Mother Jones AKA Mary Harris Jones
Born: 1-Aug-1837 [1] Birthplace: Cork, Ireland Died: 30-Nov-1930 Location of death: Silver Spring, MD Cause of death: Natural Causes Remains: Buried, Union Miners Cemetery, Mount Olive, IL
Gender: Female Religion: Roman Catholic Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Activist Nationality: United States Executive summary: The grandmother of all agitators [1] Mary Jones maintained that she was born on 1-May-1830, an altogether too auspicious birthday for a labor organizer.
Father: Richard Harris (farmer) Mother: Helen Harris Brother: William Richard Harris (priest, educator) Husband: George E. Jones (iron molder, m. 1861, d. 1867, of yellow fever along with their four children)
Knights of Labor (joined 1871) Industrial Workers of the World (founding member) House Arrest (1913) Conspiracy (to commit murder, 1913) Trespassing (arrested twice, 1913) Irish Ancestry
Author of books:
The Autobiography of Mother Jones (1925)
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