Ida Whipple Benham

Ida Whipple Benham, peace advocate, born in a farmhouse in Ledyard, Conn., January 9, 1849. She is a daughter of Timothy and Lucy Ann Geer Whipple, and comes from a Quaker family. At an early age she began to write verses. At the age of thirteen years she taught a country school. She was married April 14, 1869, to Elijah B. Benham, of Groton, Conn. She was early made familiar with the reforms advocated by the Quakers, such as temperance, anti-slavery, and the abolition of war. She has lectured on peace and temperance. She was a director fo the American Peace Society, and a member of the executive committee of theUniversal Peace Union. She takes a conspicuous part in the large pece conventions held annually in Mystic, Conn., and she held a monthly peace meeting in her own home in Msytic. She has contributed pomes to the New York "Independent," the Chicago "Advance," the "Youth's Companion," "St.Nicholas" and other prominent periodicals.

American Women: fifteen hundred biographies, with over 1,400 photos: a comprehensive encyclopedia of the lives and achievements of American women during the nineteenth century (Rev. ed.) by Frances E. Willard an Mary A Livermore (New York/Chicago/Springfield, OH: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1897