Mary Harris Jones (1837–1930)
Author of Mother Jones Speaks: Speeches and Writings of a Working-Class Fighter
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Image credit: Copyright by Bertha Howell, 1902 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-47038)
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- Legal name
- Jones, Mary Harris
- Other names
- Jones, Mother
- Birthdate
- 1837-08-01
1830-05-01 - Date of death
- 1930-11-30
- Gender
- female
- Occupations
- labor organizer
lecturer
social reformer - Organizations
- Industrial Workers of the World (co-founder, 1905)
- Short biography
- Mary Harris Jones, who used the nickname "Mother Jones," became a union organizer and popular public speaker after losing her husband and children to a yellow fever epidemic and her dressmaking business to the Great Chicago Fire. She was once called "the most dangerous woman in America."
- Nationality
- Ireland (birth)
UK
USA - Places of residence
- Cork, Ireland
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA - Burial location
- Union Miners Cemetery, Mount Olive, Illinois
- Map Location
- USA
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