marry+harris+jones



Marry Harris Jones came to America as an Irish immigrant. Both her husband and her four children died in a yellow fever epidemic in Tennessee in 1867. She appealed to the Knights of Labor for assistance after she lost her dressmaking business in the great Chicago fire and started to look back on her laborer husband. Her work with many labor unions earned her the name "Mother Jones".

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