Biography
Mary Ingham was a Philadelphia suffragist arrested on July 14, 1917 for picketing the Wilson White House for woman suffrage. She received a nominal sixty-day sentence at the Occoquan Workhouse and was pardoned by President Wilson after three days.
Stevens records Ingham’s Bryn Mawr education, Pennsylvania National Woman’s Party chairmanship and service as secretary of the National Progressive League in 1912. The entry also identifies her roles with the Pennsylvania Women’s Trade Union League, Philadelphia’s Bureau of Municipal Research and Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, and her management of the women’s department at investment brokers Bonbright and Company.
Inez Haynes Irwin records that on January 31, 1919 Mary Nolan was arrested at a suffrage watchfire demonstration with Mary Ingham and Annie Arniel. Nolan was discharged by the court. Ingham and Arniel were held in jail for two days before being brought to trial, then freed because there were no witnesses against them. Irwin describes this pretrial detention separately from the five-day sentences imposed at other watchfire demonstrations. Inez Haynes Irwin, The Story of the Woman’s Party (1921), printed page 401.
