She picketed the White House as a part of the Silent Sentinels, was arrested, and spent time in the Occoquan Workhouse.

Her grandfather was Samuel Delucenna Ingham, Treasury Secretary under President Andrew Jackson.

After the Women's Trade Union League established a branch in Philadelphia in 1915, she served on its advisory board and was one of its vice presidents.

She supported Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 United States presidential election, serving as vice chair of the Women of the Washington Party and assisting in the formation of the Progressive League of Philadelphia.

[2] Ingham worked for the securities firm William P. Bonbright & Co., serving as head of its women's department from 1915 to 1919.

[2] In 1917, she became chair of the Pennsylvania branch of the National Woman's Party, a women's suffrage organization founded by Alice Paul.

She was arrested alongside 15 other women and served three days of a sixty-day sentence in the Occoquan Workhouse.