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I. E. (Ingraham E.) Bill

1805–1891

A Canadian Baptist minister, journalist, and writer, he brought together religion, public life, and literature in 19th-century New Brunswick. His work includes history, poetry, and nonfiction shaped by decades of preaching and community leadership.

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The life of the departed : A sermon occasioned by the death of the Rev. Joseph Crandal, of Salsbury, preached in the Baptist chapel, Germain Street, city of St. John

The life of the departed : A sermon occasioned by the death of the Rev. Joseph Crandal, of Salsbury, preached in the Baptist chapel, Germain Street, city of St. John

by I. E. (Ingraham E.) Bill

About the author

Born in 1805 and dying in 1891, Ingraham Ebenezer Bill was a Canadian author, journalist, and Baptist minister associated with New Brunswick. Reference works identify him as a man whose career crossed several fields rather than staying in just one, which helps explain the range of subjects found in his writing.

Bill is especially linked with Baptist life in the Maritime provinces. He wrote works such as Fifty Years with the Baptist Ministers and Churches of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, reflecting his long involvement in church history and religious leadership, while other accounts also describe him as a poet and newspaper editor.

His background in ministry and journalism seems to have given his writing a practical, public-facing quality. Even now, he is remembered less as a single-book novelist than as a steady 19th-century voice in Canadian religious and literary culture.