Andrei Ipsen was born in Russia in 1892 to Ignace and Olga Ipsen. He later immigrated to the United States, first settling in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and later in Essex County, Massachusetts. Mr. Ipsen was very well educated; he spoke Russian, Polish, and German, and could also read and translate Greek and Latin.
Mr. Ipsen was incarcerated at the Massachusetts State Prison when authorities executed him by electrocution on March 7, 1911, at age 19.
