Melville Ezra Ingalls (1842–1914) was a Massachusetts state legislator who went on to become the president of the Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Lafayette Railroad . The railroad became part of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (the Big Four Railroad), and Ingalls served as president of that railroad as well.

References

• Indiana Historical Society, Melville E. Ingalls: Biographical sketch. Retrieved February 15 2005.