)

Ingersoll died on May 10, 1954 at the age of 96. He and his wife had been married for 50 years. He is buried in Greenwood Memorial Park, San Diego.


Ingersoll collected on:


BAJA CALIFORNIA ISLANDS





Island Collections~
ISLAND COLLECTOR INSTITUTION DATE NUMBER SPECIMEN
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 1885 WFVZ-72009 Fratercula cirrhata Eggs
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 11, 1885 WFVZ-181667 Lunda cirrhata Eggs
Farallon Islands Chester Barlow CM June 14, 1885 CM-E220 Phalacrocorax penicillatus Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll UF June 14, 1885 UF-930 Lunda cirrhata Eggs
Farallon Islands Chester Barlow NMNH June 14, 1885 USNM-B26437 Phalacrocorax penicillatus Birds
Farallon Islands Chester Barlow NMNH June 14, 1885 USNM-B26438 Phalacrocorax penicillatus Birds
Farallon Islands Chester Barlow NMNH June 14, 1885 USNM-B26448 Uria aalge Birds
Farallon Islands Chester Barlow WFVZ June 14, 1885 WFVZ-71450 Salpinctes obsoletus obsoletus Eggs
Farallon Islands Chester Barlow WFVZ June 14, 1885 WFVZ-76066 Oceanodroma homochroa Eggs
Farallon Islands Chester Barlow WFVZ June 14, 1885 WFVZ-9822 Phalacrocorax penicillatus Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 14, 1885 WFVZ-46110 Uria aalge Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 14, 1885 WFVZ-46111 Uria aalge Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 14, 1885 WFVZ-46112 Uria aalge Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 14, 1885 WFVZ-46113 Uria aalge Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 14, 1885 WFVZ-46114 Uria aalge Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 14, 1885 WFVZ-46115 Uria aalge Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll NMNH June 15, 1885 USNM-B26445 Fratercula cirrhata Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll NMNH June 15, 1885 USNM-B26449 Uria aalge Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll NMNH June 15, 1885 USNM-B26450 Uria aalge Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 15, 1885 WFVZ-365 Uria aalge Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 15, 1885 WFVZ-366 Uria aalge Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 15, 1885 WFVZ-367 Fratercula cirrhata Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 15, 1885 WFVZ-46013 Uria aalge Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 15, 1885 WFVZ-46079 Uria aalge Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 15, 1885 WFVZ-46080 Uria aalge Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 15, 1885 WFVZ-46081 Uria aalge Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 15, 1885 WFVZ-46082 Uria aalge Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 15, 1885 WFVZ-46083 Uria aalge Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 15, 1885 WFVZ-46084 Uria aalge Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 15, 1885 WFVZ-46085 Uria aalge Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 15, 1885 WFVZ-46086 Uria aalge Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 15, 1885 WFVZ-46087 Uria aalge Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 15, 1885 WFVZ-46088 Uria aalge Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 15, 1885 WFVZ-46090 Uria aalge Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 15, 1885 WFVZ-46434 Lunda cirrhata Eggs
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 15, 1885 WFVZ-76128 Lunda cirrhata Eggs
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 15, 1885 WFVZ-76129 Lunda cirrhata Eggs
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 15, 1885 WFVZ-76130 Lunda cirrhata Eggs
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 15, 1885 WFVZ-76131 Lunda cirrhata Eggs
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 15, 1885 WFVZ-76132 Lunda cirrhata Eggs
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 15, 1885 WFVZ-200727 Uria aalge Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll NMNH June 16, 1885 USNM-B26446 Fratercula cirrhata Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll NMNH June 16, 1885 USNM-B27391 Fratercula cirrhata Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 16, 1885 WFVZ-45998 Lunda cirrhata Eggs
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 16, 1885 WFVZ-46051 Uria aalge Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 16, 1885 WFVZ-46117 Uria aalge Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 16, 1885 WFVZ-46118 Uria aalge Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 16, 1885 WFVZ-76121 Lunda cirrhata Eggs
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 16, 1885 WFVZ-76122 Lunda cirrhata Eggs
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 16, 1885 WFVZ-76127 Lunda cirrhata Eggs
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 16, 1885 WFVZ-47657 Uria aalge Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 16, 1885 WFVZ-138725 Lunda cirrhata Eggs
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 16, 1885 WFVZ-88927 Ptychoramphus aleuticus Eggs
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll NMNH June 17, 1885 USNM-B24402 Fratercula cirrhata Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll NMNH June 17, 1885 USNM-B26447 Fratercula cirrhata Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll NMNH June 17, 1885 USNM-B27354 Fratercula cirrhata Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll NMNH June 17, 1885 USNM-B27392 Fratercula cirrhata Birds
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 17, 1885 WFVZ-811 Larus occidentalis Eggs
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 17, 1885 WFVZ-46446 Lunda cirrhata Eggs
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 17, 1885 WFVZ-76123 Lunda cirrhata Eggs
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 17, 1885 WFVZ-76124 Lunda cirrhata Eggs
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 17, 1885 WFVZ-76125 Lunda cirrhata Eggs
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 17, 1885 WFVZ-76126 Lunda cirrhata Eggs
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 17, 1885 WFVZ-89339 Larus occidentalis Eggs
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 17, 1885 WFVZ-131842 Larus occidentalis Eggs
Farallon Islands Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ June 17, 1885 WFVZ-117848 Lunda cirrhata Eggs


ISLAND COLLECTOR INSTITUTION DATE NUMBER SPECIMEN
Islas Coronados Albert M. Ingersoll WFVZ April 4, 1895 WFVZ-203514 Pelecanus occidentalis Eggs




In the News~

January 15, 1910 [The Oologist 27(1) No. 270]: “While in California we had the pleasure of meeting A. M. Ingersoll, a well known bird student of San Diego, who with his wife was stopping at one of the leading Los Angeles hotels for the winter. Mr. Ingersoll is the second person with whom the editor of this publication ever arranged an exchange of eggs. Until this meeting in California, we had never seen Mr. Ingersoll, though had kept up a correspondence acquaintance with him for many years. It is a pleasure now to know that he is not only one of the leading oologists of the coast, and that he has perhaps the most complete collection of North American eggs existing on the coast, but also that he has by strict attention to business and legitimate means, accumulated a competence. He has now retired to enjoy the fruits of his industry and declining years. No doubt he will spend a large portion of his time in his favorite pursuit, the study of birds.”


March 3, 1925 Joseph Grinnell field notes: “...I am quite favorably impressed with the earnestness and general good judgement of Clinton G. Abbott, Director of the [San Diego] Museum here. He seems to have the confidence of many of the foremost business-men of the city. This noon he took me to the University Club to lunch, with Mr. Joseph W. Sefton, Jr., a banker. The latter is now President of the San Diego Society of Natural History and a good patron. Sunday evening I called on Mr. and Mrs. Albert M. Ingersoll and they invited over Mr. and Mrs. John Burnham. Ingersolls have a wonderful, well cared-for collection of birds' eggs, nearly all taken by himself during the past 40 years. And Burnham, a man of 58 or so and successful in real estate, emulates him. The latter, too, is treasurer of the San Diego society of Natural History. Burnham has a son, Gordon, in business with him, when I met. He has been into the San Pedro Martir section of Lower California, and through him and several others I have learned much of possible use as to how to get about among the people of that territory. This information I am writing to Lamb...”

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