Ida A. T. Arms (née, Taggard; August 27, 1856 – October 30, 1931) was an American missionary-educator and temperance leader.

Ida Almira Taggard was born at Northfield, Vermont, August 27, 1856.

Five of Ida's younger siblings, Wallace, Henry, Ella, Tinnie and Franky died as young children.

[1] At the age of 14, Arms taught school at Topsham, Maine, and in 1871, she held a teaching position near Chicago, Illinois.

They sailed to Chile, being under appointment as missionaries in the self-support" work of Bishop William Taylor of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

After another visit to the U.S. in 1915, to regain her health, she resumed missionary and temperance work in Chile the following year, with a change of location to Coquimbo.