Mother Jones Magazine
Born Mary Harris in Ireland, raised in Canada, a teacher in Michigan and
a dressmaker in Chicago, she married George Jones in 1861 and they had
four children. George Jones and all four children died in a yellow fever
epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1867. Mary Harris Jones then moved
to Chicago, where she became a dressmaker. She lost her home, shop and
belongings in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
A gradually growing interest in labor union issues and in radical
politics led her to become active by her late 50s as Mother Jones, a
white-haired radical labor organizer.
Mother Jones worked mainly with the United Mine Workers, where, among
other activities, she often organized strikers' wives.
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