Ida Whipple Benham

Ida Whipple Benham (January 8, 1849 – May 21, 1903) was a peace advocate.

Early life Ida Whipple was born in a farmhouse in Ledyard, Connecticut, on January 8, 1849. She was the daughter of Timothy Whipple (1821-1892) and Lucy Ann Geer (1825-1884), and came from a Quaker family.

She contributed poems to the New York Independent, the Chicago Advance, The Youth's Companion, St. Nicholas Magazine and other prominent periodicals.

Personal life Ida Whipple married on April 14, 1869, Elijah Bailey Benham, of Groton, Connecticut.

From 1886 to 1903 she lived at 7 Elm Street, Mystic, Connecticut. The house was built in 1866 for Rev. William H. Randall. It was a Greek Revival style. Randall was the grandson of Jedediah Randall, a wealthy Mystic merchant, and the son of William Pitt Randall, partner in a whaling firm and founder of the Reliance Machine Co.

She died on May 21, 1903, and is buried at Ledyard Union Cemetery, Ledyard, Connecticut.