page_title: Mary Bigelow Ingham
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Mary Bigelow Ingham / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Mrs. Mary (Janes) Ingham, in 1896, then of Cleveland, Ohio
context_page_description: Mary Bigelow Ingham was an American author, educator, and religious worker. Dedicated to teaching, missionary work, and temperance reform, she served as professor of French and belles-lettres in the Ohio Wesleyan College; presided over and addressed the first public meeting ever held in Cleveland conducted exclusively by religious women; co-founded the Western Reserve School of Design; and was a charter member of the order of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
context_section_description: Her husband, William, was a bookseller and the senior member of a Cleveland-based publishing business, Ingham & Bragg. It became Ingham, Clarke & Co. in 1872, and their son, P.M. Ingham, was a part of that house. She continued with her religious and missionary activities after relocation to Los Angeles in 1908, and died 17 November 1923.
caption: Mary Ingham, 1896.
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