Mary Harris Jones
Mary Harris Jones was an Irish-born American labor and community organizer. Died November 30, 1930, in Silver Spring. Awards include National Women's Hall of Fame and Labor Hall of Honor.
Facts
16 facts · 1 confirmed by two sources · 5 cited · 10 from one source
Where this comes from
Papalocal keeps its own record. It started from these sources; what each one said is kept here as it was copied, so a change on their side never changes this page by itself. Tap one to read its version.
What Wikidata says · copied November 13, 2026 · revision 2567479426
- Described as
- Irish-born American labor and community organizer (1837–1930)
- Other names
- Mary Harris, Mother Jones
- Died
- November 30, 1930 · 2 references
- Born in
- Cork · 1 reference
- Died in
- Silver Spring · 1 reference
- Buried in
- Union Miners Cemetery
- Citizen of
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; United States
- Occupation
- teacher; trade unionist; human rights defender · 1 reference; writer · 1 reference; union organizer; community organizer
- Political party
- Social Democratic Party of America (1898–1901); Socialist Party of America (1901–)
- Awards
- National Women's Hall of Fame (1984) · 1 reference; Labor Hall of Honor (1992) · 1 reference
- Wikipedias with a page
- 72
Wikidata item Q107082 (wikidata.org/wiki/Q107082), public domain (CC0). Copied November 13, 2026.
What Wikipedia says · copied November 13, 2026 · revision 1385535650
Mary G. Harris Jones (baptized August 1, 1837 – November 30, 1930), known as Mother Jones from 1897 onward, was an Irish-American labor organizer, schoolteacher, and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist. She helped coordinate major strikes, secure bans on child labor, and co-founded the trade union Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
After Jones's husband and four children all died of yellow fever in 1867 and her dress shop was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, she became an organizer for the Knights of Labor and the United Mine Workers of America union. In 1902, she was called "the most dangerous woman in America" for her success in organizing miners and their families against the mine owners. In 1903, to protest the lax enforcement of the child labor laws in the Pennsylvania mines and silk mills, she organized a children's march from Philadelphia to the home of President Theodore Roosevelt in New York.
- Born, in its opening lines
- August 1, 1837
- Died, in its opening lines
- November 30, 1930
From the Wikipedia article “Mother Jones” (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Jones), by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Copied November 13, 2026; not changed.
Confirmed Two sources agree. Cited One source, and it names where it got it. One source One source, without a reference of its own. Sources disagree The sources disagree. We show the best-supported value and keep theirs below.
