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Mabel Satterlee ingalls

Biography
Ingalls was the granddaughter of J. P. Morgan.

In 1929 she went to Russia with Mary V. R. Thayer. Thayer and Ingalls traveled with the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce, which they joined after a tour run by the Chamber passed by them in Berlin. After two weeks with the tour group, the two left it and spent two weeks traveling in the Caucasus. Ingalls and Margaret Carson Hubbard visited Africa in 1936. She graduated from Barnard College and Radcliffe College before she graduated in 1937 from from Columbia University with a PhD in bacteriology and immunology.

In 1947 Ingalls purchased Sotterley plantation and thirteen years later donated it to a foundation so the plantation could be opened to the public.

She taught at Albany Medical College from 1936 to 1943 and from 1958 to 1964 at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

Ingalls was on Goodwill Industries' founding board, a fellow of the Pierpont Morgan Library, member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and worked as a liason between the World Health Organization and United Nations. In the latter responsibility, she surveyed public health services in developing countries.

In her later years, Ingalls was J. P. Morgan's last living grandchild and owned the Duchess of Devonshire by Thomas Gainsborough.

Ingalls died on December 28, 1993.