sentences:  Ingersoll went to Hotchkiss School, graduated from Yale University's Sheffield Scientific School and became a mining engineer in California, Arizona and Mexico.In 1923 he went to New York with the intention of becoming a writer.He worked as a reporter for the "New York American" from 1923 to 1925, and then joined "The New Yorker" where he was managing editor from 1925 to 1930.