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Mary G. Harris Jones (1837 (baptized) – November 30, 1930), known as Mother Jones from 1897 onward, was an Irish-born American labor organizer, former schoolteacher, and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist.
Mary Anissa Jones / ə ˈ n iː s ə / [a] (March 11, 1958 – August 28, 1976) was an American child actress known for her role as Buffy Davis on the CBS sitcom Family Affair, which ran from 1966 to 1971.
Mary Gardiner Jones (1920–2009), first woman to serve as a member of the Federal Trade Commission; Mary Harris Jones (1837–1930), known as Mother Jones, community organizer; Mary Jane Richardson Jones (1819–1909), American abolitionist and suffragist; Mary Letitia Jones (1865–1946), librarian and head of Los Angeles Public Library 1900-1905
Frances Jones Dandridge (August 6, 1710 – April 9, 1785) was the mother of Martha Washington, the first First Lady of the United States. She was born in New Kent County, Virginia . Her father Orlando Jones and maternal grandfather Colonel Gideon Macon served on the House of Burgesses in Colonial Virginia .
Illustration of Mary Jones (1897) [1] The story of Mary Jones and her Bible inspired the founding of the British and Foreign Bible Society.Mary Jones (16 December 1784 – 28 December 1864) was a Welsh girl who, at the age of fifteen, walked twenty-six miles barefoot across the countryside to buy a copy of the Welsh Bible from Thomas Charles because she did not have one. [2]
Death Defying Acts is a British-Australian 2007 supernatural romance film, directed by Gillian Armstrong, and starring Guy Pearce and Catherine Zeta-Jones. It concerns an episode in the life of Hungarian-American escapologist Harry Houdini at the height of his career in the 1920s.
Mary Cover Jones (September 1, 1897 – July 22, 1987) was an American developmental psychologist and a pioneer of behavior therapy, despite the field being heavily dominated by males throughout much of the 20th century. Joseph Wolpe dubbed her "the mother of behavior therapy" due to her famous study of Peter and development of desensitization. [1]
Mary Jane Richardson was born in 1819 in Memphis, Tennessee, [1] to a free black family; her parents were Elijah and Diza [a] Richardson. [3] [4] [5] Her father was a blacksmith, and her mother was a homemaker. [3] [6] Richardson was one of the middle children among nine born to the Richardsons between 1810 and 1845. [3]