Mother Jones - The Miners'
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Mother Jones Mary Harris Jones - usually just called Mother Jones - was the most remarkable woman in the labor union movement in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Mother Jones was born in Ireland in the 1830s, but her family moved to Canada when she was a child, and later to the U.S. She was briefly a teacher in Michigan, then moved to Memphis, Tennessee. There she married an iron worker, and had four children. Tragically, in 1867 her husband and her four children died in a yellow fever epidemic. She decided to devote the rest of her life to improving the lives of American workers - especially mine workers. |
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