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Populist politician turned theorist, Ignatius L. Donnelly based his book, “Atlantis: The Antediluvian World,” largely on the idea that all advanced ancient civilizations were descended from ...

The Secret History of Donnelly. Clip: Season 12 Episode 13 | 16m 39s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Learn about the history and the life of Donnelly, Minnesota's namesake Ignatius Donnelly.

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 22. -- The marriage of Miss Marion Olive Hansen to Ignatius Donnelly was solemnized to-day in the Norwegian Methodist Church of the Bride.

He was a real estate developer turned Republican politician with plenty of bravado and a comb-over hairdo. "I have already acquired a large fortune," Ignatius Donnelly said in 1857, at the ripe ...

In early 1857, a Philadelphia-born lawyer named Ignatius Donnelly stood in the center of a small Minnesota town called Nininger City he’d helped found on the Mississippi River banks, surrounded ...