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{{Short description|American temperance activist (1848-1918)}}
[[File:ELIZA B. INGALLS A woman of the century (page 420 crop).jpg|thumb|Eliza Buckley Ingalls, "A woman of the century"]]
'''Eliza Buckley Ingalls''' (August 24, 1848 – February 9, 1918) was an American temperance activist. Active in local and national activities of the [[Woman's Christian Temperance Union]] (WCTU), for twenty-seven years (1891-1918), Ingalls served as president of the federated white ribbon unions of [[St. Louis]];{{sfn|National Woman's Christian Temperance Union|1918|p=50}} and for twenty years, as superintendent of the national union's Anti-[[Narcotics]] Department.{{sfn|Willard|1995|p=402}}

==Early years==
Eliza ("Lide") Buckley was born at Cherry Hill Farm, {{convert|10|miles}} south of [[St. Louis, Missouri]], August 24, 1848,{{sfn|Cherrington|1926|p=1324}}{{sfn|Willard|1995|p=402}} where the early years of her life were spent.{{sfn|Willard|Livermore|1893|p=410}}

==Career==
In 1880, she married Fred H. Ingalls, a successful merchant in St. Louis, [[Missouri]].{{sfn|Willard|Livermore|1893|p=410}} 
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She was an active [[Temperance movement in the United States|temperance]] worker since she was a child, having joined the [[International Organisation of Good Templars|order of Good Templars]] when only fourteen years of age. She served as superintendent of the anti-narcotics department of the National WCTU.{{sfn|Woman's Christian Temperance Union|1908|p=27}} Her special mission was the eradication of [[tobacco]] in all forms. She was assisted in her work by State superintendents, and the results were shown by the enactment of laws in nearly every [[U.S. state|State in the Union]] prohibiting the sale of tobacco to [[Minor (law)#United States|minors]].{{sfn|Willard|Livermore|1893|p=410}} She was determined and aggressive, holding to a strict accountability each one to whom a task was assigned. She served as vice-president of the Missouri W. C. T. U. when [[Clara Cleghorn Hoffman]] was its president and was long the National WCTU superintendent of Anti-Narcotics. Much of Missouri's legislation upon the subject was due to her efforts. Contemporaries whom she entertained at her home included [[Frances E. Willard]], [[Lady Henry Somerset]], and [[Anna A. Gordon]].{{sfn|National Woman's Christian Temperance Union|1918|p=50}}  
[[File:Eliza Buckley Ingalls.png|thumb|Eliza Buckley Ingalls]]
Her last message to the women of the St. Louis WCTU, a few days before she died, was typical of her nature: "Give the women my love and tell them to push on." Ingalls died February 9, 1918,{{sfn|Cherrington|1926|p=1324}} after a continued illness of almost three years.{{sfn|National Woman's Christian Temperance Union|1918|p=50}}

==References==
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===Attribution===
* {{Source-attribution| {{cite book|author=National Woman's Christian Temperance Union|title=[[The Union Signal]]: A Journal of Social Welfare|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pkQ2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA50|edition=Public domain|volume=45-46|year=1918|publisher=National Woman's Christian Temperance Union|chapter=Mrs. Eliza B. Ingalls, for Many Years a National Worker, Summoned Home, by Nellie G. Burger}} }}
* {{Source-attribution| {{cite book|last1=Willard|first1=Frances Elizabeth|last2=Livermore|first2=Mary Ashton Rice|title=A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_zXEEAAAAYAAJ|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_zXEEAAAAYAAJ/page/n414 410]|edition=Public domain|year=1893|publisher=Moulton}} }}
* {{Source-attribution| {{cite book|author=Woman's Christian Temperance Union|title=Report of ... Annual Convention of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gj02AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA27|edition=Public domain|volume=35, Parts 1908-1909|year=1908|publisher=Woman's Temperance Publishing Association}} }}

===Bibliography===
* {{cite book|last=Cherrington|first=Ernest Hurst|title=Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=McQcAAAAIAAJ|year=1926|publisher=American Issue Publishing Company}}
* {{cite book|last=Tate|first=Cassandra|title=Cigarette Wars: The Triumph of the Little White Slaver|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JBP5VXeX1aIC&pg=PA31|date=June 2000|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-514061-3}}
* {{cite book|last=Willard|first=Frances Elizabeth|title=Writing Out My Heart: Selections from the Journal of Frances E. Willard, 1855-96|url=https://archive.org/details/writingoutmyhear0000will|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/writingoutmyhear0000will/page/402 402]|year=1995|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-02139-8}}

==External links==
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Eliza Buckley Ingalls}}

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